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

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4802 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #13 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 4
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #32 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #99 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #145 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10660 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #351 / 3681
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1182 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 6
Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #23 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #31 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #28 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #26 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 3
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #39 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #402 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2136 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #347 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Adit Cahya Ramadhan
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I Stand on the Applicative Side

entered into 16 challenges

contributed 2 challenges