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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #352 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #371 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1141 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1038 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #581 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #16 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #726 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Free hyphen! - 199 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #58 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 138 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #19 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #139 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #105 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2113 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #428 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #403 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1549 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
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