Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 29
  • Position: #4838 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1308 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #522 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #24 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #621 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3584 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #372 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #601 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #81 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #852 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1781 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 1
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