Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33940 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: #3369 / 7494
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10929 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #808 / 3089
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #627 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1229 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
Around the clock - 212 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: #56 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #29 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #157 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #861 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Around the clock - 212 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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