Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: #520 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #403 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1091 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #188 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #986 / 1662
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2216 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #467 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #741 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #569 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 5
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #149 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1298 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #203 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1722 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #426 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 18
  • Position: #969 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1552 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #454 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #377 / 785
  • Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #399 / 678
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #801 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #527 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #543 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #380 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #247 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 11
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