Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 42
  • Position: #7224 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #304 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #153 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #193 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #485 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #858 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 8
ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #250 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1655 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Caleb Rollins
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Time traveler from 1996. Going forward in time at the rate of 60 seconds per minute.

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