Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #999 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2369 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #433 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #995 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #429 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #159 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #856 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 4
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #101 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #24 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #27 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #239 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #14 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #85 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #61 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #49 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #74 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1522 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 5
learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #68 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #538 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #212 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #167 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #343 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 16
  • Position: #613 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1441 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #102 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13101 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2125 / 3768
  • Number of attempts: 6
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