Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: 25
  • Position: #3228 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #101 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1375 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #82 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #258 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #704 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #38 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #211 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #65 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #18 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #27 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #237 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1680 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1007 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1565 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1588 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
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