Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: #1887 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2260 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #167 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #369 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1056 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #844 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1810 / 3711
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #822 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2116 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1359 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2165 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 1
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