Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 908 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #214 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fill in the chess board - 980 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #124 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33981 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: 22
  • Position: #1675 / 7507
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #482 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #497 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #181 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1370 / 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: 13
  • Position: #123 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #145 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #248 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #26 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #87 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #244 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #119 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2821 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #214 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #161 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #443 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2249 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: 14
  • Position: #462 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 681 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: 15
  • Position: #103 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #75 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #66 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #102 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #66 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 6
move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #50 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #136 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 30
  • Position: #119 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #607 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #838 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2387 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1727 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 802 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #24 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #1785 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 6
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