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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1281 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #212 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #231 / 616
  • Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1096 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #16 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 19
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #118 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #166 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 6
Plotting some variables in python - 1673 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #185 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1932 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #259 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #178 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: #287 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 8
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 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: 35
  • Position: #163 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #735 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #68 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #689 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 6
A simple change - 476 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #44 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1067 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #533 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3864 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #153 / 830
  • Number of attempts: 11
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