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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1527 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #103 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 6
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1179 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 312
  • Position: #242 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #172 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #85 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 7
simple replacements - 1662 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #249 / 371
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #100 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate Bullets - 292 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: 20
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #74 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mr. Hacker - 78 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #32 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 262 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #57 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
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