Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Mirror image - 123 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #21 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1423 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #205 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

  • Best score: 64
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #9 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 5
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 641 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #49 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 3
months to html list items - 1110 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #124 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quicksort - 2061 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: 24
  • Position: #249 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
Find fix point of cos - 1444 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: #232 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #274 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #230 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 5
delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #423 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #474 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 4
Plotting some variables in python - 1673 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #148 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #3135 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #384 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 2067 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #266 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1011 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #105 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #90 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13266 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2009 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7403 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #1041 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 1
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