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: 31
  • Position: #5471 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1208 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1779 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4063 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #122 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 35
  • Position: #84 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1972 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #4057 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1072 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3404 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #965 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 3
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