Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #10 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #987 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 131 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: 6
  • Position: #24 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #138 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #376 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #917 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2308 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
Axel Forsman
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