Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #57 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33778 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: #1478 / 7453
  • Number of attempts: 9
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #488 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18797 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2205 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1005 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 10
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #698 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 220 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #32 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11506 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2726 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1196 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1307 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1693 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #243 / 435
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13119 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1707 / 3773
  • Number of attempts: 4
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