Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33649 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: 25
  • Position: #3344 / 7426
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10876 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #801 / 3069
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3592 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #619 / 1164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7909 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1219 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 3
Around the clock - 199 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: #55 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #27 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #154 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #860 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Around the clock - 199 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

Ari Sweedler
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