Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32758 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: #80 / 7239
  • Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4605 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #56 / 1842
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2194 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #474 / 723
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 421 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #22 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 5
120 Degrees - 408 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10511 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #446 / 3628
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12682 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #408 / 3905
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove dupes from array - 1260 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #298 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mike Rayner
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A code monkey born in the pennines. Variety is the spice of life, I always say, so I like playing around with multiple languages, frameworks and platforms.

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