Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #45 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1143 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #76 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3961 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #242 / 843
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1446 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #118 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13432 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2961 / 3851
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7533 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #204 / 1852
  • Number of attempts: 4
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