Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #290 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4581 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #655 / 1118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2477 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: 30
  • Position: #380 / 493
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 26
  • Position: #3746 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1095 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3300 / 3896
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10929 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1960 / 3089
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1120 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2756 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 1
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