Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1920 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #89 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1409 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #220 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #490 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33745 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 / 7448
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18777 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #569 / 3876
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1415 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2898 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #200 / 858
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1110 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #324 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3881 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #438 / 879
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #83 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #48 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #618 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #575 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 7
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 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: #114 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #395 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #578 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 6
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