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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 55358965015b7c2d46000001

Shuffled numbers

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Start file

nine: eight
twelve: eleven
seventeen: sixteen
nineteen: eighteen
two: one
twenty: nineteen
five: four
eighteen: seventeen
one: -
sixteen: fifteen
thirteen: twelve
three: two
eight: seven
ten: nine
six: five
fourteen: thirteen
fifteen: fourteen
four: three
seven: six
eleven: ten

End file

one: -
two: one
three: two
four: three
five: four
six: five
seven: six
eight: seven
nine: eight
ten: nine
eleven: ten
twelve: eleven
thirteen: twelve
fourteen: thirteen
fifteen: fourteen
sixteen: fifteen
seventeen: sixteen
eighteen: seventeen
nineteen: eighteen
twenty: nineteen

View Diff

1,8d0
< nine: eight
< twelve: eleven
< seventeen: sixteen
< nineteen: eighteen
< two: one
< twenty: nineteen
< five: four
< eighteen: seventeen
10,11c2
< sixteen: fifteen
< thirteen: twelve
---
> two: one
12a4,7
> four: three
> five: four
> six: five
> seven: six
13a9
> nine: eight
15c11,13
< six: five
---
> eleven: ten
> twelve: eleven
> thirteen: twelve
18,20c16,20
< four: three
< seven: six
< eleven: ten
---
> sixteen: fifteen
> seventeen: sixteen
> eighteen: seventeen
> nineteen: eighteen
> twenty: nineteen

Solutions

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Created by: @udioica Tweet

96 active golfers, 246 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Kai Yuan / @kentyuan

04/21/2015 at 09:38AM

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#2 - pftb12345 / @pftb12345

04/21/2015 at 10:55AM

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#3 - John Braxler / @braxler

04/21/2015 at 12:04PM

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#4 - we’re going to need a bigger bot / @assaflavie

04/21/2015 at 03:03PM

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#5 - Raj / @brshenoy

04/21/2015 at 03:51PM

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#6 - Tim Chase / @gumnos

04/21/2015 at 04:20PM

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#7 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

04/21/2015 at 04:23PM

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#8 - Evan Coleman / @edc1591

04/21/2015 at 06:19PM

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#9 - matthieu le grix / @mlegrix

04/21/2015 at 07:56PM

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#10 - Louis Caruana / @louiecaruana

04/22/2015 at 01:22AM

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#11 - Slartibartfast / @S_Bartfast

04/22/2015 at 08:51AM

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#12 - horace / @hor1ace

04/22/2015 at 11:39AM

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#13 - Fan Zhang / @2bDeactivat3d

04/22/2015 at 10:06PM

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#14 - Petro Тrouq / @zulolosi

04/23/2015 at 06:12PM

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#15 - E Both / @enboth

04/23/2015 at 09:37PM

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#16 - Ala' Ibrahim / @alaa_ibrahim

04/25/2015 at 07:53AM

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#17 - Johannes Elferich / @jojoelfe

04/26/2015 at 09:10PM

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#18 - Rui Mendes / @rcm_dium

05/02/2015 at 07:45PM

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#19 - DrHobo / @_DrHobo_

05/10/2015 at 11:00PM

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#20 - Victor Haffreingue / @nobe_4

05/13/2015 at 07:43PM

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#21 - danweaver / @danweaver

05/14/2015 at 05:49AM

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#22 - Lifepillar / @lifepillar

06/23/2015 at 07:46PM

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#23 - Mutter Mumble / @muttermumble

07/10/2015 at 12:39PM

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#24 - Louis Burke / @LambdaABeta

07/10/2015 at 01:17PM

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#25 - Teemu Okkonen / @TeemuOkkonen

07/12/2015 at 09:24PM

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#26 - Ferdev vimgolf / @fergvimgolf

08/13/2015 at 09:42PM

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#27 - Liam Thurston / @lthurston188

08/17/2015 at 05:33AM

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#28 - Mike Adams / @davis_cromwell

10/06/2015 at 12:57AM

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#29 - Walker Boh / @walker_boh

10/09/2015 at 09:39AM

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#30 - Aleksey Zhidkov / @AlexeyZhidkov

05/31/2016 at 06:08AM