Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #966 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 32
  • Position: #6040 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #259 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 15
  • Position: #996 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3137 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4864 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #761 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #493 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2361 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1020 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1455 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #204 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reorder the groups - 1199 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #261 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1144 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2767 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #646 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 7
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