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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32758 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: 33
  • Position: #6018 / 7239
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18278 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2951 / 3768
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2704 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #728 / 804
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3426 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #920 / 1110
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2755 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #583 / 618
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2194 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #661 / 723
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4580 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1383 / 1516
  • Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 122 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #83 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 826 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #198 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5395 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1177 / 1219
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 709 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #323 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 911 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #154 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1919 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #512 / 563
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 350 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #173 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 377 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #160 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4865 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1594 / 1689
  • Number of attempts: 2
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