Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #4003 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1365 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #588 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #898 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #832 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #154 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1074 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #442 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #97 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #47 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #411 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #410 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1366 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #971 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #1780 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
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