Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Sort and Tag - 731 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 105
  • Position: #97 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #323 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 26
  • Position: #3736 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #281 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1331 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #623 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #443 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #961 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2003 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 2
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