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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #9 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4860 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1547 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #517 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #300 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1535 / 4243
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #198 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #984 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 189 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 3
JSON string rotation - 77 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #20 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #9 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #216 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #33 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #8 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #205 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #157 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Land of the Lost - 96 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #11 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #95 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 208 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #43 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 97 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #20 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #273 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #119 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 438 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #162 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1451 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #26 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #104 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #496 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #294 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #100 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #116 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #116 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #139 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Refactor static member invocation - 211 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #33 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #169 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2044 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #469 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #133 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #644 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #265 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1414 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 438 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #77 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #479 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #338 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 1
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