Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: #2910 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1662 / 3893
  • 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: #2259 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #638 / 1140
  • 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 - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2093 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #258 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 807 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: #66 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1294 / 3849
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7528 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #474 / 1851
  • Number of attempts: 1
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