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Many duplicates - 1481 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #250 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #1879 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #284 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #799 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #190 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 4
Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #27 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #181 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #981 / 3093
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #96 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #264 / 1182
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #277 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #169 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 5
Cool or not? - 854 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #44 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 5
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 769 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #34 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1274 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #182 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 10
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #43 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #485 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2248 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: #158 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2093 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #247 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 1063 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #115 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 6
change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #48 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1198 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #108 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #443 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1200 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1418 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1758 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1826 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 1
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