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HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #140 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: 25
  • Position: #285 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3083 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 7
Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #36 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #114 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3288 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #260 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #360 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #173 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #408 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3061 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2258 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #507 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1024 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1510 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1107 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
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