Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1826 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #483 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #169 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #62 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #229 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #273 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #124 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1254 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #31 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 8
One to Ten - 2243 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #662 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #23 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #886 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1401 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1009 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 4
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