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 - 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: #602 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1194 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #288 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2256 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #749 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 692 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #101 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 140 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #55 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1167 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2543 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2348 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 5
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