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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #103 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 6
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1297 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: #271 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #182 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #90 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 7
simple replacements - 1885 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #267 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #100 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate Bullets - 339 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: 68
  • Position: #84 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mr. Hacker - 104 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: #39 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 343 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #64 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
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