Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 30
  • Position: #5035 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #842 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #88 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #124 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1212 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #105 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #438 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3541 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #326 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1395 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1372 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 3
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