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Rail fence transposition cipher

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Start file

TeesfothfseadoeoeflowlbBueehlsefrteatrnmrpwruyuilercLe

End file

ThelesseffortthefasterandmorepowerfulyouwillbeBruceLee

View Diff

1c1
< TeesfothfseadoeoeflowlbBueehlsefrteatrnmrpwruyuilercLe
---
> ThelesseffortthefasterandmorepowerfulyouwillbeBruceLee

Solutions

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Created by: @octotep Tweet

26 active golfers, 84 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

03/18/2015 at 09:58AM

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#2 - aborilov / @aborilov

03/18/2015 at 12:08PM

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#3 - Grigoriy Glushko / @grinderrz

03/19/2015 at 03:46PM

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#4 - John Braxler / @braxler

03/20/2015 at 02:10PM

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#5 - Alex Grabyo / @alex_grabyo

03/23/2015 at 03:00PM

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06/25/2024 at 05:35AM

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#7 - nickGPT / @nickandbro

08/28/2024 at 04:21AM

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#8 - Petro Тrouq / @zulolosi

03/19/2015 at 08:11PM

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#9 - Ivan Brennan / @ivanbrennan

03/21/2015 at 02:00AM

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#10 - pftb12345 / @pftb12345

04/10/2015 at 03:07PM

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#11 - mevmev / @mevmev8

12/17/2020 at 12:38AM

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#12 - E Both / @enboth

04/10/2015 at 12:18PM

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#13 - Kai Yuan / @kentyuan

03/18/2015 at 09:37AM

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#14 - Raj / @brshenoy

05/07/2015 at 04:26PM

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#15 - chrisheithoff / @chrisheithoff

03/20/2015 at 03:28AM

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#16 - Jon Krause / @jkrause314

11/16/2015 at 01:20AM

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#17 - Matt / @mcr05

03/18/2015 at 10:09PM

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#18 - Georgi Georgiev / @GeorgievGeorgeS

03/19/2015 at 06:29PM

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#19 - Marcelo Montu / @_mMontu_

03/18/2015 at 04:09PM

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#20 - Walker Boh / @walker_boh

11/24/2015 at 09:09AM

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#21 - Louis Caruana / @louiecaruana

03/18/2015 at 11:10PM

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#22 - Andreas Carben / @meiner_eins

03/22/2015 at 07:56PM

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#23 - Chris Hubschneider / @CHubschneider

04/19/2016 at 11:04PM

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#24 - Krzysztof / @Krzysztof2K

03/28/2015 at 06:02AM

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#25 - Anoop Kumar / @anooplive

03/18/2015 at 03:40AM

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#26 - ಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯ ಜೋಶಿ / @subbucoding

03/29/2015 at 12:38AM