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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #6722 / 7363
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #140 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #170 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #952 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #1141 / 1517
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3243 / 3842
Number of attempts: 2

Right Align Part of the line - 117 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: #26 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1053 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #254 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #340 / 569
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 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: #135 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1435 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #446 / 840
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #139 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 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: #153 / 244
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2663 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #453 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #560 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #977 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #646 / 826
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #1493 / 1864
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #211 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #40 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #513 / 700
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #386 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3829 / 4164
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #312 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #705 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #219 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7797 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1105 / 2099
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2165 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: #490 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #373 / 496
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #230 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 932 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: #141 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #343 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #999 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1931 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2833 / 3666
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2725 / 3945
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1240 / 1735
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1813 / 3580
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 43
Position: #1013 / 1614
Number of attempts: 3