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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 24
  • Position: #2868 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1787 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wget failed to download redirections - 250 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #53 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1036 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #206 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1615 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 420 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #126 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 1043 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #213 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #934 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #338 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #263 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #64 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 443 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #31 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1502 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #161 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #265 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1807 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #836 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3073 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 212 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #44 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 98 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #24 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairs Indenting - 503 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #90 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3069 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #446 / 790
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #144 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 105
  • Position: #50 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2558 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1109 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
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