Result:

emacs:  time: 25.2 real 11.5 user 1.2 sys 
vi:     time:  9.4 real  0.5 user 0.3 sys

 
"Vi is small, fast, and easy to use. Emacs is huge, slow and easy to use"
- Scott McMahon, softbase@mercury.interpath.net, 1998

 
"Which editor was used to write the first version of emacs?"
- Me, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au, August 2000

 
vi is good for 1/2-fingered typists; no "chords" required.