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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: #5470 / 7410
  • Number of attempts: 1
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #31 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4798 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #441 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #23 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #692 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #821 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 6
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #63 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #23 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 3
Maze path - 48 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #6 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Greek Letters - 64 entries

Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 1521
  • Position: #25 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #92 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1125 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3157 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #472 / 1076
  • Number of attempts: 3
Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #27 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #88 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #642 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
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Just trying to get through life, one step at at a time! Airman in the United States Air Force

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