Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #55 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #310 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 5
Subtraction - 201 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #39 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #460 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #94 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 5
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 262 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #96 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #21 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 5
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 148 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #57 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
Comparing scores - 129 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #17 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #255 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 12
  • Position: #169 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 5
Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #157 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #305 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #26 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #445 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #74 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 12
Letter case trickery - 1664 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #400 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 15
  • Position: #436 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #439 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #158 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #841 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1377 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #261 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 4
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