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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1574 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #487 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #180 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2346 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #574 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lowercase first characters - 467 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #164 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 305 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #180 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1333 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #292 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #254 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #142 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
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