Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1484 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #368 / 483
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 908 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #135 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #117 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #199 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #465 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #842 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3019 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #156 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #705 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #760 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #587 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #88 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #47 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2741 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #185 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #497 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #405 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 9
move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #126 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #107 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1173 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2355 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #938 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1741 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 5
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Bioanalytical chemist interested in cells and molecules, preferably looking at them one by one; intrigued by both simplicity and complexity of nature

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