Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4087 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #431 / 1010
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2004 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: 23
  • Position: #182 / 402
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32881 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: #1413 / 7266
  • Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18369 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #451 / 3786
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11124 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1140 / 4109
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5422 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #128 / 1225
  • Number of attempts: 17
Vice versa - 7508 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #384 / 2038
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15712 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #769 / 4109
  • Number of attempts: 14
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1289 / 3636
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12729 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #891 / 3917
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 11594 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #541 / 3403
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fergus Longley
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