Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #992 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #430 / 750
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #975 / 1604
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #428 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #159 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #848 / 1260
  • Number of attempts: 4
camel riding - 775 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #100 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 159 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: #23 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 302 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #26 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #238 / 442
  • 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 - 83 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #14 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #84 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 237 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 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #49 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #74 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1514 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 5
learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #68 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #536 / 1132
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #211 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #167 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #341 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #609 / 1073
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1430 / 3950
  • Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 366 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #96 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2048 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 6
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