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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #398 / 7420
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #37 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1044 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #341 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #157 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 10
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #432 / 1624
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #575 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2138 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #21 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #797 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 5
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 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: 35
  • Position: #19 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 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: 35
  • Position: #44 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #15 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #35 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #168 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 6
Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #6 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #39 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #149 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #9 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 4
lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #37 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #47 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 320 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: #35 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 6
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #31 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 7
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #25 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 8
ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #17 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #58 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 9
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #930 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #359 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #92 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 804 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: 16
  • Position: #188 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #378 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #336 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #114 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: #65 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #935 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #531 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 13
  • Position: #407 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #233 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #665 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #474 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #82 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #408 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #409 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #825 / 1706
  • Number of attempts: 8
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