Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 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: #222 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 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: #171 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #474 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: #213 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 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: #5362 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #134 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4656 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1100 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6362 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #604 / 1553
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18826 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1985 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #351 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4829 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1830 / 1902
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #468 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2063 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1069 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #760 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7961 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1666 / 1890
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5022 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1070 / 1636
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3082 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1196 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #188 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #2098 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2241 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: #655 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #231 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1163 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2368 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #869 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3216 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #646 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2753 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5093 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1596 / 1753
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13238 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1881 / 3801
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7342 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1628 / 1816
  • Number of attempts: 1
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