Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #19 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 5
swap number pairs - 1874 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #20 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #134 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 9
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: #99 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: #2330 / 7309
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #391 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18498 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #726 / 3816
  • Number of attempts: 5
Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #13 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #93 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #711 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7757 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #423 / 1848
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1109 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #420 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 4
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