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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33677 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: #6779 / 7431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #144 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #176 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4637 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #962 / 1272
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6323 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1162 / 1542
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3262 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 2
Right Align Part of the line - 133 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: #28 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #262 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2501 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #347 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 5
Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 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: #138 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1442 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2887 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #453 / 854
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #141 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 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: #155 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10876 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2684 / 3069
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #461 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #561 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3595 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #995 / 1166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #682 / 871
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7911 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #1506 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #215 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #42 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #46 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #515 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #389 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11473 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3862 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #316 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #713 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #224 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7925 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1112 / 2133
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2221 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: #498 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2047 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #375 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #236 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 974 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: #145 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #139 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #346 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1003 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1938 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2849 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12951 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2741 / 3966
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1248 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1850 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7040 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1061 / 1729
  • Number of attempts: 3
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