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Played Challenges

Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 143
  • Position: #324 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2173 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #287 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 57
  • Position: #232 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1014 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #168 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #446 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 30
  • Position: #5401 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1200 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #252 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #731 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1686 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1022 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3914 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
  • Position: #553 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3898 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3769 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3576 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 3
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