Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #392 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #32 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2446 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #95 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #674 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2146 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #165 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #84 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #32 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 8
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #14 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #260 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2067 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #25 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #484 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 14
  • Position: #170 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #455 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #297 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 10
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