Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #206 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #169 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 31
  • Position: #5688 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #243 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1325 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3459 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #162 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2152 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #1603 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1671 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #307 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3557 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3009 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mikael Brassman
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