Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: #223 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: #172 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #475 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: #214 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #5374 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #135 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1105 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #607 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1991 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #354 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1833 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #470 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2068 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1073 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #771 / 907
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1672 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1079 / 1658
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3087 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1200 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #189 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #2103 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2246 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: #657 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #232 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1165 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2378 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #870 / 1142
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3223 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3541 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #647 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2756 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1600 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1897 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1667 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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