Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

RUST match with enum for Coin - 168 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #6 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #102 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: #2020 / 7308
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #9 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #68 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #623 / 3815
  • Number of attempts: 11
Quote modules - 1024 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #52 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 12
Aliases for cd - 820 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #7 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 18
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #203 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #37 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #90 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1204 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 9
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #152 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 11
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #703 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #699 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1325 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #805 / 2072
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2123 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #371 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #30 / 479
  • Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #966 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 12
quotes inside quotes - 3088 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #490 / 1060
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1764 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 3
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