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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 33
  • Position: #6184 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3028 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #784 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #976 / 1173
  • 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: 30
  • Position: #605 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #692 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1490 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 168 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #103 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 920 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #215 / 219
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1225 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 849 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #377 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 979 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #164 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 16
  • Position: #530 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #173 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 474 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #186 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1646 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 2
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