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$ gem install vimgolf
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Played Challenges

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1053 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1028 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #454 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1008 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 844 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #103 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #406 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2820 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2015 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2237 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #114 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #889 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1377 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #181 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #348 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1466 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #683 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 1
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