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Chucking wood

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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Solutions

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