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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1680 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #511 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #437 / 722
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fill in the chess board - 979 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #87 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #119 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 348 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #54 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment number for every 10 lines - 245 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #43 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #195 / 399
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #37 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate Bullets - 337 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #73 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #199 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #316 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3645 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #267 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
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