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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 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: #181 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #190 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1658 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #220 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 5
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #393 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #154 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1479 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #189 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 18
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