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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: #7 / 271
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 31
Position: #248 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 61
Position: #165 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #107 / 555
Number of attempts: 4

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #57 / 380
Number of attempts: 9

Mr. Hacker - 89 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #23 / 35
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4468 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #179 / 1095
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 952 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #188 / 304
Number of attempts: 4

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 55
Position: #42 / 65
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #41 / 229
Number of attempts: 18

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33586 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: 22
Position: #2354 / 7409
Number of attempts: 7

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 917 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #51 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #73 / 203
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #420 / 1536
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #746 / 3858
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 42
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1073 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 280
Number of attempts: 8

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #51 / 155
Number of attempts: 13

Unsemantic linewrapping - 926 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #94 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2870 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 848
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #65 / 258
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1755 / 3061
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #214 / 522
Number of attempts: 12

Com(m)a Trouble - 3796 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #150 / 860
Number of attempts: 11

Extract wireshark capture filter - 215 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #7 / 71
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #443 / 1874
Number of attempts: 6

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #18 / 47
Number of attempts: 4

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #56 / 178
Number of attempts: 4

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #45 / 56
Number of attempts: 7

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #78 / 267
Number of attempts: 10

One to Ten - 2209 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #343 / 669
Number of attempts: 10

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #11 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #84 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #10 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #89 / 264
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #65 / 139
Number of attempts: 6