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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 35
  • Position: #6520 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1015 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3612 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1647 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #648 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3775 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #92 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #761 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 3
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #56 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1743 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #429 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 438 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #116 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create bison tokens - 48 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

  • Best score: 85
  • Best player score: 116
  • Position: #18 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1180 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2858 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #946 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3526 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 18
  • Position: #979 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3781 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1402 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2177 / 3845
  • Number of attempts: 3
Christopher Wells
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A programmer and digital artist. Computer Science student at SUNY Oswego.

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