Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Turn the x - 270 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #51 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format the CSS - 109 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #32 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4197 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #508 / 1035
  • Number of attempts: 3
Satisfy the go linter - 2041 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: 26
  • Position: #245 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 554 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #59 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1069 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #180 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1048 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #100 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33086 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: #2211 / 7297
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18472 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1959 / 3807
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10717 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1512 / 3020
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7722 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1392 / 1842
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5484 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #695 / 1241
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15830 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1955 / 4130
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3135 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #718 / 1118
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4980 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #967 / 1717
  • Number of attempts: 1
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