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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #281 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #91 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 13
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #378 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #142 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 309 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #45 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 7
Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #87 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create a diamond comment - 360 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #53 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lowercase first characters - 509 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: 34
  • Position: #48 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 9
Migrated to Postgres! - 349 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #59 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1962 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #135 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 337 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #65 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python dataclasses - 1273 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #43 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3924 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
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