Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: #585 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1371 / 3896
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #331 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #256 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 5
Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #39 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #128 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #156 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #430 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 6
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