Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #473 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 28
  • Position: #4529 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1296 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #244 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1465 / 1915
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #664 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #257 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2917 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #597 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1193 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #200 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1592 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #382 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3667 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #403 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1805 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #336 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #376 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3402 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #732 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2473 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2759 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #509 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1551 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 2
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