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Text-editor race

Idea is to get three people, one for vim, one for emacs, and one for sublime, and have a list of tasks they have to do with their editor of choice. Whoever finishes all tasks first wins a prize, although maybe have an alternative prize for creativity.

One way to handle this:

Have groups of tasks to be solved
The race would be in X stages, for X groups. Maybe one group is modifying text, another group is writing a program to do something. Maybe each group could showcase the strengths of one editor, to make things more fair.
After each stage finishes, each contestant shares how they solved the task. The fastest person wins a point by default, but if someone else makes a good argument why their way should win the point (it was creative, etc) then they could steal.
At the end, the person with the most points wins.

Some unsolved questions:

Is there a simple way to feed four monitors into a system to be projected?
How do we factor in preparation time? Examples: maybe someone needs to download plugins, maybe someone needs to run ctags or something
- One idea is to have everyone start with minimal install for each challenge
Can we get a microphone and speakers? Sort of like how Mitch runs his soldering workshops
A projector wall?
How long do we need? I would say one hour officially, but maybe 1.5 hours because it always takes longer.