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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: 33
  • Position: #6200 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #754 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1495 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #434 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #189 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #411 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1343 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2973 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #125 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2247 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #540 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1820 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3522 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #239 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #143 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #126 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
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