Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4479 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #22 / 1097
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: 29
  • Position: #4961 / 7418
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #974 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18725 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #3775 / 3862
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10851 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #647 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #130 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1046 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 11
One to Ten - 2212 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: 12
  • Position: #59 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 3
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