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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 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: 28
  • Position: #4356 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4656 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #599 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18826 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1477 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4829 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #566 / 1902
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #296 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1536 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #92 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #346 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 4
Number Sort - 319 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #43 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1078 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 8
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #130 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 10
Learn some german verbs - 541 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #98 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #598 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #806 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #311 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #371 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2989 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1247 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #896 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 13239 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1691 / 3802
  • Number of attempts: 7
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