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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: 26
Position: #3555 / 7275
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #916 / 1241
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5975 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #477 / 1467
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2229 / 3793
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #288 / 561
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1341 / 1857
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #107 / 815
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10545 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1328 / 2989
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #986 / 1121
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #379 / 764
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7682 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #797 / 1836
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #78 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 711 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #89 / 167
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #345 / 686
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2801 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #408 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #42 / 50
Number of attempts: 5

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #12 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 42
Position: #7 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 111 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3515 / 4114
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #298 / 570
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #545 / 1228
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1302 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #138 / 248
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1061 / 2048
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2095 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: 15
Position: #494 / 642
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 604 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #137 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 946 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #153 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 713 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #282 / 349
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 915 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #45 / 155
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #81 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #268 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 818 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #112 / 217
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1167
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1163 / 4116
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2343 / 3638
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2687 / 3919
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 63
Position: #24 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1960 / 3418
Number of attempts: 2