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Poorly indented Python comments - 832 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #48 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 6
Many duplicates - 807 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #62 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 427 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #86 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 901 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #136 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #122 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 777 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #46 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 11
hello-world-vimgolf - 1906 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #192 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 11
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 735 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #86 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fill in the chess board - 722 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #19 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 22
Learn to ask for :help - 457 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #72 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 1
Plotting some variables in python - 1371 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: 34
  • Position: #39 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 7
Transpose a python matrix - 653 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #37 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 19
Lowercase first characters - 413 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #44 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 4
simple replacements - 1209 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #100 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python dataclasses - 761 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #45 / 192
  • Number of attempts: 13
Staircase - 82 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #13 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 4
Enumerate Bullets - 242 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #31 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 1838 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #41 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mr. Hacker - 76 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #20 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 3
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