Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #37 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #2829 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #839 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 10
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #48 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2041 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 12
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #126 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1067 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #631 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #162 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #84 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3864 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #708 / 830
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #50 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 5
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