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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33715 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: #1853 / 7440
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #766 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1505 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #668 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10879 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #101 / 3071
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #149 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1509 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #118 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #128 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1256 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #177 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 11
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #34 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7937 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #477 / 2136
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 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: #37 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 29
  • Position: #67 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #432 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #892 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #27 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1006 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12955 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2760 / 3730
  • Number of attempts: 1
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