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Replace markdown sections with numbering - 176 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 178
  • Position: #51 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
EDN reformat - 1158 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #130 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #7 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #34 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #206 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #46 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 6
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #119 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 9
From argument to object - 1513 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #162 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 4
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