Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 582 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #61 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 4
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #516 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #144 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #541 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 31
  • Position: #5743 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1312 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2814 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1617 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1584 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #481 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 4
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