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Played Challenges

Substraction (bis) - 637 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #79 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 2
Changing around text with citations - 361 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #43 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #101 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 7
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #354 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #62 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #97 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #271 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1680 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #446 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 1
Java to JavaScript - 299 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 92
  • Position: #48 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #125 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #197 / 722
  • Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #161 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 3
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