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Played Challenges

Changing around text with citations - 327 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #5 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Poorly indented Python comments - 1300 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #12 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 15
Many duplicates - 1425 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #5 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #8 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 9
delete swap - 1758 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #68 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1250 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 134
  • Position: #255 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2540 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #511 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #27 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 15
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #23 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2484 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #195 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 15
Fill in the chess board - 953 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #129 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lowercase first characters - 486 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: 46
  • Position: #134 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 1
C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #22 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #71 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 712 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #9 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 17

Contributed Challenges

Changing around text with citations - 327 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

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entered into 15 challenges

contributed 1 challenges