Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #5046 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1077 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1966 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #79 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #562 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #130 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign numbers to fields - 123 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #43 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #158 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #77 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1261 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #784 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #606 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1506 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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