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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #3660 / 7517
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #948 / 1294
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #512 / 1563
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2286 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #305 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1368 / 1915
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #122 / 867
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1369 / 3098
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1043 / 1185
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #443 / 910
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #829 / 1901
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #83 / 237
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #98 / 182
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #358 / 712
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #420 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 233 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #50 / 61
Number of attempts: 5

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 95 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #17 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 162 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 42
Position: #11 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3620 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #311 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #580 / 1281
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #155 / 271
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1106 / 2158
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2258 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: #528 / 688
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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: #152 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #166 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #323 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #51 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #89 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #284 / 461
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: #119 / 233
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1187 / 4225
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2388 / 3717
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2739 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 187 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: #32 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2228 / 3907
Number of attempts: 2