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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: #3624 / 7410
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #936 / 1267
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #505 / 1536
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2267 / 3858
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2488 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #296 / 577
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1357 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2870 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #120 / 848
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1355 / 3061
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1019 / 1158
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3796 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #422 / 860
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #818 / 1874
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 - 2872 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 / 640
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 - 130 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #17 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3573 / 4186
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 - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #569 / 1263
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 - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1094 / 2125
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2209 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: #518 / 669
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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 / 207
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 - 810 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 / 389
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 - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #86 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #279 / 447
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 - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1177 / 4175
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2369 / 3679
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2720 / 3960
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 167 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 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2106 / 3671
Number of attempts: 2