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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 23
  • Position: #2683 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 13
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2540 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #521 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1015 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #487 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #1586 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #171 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
Convert Application Output to CSV - 214 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #53 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #736 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2823 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #214 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #189 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #326 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2668 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #683 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #644 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3156 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7533 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #1489 / 1852
  • Number of attempts: 2
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