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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33613 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: #2118 / 7417
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #27 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
  • Position: #23 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #8 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #319 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #106 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18725 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #640 / 3862
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 19
  • Position: #3 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #19 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 5
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2493 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #83 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
  • Position: #65 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #720 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #232 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #45 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 19
  • Position: #40 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10851 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #490 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #189 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #155 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #381 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #108 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #314 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 8
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #55 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #84 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #16 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 7
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #47 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #61 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #156 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #646 / 1624
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11448 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1366 / 4196
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #256 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #297 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #64 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7904 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #541 / 2126
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2212 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: #272 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #38 / 501
  • Number of attempts: 7
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #47 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #219 / 391
  • 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: 20
  • Position: #12 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #69 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #27 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #472 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1014 / 4179
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #282 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1503 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3511 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #168 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 12
Words in parens - 12930 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1090 / 3962
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #87 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #605 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 312 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 150
  • Position: #116 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 687 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #33 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12787 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #623 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6962 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #166 / 1701
  • Number of attempts: 7
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