Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4840 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1002 / 1905
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2386 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #681 / 762
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #661 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4096 / 4238
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #955 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #50 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1668 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #301 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fill visual area - 107 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #37 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #90 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 459 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #174 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 228 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #62 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3896 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #927 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3586 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #571 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3469 / 3981
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3144 / 3863
  • Number of attempts: 2
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