Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #1684 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #483 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3255 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #26 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1372 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #127 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #593 / 1187
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #397 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #31 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #8 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #243 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 7
Letterbox - 162 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #7 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 8
Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #66 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1206 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #215 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #162 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #444 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2260 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: 12
  • Position: #69 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #104 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #131 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 892 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #103 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #125 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #51 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #137 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 12
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #121 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #412 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1854 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1367 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #974 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Convert Application Output to CSV - 233 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Parsa Amini
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Student, Phylanx and HPX developer at STE||AR Group

entered into 29 challenges

contributed 1 challenges