Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #286 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #364 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 29
  • Position: #4916 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1152 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 8
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