Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #221 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 16
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #821 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #414 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2052 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
underscore_to_camelCase - 197 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #66 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #693 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #43 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paragraph sort - 479 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #128 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #192 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #303 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2089 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 14
  • Position: #250 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2325 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1557 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 4
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