Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #365 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #134 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #117 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
  • Position: #199 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #465 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
  • Position: #841 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3017 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #156 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #704 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #758 / 907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #587 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #88 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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: #46 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2739 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #185 / 594
  • 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 - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #405 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 9
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #125 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #106 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1173 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2354 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #937 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1734 / 3865
  • 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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