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Changing URL path in CSS - 123 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #10 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 3
Chucking wood - 103 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #17 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 5
Python to Ruby - 195 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #27 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 10
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 186 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #14 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inconsistent real estate paste - 179 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #24 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #590 / 730
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 677 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #20 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #115 / 1729
  • Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 548 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #351 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1324 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #107 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 456 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #114 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #415 / 1573
  • Number of attempts: 4
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