Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4360 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #308 / 1070
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 32
  • Position: #148 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1112 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #420 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 38
  • Position: #173 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #4925 / 7363
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3355 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1561 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #945 / 1144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #1661 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11358 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3841 / 4163
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2355 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 3
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