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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #253 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #351 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 91
  • Position: #205 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #433 / 713
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #855 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 3
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