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

Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #359 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2140 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #352 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18808 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #749 / 3883
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1702 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 476 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #175 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #269 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1136 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #131 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #125 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3803 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #773 / 818
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1376 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #275 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13169 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #673 / 3784
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7291 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #585 / 1801
  • Number of attempts: 9
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