Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: 28
  • Position: #4206 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2058 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #540 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #669 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2235 / 4243
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #133 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #38 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract text from xml - 134 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #26 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #564 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
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