Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #59 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #562 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #13 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #321 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #45 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 6
HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #128 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #27 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #149 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #158 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #14 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 473 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #83 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #180 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
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