Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Missing Library and a Typo - 742 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2042 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2269 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 12896 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 5
Adam's challenge - 833 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 1379 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: 3
Cool or not? - 562 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 414 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 27235 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: 34
  • Number of attempts: 3
The D a n k Side of the Moon - 28 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 54
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 2192 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 4518 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Number of attempts: 4
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