Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #359 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #800 / 1284
  • 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: 7
  • Position: #340 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #590 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #760 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #729 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sorting a glossary - 132 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #15 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #410 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #181 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 13
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #923 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #668 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1546 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 14
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