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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33990 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: #6997 / 7510
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4704 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #875 / 1292
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18900 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2885 / 3903
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4866 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1691 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2409 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #642 / 771
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3504 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8014 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1768 / 2154
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 203 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #47 / 79
  • 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 - 538 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #129 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #361 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4336 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #960 / 1198
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3505 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #977 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2810 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #901 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13037 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3128 / 3989
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #611 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5122 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1424 / 1763
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13612 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2858 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
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