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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: #723 / 7410
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #424 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #191 / 3858
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4798 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #490 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #341 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1115 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #333 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #65 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #533 / 752
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #144 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2391 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #117 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #69 / 1263
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 863 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #172 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 265 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #23 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 3
Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #11 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #100 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #264 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 6
7th Birthday - 202 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: 23
  • Position: #41 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #88 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #34 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #123 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #17 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 5
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #70 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #48 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #306 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #132 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #283 / 444
  • 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: 23
  • Position: #108 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2539 / 4175
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #260 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #90 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 7
Don't know what this is - 2014 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #359 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #383 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2371 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #309 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #163 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2125 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #291 / 659
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #906 / 1747
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1988 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #483 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #67 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1554 / 3671
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #740 / 1690
  • Number of attempts: 4
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