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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: 38
  • Position: #7006 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #876 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2887 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1694 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #644 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3508 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1770 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 210 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #48 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #201 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #130 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #362 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #961 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3508 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #978 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2811 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 17
  • Position: #902 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3132 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #613 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1426 / 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: 19
  • Position: #2867 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
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