Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #45 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4768 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #341 / 1580
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #222 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #631 / 1251
  • Number of attempts: 10
camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #86 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 5
readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #30 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #22 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 13
Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #118 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 228 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #13 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #149 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 3
Roman numerals - 68 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #6 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #91 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 7
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #27 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #14 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 8
120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 10
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 124 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 12
  • Position: #160 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #100 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #35 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #443 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #529 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #68 / 302
  • Number of attempts: 7
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 165 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #4 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 3
Word frequency alignment - 273 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #50 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 514 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #35 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 6
The Cake is a Lie - 1278 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #431 / 509
  • Number of attempts: 5
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