Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #194 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1081 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1002 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #24 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #107 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #229 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #32 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #239 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #44 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #83 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #140 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #822 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1500 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #266 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #321 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
Jonas Nockert
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Studies math in order to study computer science.

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