Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Box it - 5174 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 253 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple, Practical, and Common - 28338 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: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert Application Output to CSV - 135 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 13486 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2505 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 6
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 563 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 2457 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2241 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 645 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 15250 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 9989 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 11695 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 1566 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: 2
Cool or not? - 595 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 3
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