Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33868 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: #152 / 7475
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1006 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1092 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #91 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #450 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #7 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1173 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 176 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #42 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 132 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #11 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 143 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #31 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 326 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #100 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #44 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #798 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #275 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1501 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 2
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