Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #744 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2726 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1313 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1414 / 1658
  • 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 - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1127 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #153 / 594
  • 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 ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #90 / 147
  • 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 - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1419 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2036 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: #528 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1279 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3157 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
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