Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 26
  • Position: #3474 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #825 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #493 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3610 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #884 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #68 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #13 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #35 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #441 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3439 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #398 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #143 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #621 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1596 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #142 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3763 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #520 / 807
  • Number of attempts: 3
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