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Played Challenges

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 425 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #6 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 7
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 486 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #77 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Easier Align - 347 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 295
  • Position: #68 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1510 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #51 / 397
  • Number of attempts: 15
Reformat symbols in list - 1470 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 5
Changing around text with citations - 322 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #45 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #20 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 11
Many duplicates - 1253 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #121 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #120 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 8
hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #459 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 841 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #38 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fill in the chess board - 905 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 95
  • Position: #155 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Plotting some variables in python - 1567 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #159 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 5
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