Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 24
  • Position: #2906 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #407 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1649 / 3896
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4840 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #394 / 1905
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #286 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5074 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #863 / 1653
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2243 / 4238
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #212 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #202 / 2149
  • Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 709 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #119 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #57 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array of characters - 192 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #8 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #191 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 5
A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #37 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4323 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #944 / 1195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1668 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #186 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #171 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #995 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2343 / 3981
  • Number of attempts: 6
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #11 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7550 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #580 / 1862
  • Number of attempts: 3
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