Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 27
  • Position: #3777 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #218 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #124 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #397 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #655 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 4
camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #28 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 5
swap or reverse - 132 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #23 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1693 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #171 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #576 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #734 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #572 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #392 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 5
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