The aim of this paper is to present some new observations about w-distance (in the sense of O. Kada, T. Suzuki, W. Takahashi, Nonconvex minimization theorems and fixed point theorems in complete metric spaces, Math. Japonica 44, 2 (1996), 381-391) and F-contractions (in the sense of D. Wardowski, Fixed points of a new type of contractive mappings in complete metric spaces, Fixed Point Theory Appl., 2012:94 (2012)). Both concepts have been examined separately a lot, but there have been few attempts to connect them. This article is a step in filling this gap. Besides, some comments and improvements of results in the existing literature are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]