Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32992 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: #1750 / 7283
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18426 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #925 / 3799
  • Number of attempts: 16
Swap values inside brackets - 2437 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #237 / 562
  • Number of attempts: 11
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2763 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #496 / 818
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2111 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #501 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 13
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3475 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #179 / 1125
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7696 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #468 / 1838
  • Number of attempts: 13
Just the middle - 11261 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1228 / 4135
  • Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1302 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 15
Vice versa - 7563 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #460 / 2054
  • Number of attempts: 13
One to Ten - 2113 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: 12
  • Position: #101 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 13
Increment each number - 951 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #66 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete to the end of the current line - 715 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #124 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15769 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2258 / 4119
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10555 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1379 / 3642
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11705 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2352 / 3430
  • Number of attempts: 6
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