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

Played Challenges

Morse - 148 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #14 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 5
New teacher - 1101 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #139 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 41
  • Position: #136 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 396 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 129
  • Position: #52 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
  • Position: #372 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #51 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fizzbuzz - 575 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #51 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #322 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #204 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 2
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