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A Simple One

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Start file

999 1999

End file

1024 2048

View Diff

1c1
< 999 1999
---
> 1024 2048

Solutions

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Created by: @bjjwillis Tweet

667 active golfers, 1057 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Brad / @bjjwillis

12/30/2010 at 05:37AM

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#2 - Douglas Stockwell / @dstockwell

12/30/2010 at 05:42AM

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#3 - Josh Weinberg / @jcweinberg

12/30/2010 at 05:42AM

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#4 - Aviv Ben-Yosef / @avivby

12/30/2010 at 05:49AM

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#5 - Wei Dai / @clvv42

12/30/2010 at 05:54AM

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#6 - Dhruva Sagar / @dhruvasagar

12/30/2010 at 05:55AM

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#7 - Austin Taylor / @austintaylor

12/30/2010 at 05:57AM

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#8 - Matthew Draper / @_matthewd

12/30/2010 at 06:00AM

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#9 - Pierre / @Pihour

12/30/2010 at 06:15AM

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#10 - Ankit Shankar / @thelastnode

12/30/2010 at 06:26AM

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#11 - Fer Enaf / @0x00C0FFEE

12/30/2010 at 06:53AM

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#12 - Alain Gilbert / @alain_gilbert

12/30/2010 at 06:58AM

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#13 - Nadja Untendiegruft / @nadjau

12/30/2010 at 07:29AM

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#14 - Utkarsh Kukreti / @utkarshkukreti

12/30/2010 at 08:23AM

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#15 - Takayuki Tsukitani / @tsukkee

12/30/2010 at 08:30AM

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#16 - Marian Schubert / @MarianSchubert

12/30/2010 at 08:30AM

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#17 - Mark McD ☠ / @snuff_man

12/30/2010 at 08:40AM

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#18 - Benoit D / @Anbcorp

12/30/2010 at 09:02AM

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#19 - Behnam Esfahbod / @zwnj

12/30/2010 at 09:20AM

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#20 - h_east (トロッコ6個) / @h_east

12/30/2010 at 09:20AM

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#21 - YB / @ybudowski

12/30/2010 at 09:24AM

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#22 - Kornél Lugosi / @Coornail

12/30/2010 at 09:33AM

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#23 - Henrik Nyh / @henrik

12/30/2010 at 09:35AM

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#24 - raj / @rajlekkala

12/30/2010 at 09:36AM

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#25 - Shrikant Sharat / @sharat87

12/30/2010 at 10:03AM

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#26 - Lee Jarvis / @lee_jarvis

12/30/2010 at 10:03AM

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#27 - Fred Nias / @frednias

12/30/2010 at 10:27AM

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#28 - Mikel Ward / @mikelward

12/30/2010 at 10:46AM

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#29 - Janusz Bossy / @YANOUSHek

12/30/2010 at 10:53AM

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#30 - Kevin Merlin / @mp3merlin

12/30/2010 at 11:02AM