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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #377 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #346 / 615
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 734 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #166 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #200 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1201 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #270 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #544 / 862
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #259 / 378
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2264 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #639 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 3
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