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: #260 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 19
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #310 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #334 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #531 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #447 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #796 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #244 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #433 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 9
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #94 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1018 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 3
lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #93 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #709 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #231 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3978 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #609 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 16
  • Position: #504 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #492 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3182 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #627 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2292 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #155 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1622 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13123 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1504 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7251 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #1499 / 1789
  • Number of attempts: 1
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