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Replace markdown sections with numbering - 235 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 178
  • Position: #63 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #132 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #7 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 571 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #34 / 320
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2618 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #211 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the shell script! - 2606 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #46 / 607
  • Number of attempts: 6
hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #119 / 713
  • Number of attempts: 9
From argument to object - 1534 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #162 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 4
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