Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 27
  • Position: #3797 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1658 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3438 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1551 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #401 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #617 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #245 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 18
  • Position: #567 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #207 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3122 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2908 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1407 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2192 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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