Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #349 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2450 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #58 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: #1832 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #298 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18811 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #530 / 3883
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #633 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #134 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #493 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1075 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 5
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