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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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

Played Challenges

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #123 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #127 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 4
Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #78 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #153 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #60 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 4
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #140 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1057 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #155 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #31 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #267 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12983 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2703 / 3736
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #866 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Bradly Feeley
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Ruby developer, Husband, outdoorsman, musician, and follower of Christ

entered into 11 challenges

contributed 1 challenges