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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #238 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4579 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #918 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2476 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #484 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 41
  • Position: #7211 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1159 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3392 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1949 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #833 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1423 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3715 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 1
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