Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #1559 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #254 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #467 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #5 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #608 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #72 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 9
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 11
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #24 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1174 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #198 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #146 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #421 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 9
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #132 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: 29
  • Position: #47 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 9
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #397 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #805 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #244 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1332 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #950 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #554 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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