Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: #2429 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 12
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6381 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #457 / 1558
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1349 / 3896
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #806 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #776 / 3090
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7991 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #823 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1520 / 4238
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #632 / 2149
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1144 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 13
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1626 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #29 / 3981
  • Number of attempts: 9
Braces or Brackets? - 1145 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #314 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3967 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #192 / 847
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2105 / 3863
  • Number of attempts: 14
Shunto J. Kobayashi
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