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Played Challenges

Greek Letters - 68 entries

Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #21 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #25 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #28 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1231 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #119 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #62 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Chucking wood - 135 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #30 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #208 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2211 / 3723
  • Number of attempts: 5
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