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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33746 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: 22
  • Position: #1666 / 7449
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #269 / 1275
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #786 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 10
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #118 / 859
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #138 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #24 / 882
  • Number of attempts: 10
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #571 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #23 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #6 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #15 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1207 / 4215
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7967 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1782 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2234 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: 12
  • Position: #61 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 663 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: 14
  • Position: #26 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1036 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #9 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 847 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #104 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 3
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #6 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 978 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: #52 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 5
move titles next to url, in quotes - 539 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #102 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2295 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1368 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #966 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 4
Pascal's Triangle - 38 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #15 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13091 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1759 / 3764
  • Number of attempts: 4
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