Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #2740 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #68 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #560 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #594 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 9
Aliases for cd - 909 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #48 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #342 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10952 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1282 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #263 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 7
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #343 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2155 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #455 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 6
underscore_to_camelCase - 187 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 / 84
  • 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: #37 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #734 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 2
SQL to YAML - 58 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

  • Best score: 71
  • Best player score: 98
  • Position: #18 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #48 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #565 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #199 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2119 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #111 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1538 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #894 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #271 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 4
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