Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33972 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: #1518 / 7505
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
  • Position: #121 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #169 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1109 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Land of the Lost - 96 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #10 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 208 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: 27
  • Position: #31 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #57 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #245 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #59 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2099 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 14
  • Position: #331 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #653 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1452 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #866 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Land of the Lost - 96 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Not enough Ps - 74 entries

Different type of code

Kenny
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I use my computer to I write code and unfollow people.

entered into 14 challenges

contributed 2 challenges