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$ gem install vimgolf
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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 434 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #54 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 6
Visual block training - 354 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #8 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 17
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 839 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #101 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 1397 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #352 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 582 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #97 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lowercase first characters - 324 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #110 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 200 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #59 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
CSV to MD format - 276 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #23 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 14
The name of the game - 622 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #265 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 1
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