Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #18 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 30
  • Position: #5080 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #548 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2608 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #912 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1057 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #154 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #55 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3720 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #17 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2258 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #423 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #200 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 92 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #7 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #14 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 3
change parenthesis - 311 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #107 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #113 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #188 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove hard line breaks - 89 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: 31
  • Position: #37 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3150 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2743 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
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