Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #258 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #596 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: 24
  • Position: #3102 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #297 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #632 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1228 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #299 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3604 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 307 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #40 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 3
Join 'em - 252 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #69 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #182 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
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