Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #331 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 30
  • Position: #5319 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #216 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #294 / 1530
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1480 / 3055
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1264 / 1870
  • Number of attempts: 2
Colby Morrison
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