Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #97 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #741 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1995 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #37 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #209 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2606 / 3723
  • Number of attempts: 1
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