Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: 23
  • Position: #2642 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #930 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2729 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1334 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1175 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #199 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #598 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1990 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #23 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #16 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #399 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3003 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #693 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1333 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #621 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #649 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2978 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #409 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #527 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #350 / 408
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2905 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6984 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #750 / 1708
  • Number of attempts: 5
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