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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 430 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #13 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 11
Fix the shell script! - 772 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #15 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 11
Visual block training - 336 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #16 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 3
Innocent Monster - 103 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 138
  • Position: #25 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 830 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #85 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 541 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #20 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 10
hello-world-vimgolf - 1394 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #161 / 399
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 582 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #130 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 190 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #23 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fill in the chess board - 496 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: #15 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 16
Plotting some variables in python - 1127 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: 35
  • Position: #54 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 8
Transpose a python matrix - 524 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #23 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 16
Python dataclasses - 629 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #67 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 894 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #286 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 251 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #130 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 408 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #129 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 3
Get rid of html tags - 337 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
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