Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #272 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 4
Data reformat - 321 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #64 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 5
Capitalize the Names - 435 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #28 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 13
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: 22
  • Position: #1782 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #793 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 12
Right Align Part of the line - 154 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #17 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2551 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #699 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1149 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2321 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
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