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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #83 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #245 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 3
Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #108 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 5
Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #201 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #188 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #592 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 549 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #110 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #17 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 2
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