Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 841 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #166 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 90 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

  • Best score: 74
  • Best player score: 107
  • Position: #19 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1334 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #279 / 308
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #257 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #365 / 1072
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #2278 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #787 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2288 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1913 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #816 / 1144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #962 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3122 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Josh Swift
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