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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #171 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #43 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: #156 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 4
Java to JavaScript - 269 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #39 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #197 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #105 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #186 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 28
  • Position: #4523 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1648 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3135 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #67 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 3
Get rid of html tags - 412 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #123 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13017 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2328 / 3745
  • Number of attempts: 5
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