Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #1751 / 7420
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #271 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #950 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #653 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #152 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #188 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #34 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1295 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #97 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 7
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #40 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #24 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1234 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #227 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #172 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 15
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #13 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #461 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 11
One to Ten - 2219 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #106 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #71 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #133 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 4
Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #60 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 15
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #425 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1850 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1384 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #987 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #583 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 5
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