Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 33
  • Position: #6250 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3672 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #561 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #737 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #239 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2849 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #447 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #687 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #621 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1697 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3873 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #266 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1847 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3372 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3539 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3683 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
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