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Played Challenges

Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #181 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 3
Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #97 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #161 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1264 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #249 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #492 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #643 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1671 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: 85
  • Position: #327 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 1
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #112 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1410 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #298 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #16 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extend shell script - 137 entries

Just add some more stuff

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #37 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3186 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #2014 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2746 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 3
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #156 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #357 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #581 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #117 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #767 / 814
  • Number of attempts: 1
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