Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #1910 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1056 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #248 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1246 / 1637
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #289 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1443 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #183 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1067 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #504 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #362 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #226 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
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