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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 880 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #91 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1480 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #388 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 289 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #36 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4197 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #64 / 1035
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33086 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2760 / 7297
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6081 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1392 / 1485
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4647 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #759 / 1861
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2781 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #467 / 824
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10717 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1638 / 3020
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #813 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3478 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #602 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7722 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #1565 / 1842
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2819 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #171 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 8
Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #117 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15836 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3813 / 4131
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10562 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2462 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12786 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1834 / 3928
  • Number of attempts: 3
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