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: 22
  • Position: #1820 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1220 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #140 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #65 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #54 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #330 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #953 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3499 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13017 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2540 / 3745
  • Number of attempts: 1
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