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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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3983 active golfers, 13024 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#3361 - Jose Javier Trapero / @jjaviertb

08/29/2013 at 07:05PM

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#3362 - The pilgrim / @panpielgrzym

09/10/2013 at 08:33PM

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#3363 - Felix Angerborn / @FelixAngerborn

09/20/2013 at 11:10PM

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#3364 - James T. Huggett / @Jmeshka

09/26/2013 at 09:24AM

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#3365 - venkatakrishnan / @venkatk_

10/03/2013 at 09:02PM

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#3366 - Greg Spurrier / @gregspurrier

10/09/2013 at 11:12PM

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#3367 - Ori Kremer / @orikremer

10/25/2013 at 08:07PM

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#3368 - Jay Rajput / @jayrajput

10/26/2013 at 02:00PM

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#3369 - Ismail Tigrek / @IsmailTigrek

10/27/2013 at 08:38PM

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#3370 - Derek Louie / @dklouie

10/31/2013 at 06:51PM

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#3371 - Anthony / @Scatchell

11/07/2013 at 02:06PM

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#3372 - Andrew Ruder / @aeruder

11/07/2013 at 04:16PM

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#3373 - Alberto Sadde / @titicox

11/09/2013 at 09:55PM

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#3374 - Adam Mulligan / @amulligan

11/10/2013 at 07:41PM

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#3375 - Matteo Giaccone / @Mat_Jack1

11/13/2013 at 09:46PM

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#3376 - Alexander Scherbinin / @realmyst

11/15/2013 at 03:32PM

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#3377 - fehtrar / @fehtrar

11/30/2013 at 02:13AM

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#3378 - phalkunz / @phalkunz

12/03/2013 at 03:29AM

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#3379 - Wayne Franklin / @waf1waf

12/03/2013 at 02:18PM

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#3380 - Alex Rutkowski / @alexmarie84

12/04/2013 at 10:09PM

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#3381 - Rémi Labeyrie / @rlabeyrie

12/06/2013 at 03:26PM

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#3382 - Zach Kemp / @zvksf

12/13/2013 at 08:39AM

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#3383 - Hersh Singh / @HershSingh

12/15/2013 at 06:12PM

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#3384 - André Matheus / @andreroquem

12/20/2013 at 06:03PM

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#3385 - Bobby Burden / @bobbyrburden

12/20/2013 at 07:49PM

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#3386 - pikaren / @REALpikaren

12/21/2013 at 02:01AM

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#3387 - Salleyron Julien / @juguul

12/29/2013 at 04:55PM

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#3388 - Tan Le ☺ / @tancnle

01/02/2014 at 06:34AM

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#3389 - Jan Willem / @jagij

01/02/2014 at 01:38PM

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#3390 - Matt Parnell / @parnmattdev

01/02/2014 at 09:56PM