Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

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: 22
  • Position: #1372 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #741 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1050 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #220 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1312 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #720 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1013 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1116 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #303 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #602 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1781 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2093 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #432 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3529 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2455 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #2369 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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