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: 32
  • Position: #5828 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1637 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #745 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #634 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2002 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 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: 14
  • Position: #166 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1503 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #239 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #916 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #285 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #204 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #594 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #571 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3106 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1506 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #876 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #1509 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
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