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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 24
  • Position: #2885 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #692 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1202 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #511 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #460 / 695
  • Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 140 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #22 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #473 / 1578
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #147 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2324 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #102 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #663 / 1249
  • Number of attempts: 2
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #46 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 4
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 226 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #69 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 3
underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #74 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #239 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #59 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 11
Sort files from hosts - 167 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #46 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #149 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #140 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 248 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #55 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #239 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #817 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #230 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 396 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #120 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1669 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #637 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #147 / 293
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2142 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ninjas Leaderboard - 84 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #10 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 15
  • Position: #464 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2333 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 3
maximun and minimun - 55 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #11 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #226 / 397
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1184 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #275 / 699
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1006 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #158 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 3
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