Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #299 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 5
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: 28
  • Position: #123 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #1388 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #967 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #70 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #825 / 3880
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #206 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1258 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1349 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3531 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 541 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #109 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #489 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1213 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3153 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3488 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 1
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