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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Changing date formats - 728 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #54 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
YAML to dotenv - 1592 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #194 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change to ascending order - 516 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #25 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 465 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #17 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate an entry for each month - 386 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #32 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the git merge conflicts - 345 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #32 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1139 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #203 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #207 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #128 / 659
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1167 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #142 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4006 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #429 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1483 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #290 / 375
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13564 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2440 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7630 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #239 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 7

Contributed Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1592 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

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