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$ gem install vimgolf
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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 901 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: #113 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 6
Visual block training - 729 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #10 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 17
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #115 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 1906 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #476 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 735 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #117 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lowercase first characters - 413 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: #137 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 258 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #76 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
CSV to MD format - 329 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #24 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 14
The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #265 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 1
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