Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

New teacher - 1501 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #159 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 580 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #24 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #265 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: 24
  • Position: #245 / 494
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #18 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 4
xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #74 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #197 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 27
  • Position: #4073 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #254 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1033 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1545 / 3093
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #366 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1058 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 8
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