Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: #2900 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1658 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2253 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #637 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #128 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2089 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #257 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1064 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 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #64 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1275 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7258 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #461 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 1
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