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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #1803 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #480 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #523 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 10
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #159 / 834
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #770 / 3030
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #236 / 798
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #31 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 6
Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2128 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: #123 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 187 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #5 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 340 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #33 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1128 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #201 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 5
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