Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 632 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #49 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 6
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 725 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #161 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1091 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #137 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1058 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #99 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 23
  • Position: #2739 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 7
Get mail address from outlook format - 609 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #105 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6141 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #572 / 1500
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #812 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules - 1033 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #100 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #454 / 834
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1477 / 3030
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #255 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 13
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #770 / 1134
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #297 / 798
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #752 / 1853
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3595 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #954 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 1959 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #169 / 483
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1215 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 10
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2440 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1814 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 4
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