Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #510 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #682 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #374 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #45 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #444 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #459 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #653 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #62 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 14
  • Position: #350 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #983 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #693 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #419 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 4
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