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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #114 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #132 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 5
Visual block training - 780 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #84 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1343 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #280 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 2
Java to JavaScript - 216 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #24 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #111 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 1978 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #386 / 563
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #117 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #49 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1384 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: 53
  • Position: #186 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #173 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #156 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1102 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #146 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #473 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 1
Javier Contreras
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RF and electronics nerd Undergrad in the PUC Chile

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