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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #101 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 9
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #75 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 6
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1295 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 356
  • Position: #275 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #407 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 5
Migrated to Postgres! - 349 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #98 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 11
swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #136 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 10
Python: Def to Lambda - 492 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #70 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #183 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #352 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 12
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 209 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #58 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1770 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 43 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #24 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #263 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 110 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #42 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 158 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #40 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 70 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 3
  • Position: #38 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 5
Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #128 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 59 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #25 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 2
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