Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #681 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33927 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: 23
  • Position: #2840 / 7488
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #646 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1012 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1347 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #805 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #278 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #773 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3624 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #513 / 1178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3960 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #468 / 900
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1295 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #626 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #276 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #591 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3239 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #722 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1464 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #533 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 5
Test everything! - 187 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #40 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1142 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #437 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1624 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3185 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #953 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13001 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #28 / 3978
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2608 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #516 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #525 / 783
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1267 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 1
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