Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #1816 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #79 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #461 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1046 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1105 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #144 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2863 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Join 'em - 252 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #72 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove quotes after first field - 386 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #55 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1873 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2485 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
Frank Harrison
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Entrepreneur past Global Head of Core at MPC/Technicolor. Worked on Lion King, NUKE, Crysis2 and Crysis1 Console as well as a few other games.

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