Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 32
  • Position: #5933 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4704 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #625 / 1292
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #331 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #392 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5732 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #143 / 1278
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #695 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #947 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #681 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #526 / 1762
  • Number of attempts: 2
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