Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Every other line - 1937 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 2474 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 1861 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 3313 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flip the bit - 51 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 102 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 195 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
snowflake fractal - 26 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 40
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3303 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1669 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 8769 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 263 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 1086 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 1568 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 935 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 1992 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9280 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 5615 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 3689 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 231 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 495 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 6
Almost encrypted - 164 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 10849 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 10641 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 9
Gray area - 614 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fun With The Diagonal - 79 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 4380 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 8
Increment each number - 258 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 22720 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: 2
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 11377 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 6
Count both ways - 854 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 822 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 43
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letterbox - 55 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 3921 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 285 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 2
Assign numbers to fields - 82 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 1187 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 190 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 191 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 5
simple format - 1749 entries

make it look better.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Number of attempts: 14
multiple cursor alternative - 975 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 15 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 612 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 126 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 5
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 33 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1248 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vim's not included features - 150 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Cool or not? - 195 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 15 entries

Clean and group.

Build a six - 126 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

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