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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Plotting some variables in python - 1671 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: 54
  • Position: #231 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 338 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #102 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1420 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #169 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #43 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 8
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #441 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2284 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6362 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #346 / 1553
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18826 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1334 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #444 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2346 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #840 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7961 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1477 / 1890
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #259 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3137 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #383 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1239 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #423 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2763 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 1
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