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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 25
  • Position: #3324 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1464 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #594 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #295 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #532 / 878
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #378 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #258 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #658 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2968 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 25
  • Position: #186 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #512 / 666
  • Number of attempts: 3
Florent Jaby
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If you write stupid code, your code does stupid things. Stances: it's pronounced gif.

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