Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 35
  • Position: #6625 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1235 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3038 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #573 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #750 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1039 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1435 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #216 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 161 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #28 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3850 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1248 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #2095 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2243 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #635 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #207 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #98 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #165 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #324 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #147 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: 58
  • Position: #229 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3537 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3321 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2479 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3392 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 1
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