Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: 26
  • Position: #3486 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #801 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1111 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2333 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #239 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 111 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #11 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #80 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 134 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: 7
  • Position: #77 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 146 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #22 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #100 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #53 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
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