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: 27
  • Position: #3841 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1038 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3321 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #387 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #545 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #700 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #450 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3487 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #919 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #95 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1263 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #358 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #95 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
  • Position: #189 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 628 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #21 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #827 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #385 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2891 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #970 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #984 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3203 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #895 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1558 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1419 / 1764
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #2604 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1416 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 2
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