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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: 22
Position: #326 / 7301
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #76 / 1863
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #88 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #429 / 1572
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #116 / 689
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #302 / 4140
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 52
Position: #226 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #423 / 1243
Number of attempts: 4

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #30 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #27 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #999 / 2067
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #128 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 247 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #21 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Angular naming conventions - 285 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #32 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #24 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #10 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #55 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #165 / 1176
Number of attempts: 5

camel riding - 757 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #48 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 105 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #50 / 436
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 280
Number of attempts: 5

ASCII box - 324 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #87 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #106 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 773 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 238
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #207 / 4133
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #7 / 1120
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #110 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #110 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: 15
Position: #381 / 574
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #107 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #466 / 3646
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #481 / 686
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1580 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #142 / 506
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 14
Position: #228 / 1057
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #427 / 3930
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #227 / 724
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #182 / 756
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #400 / 1722
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2327 / 3471
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6223 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 33
Position: #249 / 1532
Number of attempts: 6