Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33843 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: #73 / 7469
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6362 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #115 / 1553
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1397 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #387 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 339 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #30 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #28 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #73 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #243 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #118 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #779 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #597 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13245 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #367 / 3804
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7361 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #1676 / 1820
  • Number of attempts: 1
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