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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 5192f96ad8df110002000002

Words in parens

We should all ace this, right?

Start file

one two
three

End file

(one) (two)
(three)

View Diff

1,2c1,2
< one two
< three
---
> (one) (two)
> (three)

Solutions

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3970 active golfers, 12969 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#3571 - Olik / @oli33k

07/15/2015 at 02:09PM

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#3572 - Stani Banani / @Stani_Banani

09/10/2015 at 11:04PM

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#3573 - anonrab / @anonrab

12/28/2015 at 03:33PM

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#3574 - Jasbir Singh / @jasbirsingh11

01/18/2016 at 04:51PM

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#3575 - Elias Nyström / @nighstrom

01/27/2016 at 07:56AM

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#3576 - Camron Flanders / @camflan

03/25/2016 at 01:25PM

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#3577 - Andy / @mayuyu48a

04/20/2016 at 04:23AM

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#3578 - Evan / @Klekticist

05/02/2016 at 11:13AM

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#3579 - Chris Armstrong / @ChrisATweets

05/19/2016 at 11:18PM

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#3580 - Brian Cantrell / @briancantrell

09/01/2016 at 07:47PM

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#3581 - a1exwang / @ice_b0und

09/05/2016 at 06:22AM

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#3582 - Filype / @FilypePereira

12/26/2016 at 03:50AM

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#3583 - Atsushi Terada / @terada_atsushi

03/29/2017 at 11:44AM

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#3584 - python-tweepy / @python_tweepy

05/15/2017 at 01:47AM

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#3585 - 三井 源 / @mitsuigh

07/24/2017 at 07:31PM

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#3586 - poster board / @mm_mut_mu11

11/11/2017 at 07:45PM

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#3587 - manos koustelakis / @KoutsManos

11/18/2017 at 07:08PM

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#3588 - P. Bogaard / @Pepbogaard

01/21/2018 at 01:37AM

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#3589 - Markus Ankenbrand / @IIMOG

02/10/2018 at 09:02PM

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#3590 - Vincent Dahmen / @wahrwolf

03/29/2018 at 02:59PM

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#3591 - Alex Budilovsky / @alexbudy

05/02/2018 at 01:30AM

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#3592 - Walerian Sobczak / @walerian777

05/04/2018 at 10:22AM

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#3593 - 신지훈 / @iwUeDn1UGj3aXZ3

06/29/2018 at 08:37AM

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#3594 - Jonathan Kim / @jonykim16

08/20/2018 at 04:46AM

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#3595 - 伺か / @ojiry

09/20/2018 at 09:37AM

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#3596 - Omar Zeidan / @OZeidan97

11/13/2018 at 12:27PM

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#3597 - leziak2 / @leziak2

12/24/2018 at 01:30AM

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#3598 - Kyle Safran / @kylesafran

01/19/2019 at 02:09AM

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#3599 - Patrick Lavin / @LavinComputes

01/31/2019 at 03:30PM

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#3600 - Thilo Rörig / @scholith

02/21/2019 at 09:31PM