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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #687 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #333 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 14
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2573 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #24 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
42-header - 56 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #11 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 35
  • Position: #45 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #324 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 8
comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #382 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #149 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #655 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 12
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2270 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2422 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2623 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
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