Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #83 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 3
Capitalize the Names - 408 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #8 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #38 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #68 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: 22
  • Position: #988 / 7418
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #563 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18725 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #262 / 3862
  • Number of attempts: 10
Separate the lines - 182 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #31 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 3
Palindrome numbers - 29 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #4 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10851 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1451 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #334 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 7
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #36 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 8
From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #40 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #53 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #940 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 4
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #35 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #48 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 5
Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #39 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #6 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7904 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #297 / 2126
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #5 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #50 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #603 / 4179
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1152 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12930 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #802 / 3962
  • Number of attempts: 3
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