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: 27
  • Position: #3992 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #940 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2224 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #379 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
  • Position: #519 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #556 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #574 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1655 / 2153
  • 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: #143 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1418 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
  • Position: #2631 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
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