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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 2349 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #73 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 8
hello-world-vimgolf - 2376 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #54 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 7
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 842 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #15 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1567 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #110 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1259 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 1
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