Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4450 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #67 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: #745 / 7397
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #359 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #149 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 15
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #678 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #155 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #790 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 5
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #52 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #200 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #500 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1057 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 2
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