Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33981 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: 23
  • Position: #2647 / 7507
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #744 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2728 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1315 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1426 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number Sort - 321 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #50 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #477 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1127 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #153 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #172 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 278 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #91 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #370 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1420 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2048 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #531 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1279 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3159 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 1
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