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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: #719 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #121 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #134 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #425 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #141 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
  • Position: #38 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #770 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #48 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 11
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #42 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 25
  • Position: #54 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 692 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #43 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 10
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #258 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #492 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
Permutations N=4 - 68 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #11 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1037 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #727 / 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: 21
  • Position: #51 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #448 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 9
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