Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Bad Copy Syntax - 1864 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 5
change parenthesis - 221 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1037 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7490 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32487 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: 24
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15531 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 530 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
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