Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 27
  • Position: #4040 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #473 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #260 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2293 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #743 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #53 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #974 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove dupes from array - 1360 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #236 / 337
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1852 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 4
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