Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #169 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1094 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #2047 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #552 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #534 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #949 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #826 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #628 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3110 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 1
Roger
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