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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: 26
Position: #3637 / 7442
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #940 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #508 / 1546
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2270 / 3870
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #300 / 583
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1360 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #120 / 856
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1359 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1029 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #430 / 876
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #819 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #82 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 178
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #354 / 704
Number of attempts: 5

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: 20
Position: #415 / 641
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #47 / 56
Number of attempts: 5

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #15 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 42
Position: #10 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3590 / 4209
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #307 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #571 / 1269
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 267
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1098 / 2138
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2227 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #522 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #148 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #161 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #309 / 400
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 974 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #50 / 163
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #86 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #280 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #116 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 1191
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1180 / 4189
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2375 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2726 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 63
Position: #30 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2141 / 3737
Number of attempts: 2