Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #525 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 31
  • Position: #154 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: 29
  • Position: #4965 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1180 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1528 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1009 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3910 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #773 / 887
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1410 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3091 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1978 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 4
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