Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #56 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #17 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 4
un-C-escape string - 63 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #20 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #104 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 7
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #74 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #131 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1377 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #200 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1088 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #265 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #75 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #552 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 6
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