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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #722 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #124 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1385 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #427 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #216 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 2
Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #63 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #773 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 2
7th Birthday - 210 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #14 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #178 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #12 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #209 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #260 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #169 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #493 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #91 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 11
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #728 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #378 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #445 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #298 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13266 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1579 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7399 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #769 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 6
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