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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: 29
  • Position: #4615 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #303 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #139 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #1495 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #542 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #576 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #185 / 276
  • 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: #41 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1539 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #381 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 3
lipsum lines - 315 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #80 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #88 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #243 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #44 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #926 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #257 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #249 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 829 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: 15
  • Position: #172 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3183 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #608 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #342 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #202 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3116 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 17
  • Position: #885 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #402 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1408 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #416 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #1529 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 5
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