Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #805 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #141 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #174 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2124 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #105 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7818 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #22 / 1861
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #170 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #836 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 2
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #16 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #255 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4261 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #278 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #539 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1089 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #746 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #463 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 3
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