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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: 36
Position: #6792 / 7447
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #144 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #176 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #962 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #1166 / 1549
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3266 / 3875
Number of attempts: 2

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #263 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #349 / 583
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #138 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4818 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1443 / 1898
Number of attempts: 3

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: #455 / 857
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #142 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #155 / 251
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2689 / 3074
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #463 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #562 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #998 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #687 / 878
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #1508 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #216 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #42 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 178
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2916 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #516 / 705
Number of attempts: 1

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: #389 / 641
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3868 / 4213
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #317 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #714 / 1269
Number of attempts: 2

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #224 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1116 / 2140
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #500 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2059 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #377 / 507
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #237 / 249
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: 57
Position: #145 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #139 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #347 / 449
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1003 / 1192
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1940 / 4192
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2853 / 3691
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2744 / 3969
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1248 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1855 / 3744
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 43
Position: #1068 / 1761
Number of attempts: 3