Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #255 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #5587 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2416 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #535 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1331 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #296 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove quotes after first field - 411 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #82 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #455 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3489 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #715 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3309 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 1
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