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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 174 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #20 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #301 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #171 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #18 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiplication table. - 237 entries

Create a multiplication table.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 310
  • Position: #66 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #125 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 476 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #102 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 411 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #57 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #218 / 659
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #153 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 904 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #66 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 9
Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #34 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #216 / 464
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1083 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #53 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

constructor - 193 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

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entered into 14 challenges

contributed 2 challenges