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Lowercase first characters - 436 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #130 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 22
  • Position: #1582 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #278 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #482 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #80 / 834
  • Number of attempts: 9
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1133 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #31 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #99 / 3030
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #51 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #185 / 1134
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 798
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #612 / 1853
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hash staircase - 46 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #18 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 773 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #29 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #5 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 8
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 729 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #25 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2820 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #225 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #690 / 1249
  • Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1350 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #93 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1351 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2128 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: 12
  • Position: #112 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 970 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #30 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 729 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #129 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1128 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #14 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 501 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #49 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #818 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1382 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1716 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1732 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 2
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