Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1838 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2056 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #207 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1530 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1069 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #409 / 428
  • Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #81 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 326 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #113 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1043 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2847 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2765 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2285 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #401 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #317 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #325 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2290 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 1
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