Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

New teacher - 1480 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #246 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #744 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2482 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #417 / 494
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 26
  • Position: #3756 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #989 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1106 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2599 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #798 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #672 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2192 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #623 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #501 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #534 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1374 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1438 / 1658
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3206 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1857 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2246 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #584 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3992 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1608 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3541 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #617 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3532 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1691 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 2
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