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: #3645 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #253 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1855 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #459 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #606 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #70 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #215 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #543 / 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: #2766 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1162 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8014 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #420 / 2154
  • Number of attempts: 8
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #402 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #396 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #258 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2679 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10752 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1331 / 3713
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2729 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #255 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #413 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #161 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #273 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #958 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1079 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #648 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #391 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #420 / 651
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #212 / 611
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 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: 27
  • Position: #399 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2863 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #1448 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 2
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