Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 23
  • Position: #2507 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #389 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1069 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #177 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #96 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2924 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #15 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2212 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #917 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 712 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #87 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 479 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #48 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1134 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #160 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #46 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #77 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #658 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1299 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #348 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #939 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1545 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1566 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 2
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