Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Manual SQL - 94 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 49
  • Best player score: 59
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 193 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1755 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 662 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9848 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 27818 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
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 3678 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4194 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1015 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment, increment, increment.... - 498 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 11597 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 903 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 380 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 465 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 6443 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 2
Jonas Nockert
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Studies math in order to study computer science.

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