Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Data reformat - 319 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 115
  • Position: #62 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 26
  • Position: #3728 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1169 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #882 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #259 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2613 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1072 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1276 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2246 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: #508 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2925 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2912 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #348 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
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