Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #5305 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1339 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1884 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1866 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #971 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #216 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #581 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1006 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #4017 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #3823 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
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