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: #212 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1106 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #368 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2045 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
  • Position: #63 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #689 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 5
lipsum lines - 315 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #46 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 359 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: 20
  • Position: #71 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #34 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #182 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1272 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #606 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2296 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
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