Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #370 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 25
  • Position: #3399 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #227 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #474 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #815 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 12
Aliases for cd - 913 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #144 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #772 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1875 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #362 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #741 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #590 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #924 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3015 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #619 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1213 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2444 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1806 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 10
Groups magic - 173 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #16 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 432 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #83 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1877 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 4
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