Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #420 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33910 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: #4060 / 7486
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #249 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6375 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #961 / 1556
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18834 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2570 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1741 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #463 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10918 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2318 / 3086
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3624 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #781 / 1178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7967 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1112 / 1892
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11551 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3070 / 4233
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1796 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3011 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 5
Alphabet soup - 445 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #93 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 2
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