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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 - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #302 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #172 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #18 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiplication table. - 240 entries

Create a multiplication table.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 310
  • Position: #66 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #125 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 477 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: #103 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 432 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #58 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #219 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: #155 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #66 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 9
Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #35 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #218 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #53 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

constructor - 198 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

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entered into 14 challenges

contributed 2 challenges