I'm sure many people have tried it, and most of them probably succeeded. :-)

Look in the VBA help at the topic on the Repeat command, especially the
examples. You can write a simple macro that lets you input the number of
repeats and then calls the Repeat command with that number as the parameter.

If the number is small, just press the F4 key that number of times instead
of using a macro. Note that not all actions are repeatable.