Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 23
  • Position: #2699 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #286 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #860 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3262 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 204 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #4 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #441 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #671 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #408 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #11 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #155 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #239 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract wireshark capture filter - 234 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #74 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #681 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #42 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #409 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2927 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #499 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 102 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #11 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2246 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #166 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 680 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #41 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 9
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #172 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 67 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 3
  • Position: #15 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #337 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove quotes after first field - 408 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #80 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #613 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 14
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3554 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1411 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 3
calculations - 321 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #52 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #1640 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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