Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 22
  • Position: #594 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #211 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #427 / 739
  • Number of attempts: 2
Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #9 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #67 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #135 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1108 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #33 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #18 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #217 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #25 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 7
swap or reverse - 110 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #15 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #47 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #162 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 3
Not enough Ps - 66 entries

Different type of code

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #14 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #83 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shuffled numbers - 228 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #60 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove hard line breaks - 64 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #17 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #560 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #544 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 1
Printable ASCII characters - 120 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #27 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1159 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 626 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #297 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1392 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 2
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