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

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4860 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #42 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #85 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 182 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #61 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #66 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 270 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #62 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #183 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2044 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #165 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1887 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #435 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1400 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #336 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 2
constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #25 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1306 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #356 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1369 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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