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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: 29
  • Position: #10 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 10
Fix the shell script! - 2551 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #64 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 6
Visual block training - 1075 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #136 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #110 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #160 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #106 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #106 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4504 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #370 / 1104
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 957 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #26 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1133 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #253 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33703 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: 24
  • Position: #3101 / 7438
  • Number of attempts: 13
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #161 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 9
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6325 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #674 / 1543
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1735 / 3070
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #786 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 6
Line under headers - 2054 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #83 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1388 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2535 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 1
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