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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: #3630 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #352 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #600 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #380 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #527 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2710 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #165 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 7
Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #183 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #135 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #384 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #855 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3161 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #655 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 1
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