Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #217 / 1072
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33390 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #763 / 7365
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #418 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #111 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2393 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #434 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1425 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #380 / 630
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #396 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #669 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2840 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #43 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #575 / 695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #803 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #52 / 1258
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple addition - 310 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #90 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #64 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 4
Combines all items - 303 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #38 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 4
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #52 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #240 / 2101
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangle of arrows - 171 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #39 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #50 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #99 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #20 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2004 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #360 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #269 / 1186
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #511 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #189 / 1129
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1061 / 3667
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #268 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #893 / 1072
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2339 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1510 / 1736
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2803 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 2
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