Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #2105 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #317 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #633 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 12
Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1377 / 3093
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #383 / 1182
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #311 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 12
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #747 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #225 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1363 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #583 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #544 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #474 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1391 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #281 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 7
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #214 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #63 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1498 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 14
  • Position: #338 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1096 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 7
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #107 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #601 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #257 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1892 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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