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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32881 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: #285 / 7266
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18369 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3441 / 3786
  • Number of attempts: 1
Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #5 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4635 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #316 / 1855
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2211 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #149 / 727
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 4644 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #424 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 7
That hyphen - 2488 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #108 / 680
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11124 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #548 / 4109
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #47 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 8
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 3
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 46 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #15 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5422 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #868 / 1225
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 794 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: 13
  • Position: #8 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 155 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: 35
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #3 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 334 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #75 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7508 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #669 / 2038
  • Number of attempts: 8
Array of characters - 133 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #3 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #106 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 247 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #8 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 7
Angular naming conventions - 280 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: #27 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 6
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #20 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 5
Alsa configuration - 481 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #13 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 760 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #51 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 742 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #46 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1575 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #346 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #32 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 6
Winning streak - 113 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #37 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 744 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: #41 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15712 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #340 / 4109
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3111 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #146 / 1111
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 947 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #33 / 338
  • Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1091 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #195 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1943 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: 11
  • Position: #59 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 10
Where should I put the Newline? - 837 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #166 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #884 / 3636
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3387 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #585 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1537 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: #136 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3020 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: #223 / 1043
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12729 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #629 / 3917
  • Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 1949 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #36 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #79 / 732
  • Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 1971 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #124 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 4903 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #389 / 1699
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11594 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #396 / 3403
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5975 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #133 / 1476
  • Number of attempts: 9
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