Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #266 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #209 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #830 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #316 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 38
  • Position: #7063 / 7489
  • 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: 21
  • Position: #1367 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #3724 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2888 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1020 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #4004 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1982 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #152 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3888 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1075 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3230 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3530 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #524 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 4
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