Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 30
  • Position: #5315 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2538 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1390 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #797 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #207 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #403 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1075 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 3
html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #63 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2874 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 220 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #62 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 258 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #69 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #133 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1882 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #151 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2405 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #350 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 1
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