Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #53 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #253 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1946 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #42 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 15
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #408 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 12
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #647 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #30 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #65 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #114 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1052 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #92 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #235 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #770 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #595 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1496 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 2
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