Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: 38
  • Position: #7049 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #3706 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1430 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2022 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1061 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #1647 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #657 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1074 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #4006 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1189 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3939 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1034 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #543 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #3796 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
Timo Böhm
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Senior Consultant @btelligent. Interested in all things related to the deployment of #DataScience and #AI and the mysterious board game of #Go. 🤓

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