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

Played Challenges

Readable Rubyhash - 285 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: 23
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #86 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 554 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #179 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 486 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #185 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 704 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #370 / 372
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1643 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #456 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1166 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #458 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #603 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1055 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7722 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #943 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Add links to an existing HTML table - 112 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Joshua Travis
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Awesome.

entered into 9 challenges

contributed 1 challenges