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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: #249 / 7301
Number of attempts: 12

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #149 / 1247
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18478 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1054 / 3810
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1615 / 1863
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #265 / 691
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #440 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

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: #148 / 736
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #143 / 689
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3348 / 4140
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #46 / 265
Number of attempts: 12

Format java properties - 66 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #421 / 1243
Number of attempts: 16

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 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: #33 / 280
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: 28
Position: #20 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 226 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 78
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7620 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #865 / 2067
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 167 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #44 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #19 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #308 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 247 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #33 / 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: 23
Position: #85 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #68 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #63 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #200 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #911 / 1176
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 757 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #114 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #46 / 436
Number of attempts: 6

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1256 / 4133
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #598 / 1120
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: 12
Position: #186 / 574
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2055 / 3646
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #200 / 686
Number of attempts: 10

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #622 / 3930
Number of attempts: 15

Transposition - 73 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #7 / 28
Number of attempts: 4

Sort by your own sum - 62 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #12 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 92 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #23 / 34
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #471 / 634
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #443 / 1722
Number of attempts: 4

Calculate the table totals - 123 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 118
Position: #37 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #174 / 635
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 11856 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1436 / 3469
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6219 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #302 / 1530
Number of attempts: 5