Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33981 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: #23 / 7507
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1647 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1539 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1616 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #769 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 1
increment by column in XML - 165 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #33 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #754 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #158 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #133 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 14
  • Position: #304 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2639 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #326 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 4
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