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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1184 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: #142 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #263 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1579 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #437 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #182 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 543 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #52 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lowercase first characters - 467 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #77 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #157 / 498
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 457 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #47 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1893 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 1
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