Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #89 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #224 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #493 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #1962 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #569 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1421 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #202 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1120 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #330 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #450 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #84 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #48 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #618 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #583 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 7
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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: 15
  • Position: #117 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #403 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #578 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 6
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