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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #3653 / 7489
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #943 / 1284
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #511 / 1557
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2279 / 3893
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #303 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1365 / 1904
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #121 / 864
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1365 / 3087
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1038 / 1179
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #439 / 901
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #827 / 1895
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #83 / 234
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #97 / 180
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #355 / 707
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #416 / 642
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: 20
Position: #48 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 83 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #16 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 161 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 42
Position: #11 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 140 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 79
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3607 / 4234
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #308 / 592
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #575 / 1274
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #154 / 270
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1101 / 2147
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2243 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: #526 / 683
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: #150 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #164 / 257
Number of attempts: 3

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: #322 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 998 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: #51 / 166
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #88 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #281 / 453
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #118 / 231
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1194
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1184 / 4208
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2382 / 3703
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2732 / 3979
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 184 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: #31 / 45
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2197 / 3846
Number of attempts: 2