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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: 30
  • Position: #5020 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4810 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1635 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3391 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7917 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1916 / 2131
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3150 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #809 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #174 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #607 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1526 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #347 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12841 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1482 / 3704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7016 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #463 / 1718
  • Number of attempts: 2
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