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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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3968 active golfers, 12966 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#571 - Geoff Gu / @geoff_gu

06/28/2015 at 05:37AM

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#572 - Adrian Krehl / @akrehl

07/03/2015 at 11:25AM

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#573 - Louis Burke / @LambdaABeta

07/07/2015 at 03:25PM

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#574 - Steffen Köhler / @Baertierchen

07/11/2015 at 10:10PM

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#575 - Elite Hacker of the Light / @L3E7

07/12/2015 at 09:41PM

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#576 - José Rodrigues / @jyrodrigues

07/18/2015 at 12:50AM

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#577 - Dominique van de Vor / @dvdvorle

07/20/2015 at 07:47AM

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#578 - Hunter Gatewood / @hcgatewood

07/28/2015 at 04:46AM

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#579 - Shubham Sharma / @shubh1337

07/29/2015 at 03:24PM

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#580 - Peter B / @l0wm4x

07/29/2015 at 06:59PM

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#581 - Roben Kleene / @robenkleene

07/30/2015 at 08:33PM

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#582 - Abdo Achkar / @Achkar

07/30/2015 at 09:58PM

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#583 - Agnans / @agnans92

07/30/2015 at 10:59PM

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#584 - Ferdev vimgolf / @fergvimgolf

08/07/2015 at 04:45AM

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#585 - Veritas / @_VeritasL

08/13/2015 at 12:46PM

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#586 - Дима Давыдов / @xaykot

08/14/2015 at 05:09PM

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#587 - Nick Xiao / @nicoster

08/18/2015 at 01:36AM

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#588 - Sam B / @samevanbrenner

08/22/2015 at 03:03AM

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#589 - JS / @jjohsan

08/23/2015 at 07:40PM

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#590 - Dennis Li / @_DennisLi

08/25/2015 at 07:46AM

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#591 - Dennis Burke / @ikirudennis

08/27/2015 at 05:37PM

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#592 - Jesse Atkinson / @jsatk

08/29/2015 at 02:26AM

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#593 - T A / @SirAviles

08/29/2015 at 09:04PM

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#594 - Sime Buljac / @sim_bul

08/31/2015 at 01:24PM

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#595 - Kirill Cherkashin / @kirjs

08/31/2015 at 09:04PM

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#596 - oscar / @zonza_mas

09/02/2015 at 01:22PM

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#597 - Nicholas Marrone / @nickmarrone

09/05/2015 at 10:40PM

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#598 - Slobodan Mišković / @slobomiskovic

09/08/2015 at 05:56AM

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#599 - MikeT / @mik3t

09/11/2015 at 02:39AM

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#600 - Joey / @joeyism101

09/11/2015 at 03:18AM