Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Sort and Tag - 654 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #49 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 6
Morse - 178 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #20 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quicksort - 2074 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #252 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 650 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #91 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1458 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #255 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2642 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #279 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #109 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1880 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 3
Word frequency alignment - 296 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #127 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 4
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