Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2525 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #635 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 26
  • Position: #3594 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #912 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3211 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1871 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1982 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #169 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1384 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #412 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1247 / 1658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3609 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 126 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #38 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
underscore_to_camelCase - 187 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #81 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2246 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #633 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #984 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3278 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2288 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2961 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1670 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2743 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 3
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