Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33868 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: #5642 / 7475
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1043 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 20
Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #145 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #256 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1109 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #215 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3879 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #163 / 830
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1416 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #75 / 360
  • Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 13274 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1964 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #1503 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 5
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