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

Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2113 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #218 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 583 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #146 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #72 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat symbols in list - 1658 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #338 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #41 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 8
Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #262 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1118 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #80 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #295 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #154 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 3
Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #102 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python dataclasses - 1253 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #205 / 313
  • Number of attempts: 1
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