Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Box it - 2834 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple, Practical, and Common - 24895 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: 8
One number per line - 12689 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1617 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 9167 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9483 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 11708 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 6
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