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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #3603 / 7364
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #930 / 1257
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #495 / 1517
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2259 / 3842
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #292 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1353 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #117 / 840
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1352 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1007 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #406 / 827
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #815 / 1865
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #80 / 226
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #94 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #351 / 700
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #412 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 187 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #44 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #12 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 91 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 42
Position: #8 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 119 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3557 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #302 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #564 / 1258
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #149 / 261
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1088 / 2101
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2165 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: #512 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: #144 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #158 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #299 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 932 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: #47 / 158
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #276 / 443
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #113 / 223
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1174 / 4161
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2362 / 3666
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2708 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 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: #26 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2047 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2