Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #587 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #283 / 313
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #122 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 28
  • Position: #4318 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18799 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2450 / 3881
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1607 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2715 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #460 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 268 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #72 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #966 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #245 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1390 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
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Microbiologist, Molecular biologist. Science enthusiast. I draw on wikipedia too!

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