Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #89 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33910 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: 22
  • Position: #2399 / 7486
  • Number of attempts: 9
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6375 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1104 / 1556
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1503 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10918 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1782 / 3086
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7967 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #985 / 1892
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11551 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3207 / 4233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #623 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16106 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2753 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10718 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1610 / 3702
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5100 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1012 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 1
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