Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Innocent Monster - 155 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 139
  • Position: #38 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1554 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #230 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 962 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #79 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 11
hello-world-vimgolf - 2311 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #72 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 828 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #19 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1797 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #432 / 486
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #1375 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #83 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1079 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #388 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2839 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #203 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 10
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #98 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #499 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #44 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #422 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 9
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #103 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #731 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #134 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #53 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #856 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #103 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 14
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1535 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1448 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 5
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