Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4581 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #11 / 1118
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 18
  • Position: #35 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #242 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 22
  • Position: #2250 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #516 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6381 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #311 / 1558
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #694 / 3896
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1599 / 3090
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #822 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3970 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #127 / 903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7991 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #386 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1427 / 4238
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #568 / 2149
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1077 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1544 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1135 / 3981
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #184 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1912 / 3863
  • Number of attempts: 1
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