Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 30
  • Position: #5242 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #245 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3335 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #285 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #620 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1153 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #181 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #136 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #398 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #34 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #784 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1309 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #926 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #20 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12994 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1703 / 3738
  • Number of attempts: 5
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