Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Populate 3D bone names list - 633 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #48 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 8
Find fix point of cos - 1408 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #5 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 6
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #54 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 5
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #267 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 3
Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #33 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: #1289 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #400 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #1580 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #121 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #717 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 7
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