Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Turn the x - 205 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #42 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format the CSS - 66 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: #24 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 3890 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #470 / 963
  • Number of attempts: 3
Satisfy the go linter - 1811 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: #208 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 410 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #59 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 999 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #180 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 970 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: #96 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32803 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 / 7246
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18318 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1941 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10480 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1492 / 2972
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7667 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1382 / 1831
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5419 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #683 / 1222
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15704 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1944 / 4104
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3104 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #712 / 1107
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4894 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #954 / 1696
  • Number of attempts: 1
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