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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #4411 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3247 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1350 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #727 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #51 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 5
Number Sort - 321 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: #96 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2785 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #453 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1375 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #156 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #402 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #147 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #33 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1061 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2372 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #677 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2996 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #760 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 2
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