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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 36
Position: #6842 / 7513
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #148 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #179 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #970 / 1293
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #1175 / 1562
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3284 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

Right Align Part of the line - 154 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #30 / 45
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #269 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #354 / 594
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 964 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: 10
Position: #141 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1450 / 1914
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #459 / 867
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #148 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 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: 28
Position: #162 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2710 / 3098
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #474 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #566 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #1012 / 1185
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #711 / 910
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #1524 / 1901
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #222 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #43 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 182
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #521 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #393 / 647
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3895 / 4255
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #321 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #722 / 1279
Number of attempts: 2

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #227 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1122 / 2157
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2258 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: #506 / 688
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #384 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #247 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 57
Position: #148 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #142 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #353 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1010 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1956 / 4224
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2869 / 3715
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2757 / 3991
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1258 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1891 / 3902
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1126 / 1889
Number of attempts: 3