Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 28
  • Position: #4146 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1595 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3310 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1201 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #89 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #204 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #239 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2811 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 1
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