Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #3608 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4866 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #554 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #638 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 74 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #22 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8014 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1978 / 2154
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #83 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2246 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #849 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 3
Minimalist Limerick - 532 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #143 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #148 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1435 / 1762
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #359 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 905 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #192 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
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