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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #1958 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #774 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #566 / 3878
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #56 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 6
Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 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: #48 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 12
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #419 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 884 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #27 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1240 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #21 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1101 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #131 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 8
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #467 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #312 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3897 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #71 / 884
  • Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #693 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 841 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #185 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1302 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #51 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #819 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2240 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: #196 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #108 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1899 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2412 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1763 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 3
calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #34 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13095 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #603 / 3767
  • Number of attempts: 5
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