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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33677 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: 26
  • Position: #3632 / 7431
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4637 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #940 / 1272
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6323 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #508 / 1542
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2269 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2501 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #298 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1360 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2887 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #120 / 854
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10876 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1359 / 3069
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3595 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1026 / 1166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #428 / 871
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7911 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #818 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #82 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #96 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #353 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #415 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #47 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 5
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #15 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #10 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #16 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11473 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3587 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #306 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #570 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #153 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7925 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1095 / 2133
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2221 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: #520 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #148 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #26 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #161 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #303 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 974 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #50 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 7
move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #86 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #279 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #116 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #411 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1179 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2374 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12951 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2723 / 3966
  • Number of attempts: 2
Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #30 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2134 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
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