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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #6770 / 7422
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 - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #959 / 1268
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6312 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #1158 / 1537
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3260 / 3865
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 - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #261 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #346 / 579
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 - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1440 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #452 / 851
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #141 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 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 / 249
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10860 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2679 / 3064
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #460 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #561 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #992 / 1162
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #677 / 865
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #1504 / 1876
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #215 / 230
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 - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #515 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2872 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 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3856 / 4198
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #316 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #711 / 1264
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 - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1111 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2219 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: #498 / 672
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #375 / 503
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #236 / 248
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 - 1181 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #139 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #346 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1002 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1935 / 4181
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2847 / 3684
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2740 / 3964
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1247 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1847 / 3696
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6984 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 43
Position: #1056 / 1708
Number of attempts: 3