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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #451 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #507 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #81 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1076 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #106 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1097 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #66 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2704 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1664 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 9
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