Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #91 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #282 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4551 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #746 / 1110
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 34
  • Position: #6471 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #214 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #847 / 1549
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #3594 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2078 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1475 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #2078 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3927 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 1
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