Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 24
  • Position: #2914 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1667 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2263 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #642 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #129 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2097 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #260 / 659
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1079 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #369 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 832 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #69 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1304 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #482 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 1
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