Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Reorganize Pokémon - 587 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #157 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to single level - 1501 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #100 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 6
Deleting text - 278 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #52 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #249 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quicksort - 2035 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #395 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #154 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 4
Find fix point of cos - 1426 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #224 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #270 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #340 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #327 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #170 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1814 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #228 / 392
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 24
  • Position: #3124 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #790 / 1275
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #441 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #794 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10891 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2091 / 3077
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #498 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #814 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1506 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #975 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #982 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1013 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1137 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #434 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1605 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #22 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1448 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1646 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #219 / 607
  • Number of attempts: 8
Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #305 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #9 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 11
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