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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #98 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #242 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #445 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1922 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1020 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 1
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 193 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #40 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #22 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 197 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1483 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 315 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #43 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 3
Restore order to the alphabet - 212 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #50 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Entries sort - 111 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #13 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #768 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #187 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #381 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #222 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #582 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2045 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2268 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #189 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1490 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 2
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