Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Substraction (bis) - 579 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #64 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #339 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 841 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #183 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 3
Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #48 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1567 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #171 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 4
Transpose a python matrix - 845 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #84 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create a diamond comment - 314 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 226
  • Position: #70 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1450 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1820 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 7
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #70 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1031 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #500 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #994 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2004 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #108 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 6
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