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Do you demand a shrubbery?

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

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:Ni!

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:Ni!


Do you demand a shrubbery?

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Solutions

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300 active golfers, 1158 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#181 - Pepe / @GomTvIneluki

08/15/2014 at 12:12AM

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#182 - Haoxuan Yue / @yuehaoxuanar

08/20/2014 at 03:14AM

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#183 - ぷりケツにるぽ / @nillpo

12/27/2014 at 05:54AM

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#184 - JW / @justuswilhelm

01/06/2015 at 09:24PM

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#185 - Clark DuVall / @theclarkatron

05/17/2015 at 01:40AM

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#186 - Mike Marion / @mikejmarion

05/09/2017 at 10:59PM

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#187 - Joshua Draper / @JoshuaBDraper

08/23/2014 at 12:26AM

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#188 - RockerZZY / @rocker_zzy

06/12/2020 at 12:47PM

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#189 - Kelsey Ando / @d_chan42

07/03/2014 at 06:33PM

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#190 - Stefan Schmidt / @stafue

08/08/2014 at 01:24PM

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#191 - Justin Knag / @justinknag

08/28/2014 at 12:02PM

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#192 - Laura Halla / @laura_halla

07/08/2014 at 08:08PM

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#193 - Malte R / @maltoe

11/10/2014 at 04:04PM

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#194 - Deepak Surti / @dmsurti

03/18/2015 at 09:00AM

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#195 - Holden Lewis / @lonnez90

12/11/2015 at 07:30PM

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#196 - eBrnd / @eBrnd

11/02/2014 at 02:02PM

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#197 - Dr Rev J. “I am not a bot!” Kirchartz, KSC, KHS / @JKirchartz

01/16/2015 at 05:56AM

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#198 - Dmitry Zudochkin / @zudochkin

02/19/2015 at 05:21PM

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#199 - Martijn Pepping / @mpepping

03/16/2015 at 09:33PM

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#200 - ಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯ ಜೋಶಿ / @subbucoding

03/29/2015 at 03:27PM

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#201 - Roberto Carraretto / @robcarraretto

01/17/2016 at 02:20PM

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#202 - TweetDreams / @TweetMusicians

10/15/2016 at 04:35AM

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#203 - Cristian Lupașcu / @clupasq

10/21/2016 at 01:12PM

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#204 - Anas Salah Eddin / @asalaheddin

12/14/2016 at 05:56AM

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#205 - Solomon / @Trugbildjaeger

08/25/2017 at 11:02AM

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#206 - Grant / @grant_7788

05/30/2019 at 01:51AM

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#207 - 于吉星 / @fishermryn

05/29/2020 at 03:27AM

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#208 - Michel Viktor / @tomkpz

08/11/2021 at 11:20PM

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#209 - KoroneListener / @KoroneListener

09/04/2024 at 01:24PM

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#210 - Geoff / @RealGeoffErwin

12/18/2017 at 09:49PM