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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 22
Position: #2118 / 7420
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #27 / 261
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #23 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #319 / 1268
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #106 / 1537
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #640 / 3864
Number of attempts: 9

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: 19
Position: #3 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #10 / 155
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 579
Number of attempts: 3

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: 9
Position: #65 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #720 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #232 / 851
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #45 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

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: 19
Position: #40 / 249
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #490 / 3063
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #189 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #155 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #381 / 1162
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #108 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #314 / 1876
Number of attempts: 8

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #55 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #84 / 380
Number of attempts: 5

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #16 / 126
Number of attempts: 7

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #47 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #61 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #156 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #646 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1366 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #256 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #297 / 1264
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #64 / 267
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #541 / 2128
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #272 / 672
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #38 / 503
Number of attempts: 7

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #47 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #219 / 391
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: 20
Position: #12 / 163
Number of attempts: 7

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #69 / 264
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 448
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #472 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1014 / 4180
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #282 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1503 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #168 / 702
Number of attempts: 12

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1090 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #87 / 754
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #605 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 150
Position: #117 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #33 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #623 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #166 / 1706
Number of attempts: 7