Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 23
  • Position: #2483 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1172 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1114 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #146 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #338 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2069 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #437 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #112 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #57 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #11 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #148 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1275 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #331 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #872 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #218 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1521 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #385 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1527 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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