Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #1269 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #214 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #391 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1062 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #115 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 6
Learn some german verbs - 529 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #18 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #349 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 8
Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #110 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #708 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1239 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1627 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #516 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 3
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