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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: 25
  • Position: #3358 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #633 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #649 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #137 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #830 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #670 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #386 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 141 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #59 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2249 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: 14
  • Position: #454 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 32
  • Position: #158 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2305 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1024 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3327 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saphire Lattice
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A lurking dragoness who doesn't checks Twitter that often. Thinks programming is shiny and meddles with foreign language

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