Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 102
  • Position: #21 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2125 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #272 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 4
Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #65 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4563 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #691 / 1113
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1012 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #233 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 736 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #80 / 312
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 304 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #50 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #191 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 3
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #141 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #214 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 32
  • Position: #5962 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #639 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3281 / 3878
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 884 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #212 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #255 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #306 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1160 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1411 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #401 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1956 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #391 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2328 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2411 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2751 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 4
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