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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 28
  • Position: #4220 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2870 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5087 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1542 / 1657
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3515 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #196 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1705 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2551 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1071 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #6 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #156 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #408 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 320 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #103 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #19 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 6
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #199 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #228 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat most common surnames - 808 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #180 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #178 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 405 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #108 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1560 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #562 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3100 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Dhruva Sagar
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An enthusiastic software engineer, open source enthusiast, an aspiring entrepreneur and photographer hobbyist

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