Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 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: 39
  • Position: #210 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 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: 40
  • Position: #164 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #458 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 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: 43
  • Position: #206 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 30
  • Position: #5310 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #130 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1083 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #590 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1972 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #341 / 569
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4751 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1808 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #458 / 840
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2034 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1040 / 1144
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #704 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1644 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1036 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3072 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1182 / 1258
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #183 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #2059 / 2101
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2165 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #636 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #220 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1155 / 1186
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2348 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #862 / 1129
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3188 / 3667
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #634 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2730 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1583 / 1736
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1831 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1484 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 1
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