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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Modernise code - 708 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #105 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 1357 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #178 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 6
HS Final exam vimgolf - 597 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #61 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 8
Rural Post - 3894 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #69 / 964
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 1811 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #216 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1000 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #423 / 462
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 970 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #85 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 11
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5850 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #363 / 1439
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18320 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #997 / 3775
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10480 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1630 / 2972
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3442 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #810 / 1115
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3336 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #136 / 750
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7667 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #779 / 1831
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11102 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1449 / 4100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7491 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #579 / 2030
  • Number of attempts: 6
Line under headers - 1905 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #73 / 468
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15704 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1092 / 4104
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10525 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2456 / 3633
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12703 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2708 / 3909
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Modernise code - 708 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

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contributed 1 challenges