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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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#211 - Greg Humphreys / @humper

12/20/2013 at 02:31AM

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#212 - Nicolas Ouellet / @ashlebede

12/20/2013 at 04:19AM

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#213 - Joshua Appelman / @JoshuaAppelman

12/20/2013 at 07:41PM

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#214 - Mike Ballou / @ballou88

12/20/2013 at 11:34PM

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#215 - winterlight / @winterlight4

12/22/2013 at 02:00PM

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#216 - George C Tsiagalakis / @gts_tw

12/23/2013 at 03:07PM

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#217 - Thiago Prado / @5k1pp3r

12/25/2013 at 12:05PM

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#218 - chilicuil / @chilicuil

12/26/2013 at 08:21PM

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#219 - Herrington Darkholme / @nonamesheep

12/27/2013 at 09:25AM

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#220 - Alex Colson / @alexcolson

12/28/2013 at 03:42AM

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#221 - Rado Kirov / @radokirov

12/29/2013 at 06:21AM

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#222 - Son of Bongo / @bpcode

01/01/2014 at 01:50PM

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#223 - Yann Moisan / @YannMoisan

01/01/2014 at 07:51PM

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#224 - Fabien Cazenave / @fabi1cazenave

01/01/2014 at 11:29PM

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#225 - Gennadiy Leyfer / @gleyfer

01/02/2014 at 08:52AM

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#226 - Alessandro Lisander / @wuiimu

01/04/2014 at 03:42PM

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#227 - Greg Jebb / @jebbster

01/06/2014 at 08:18PM

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#228 - oliver mueller / @marcontwit

01/07/2014 at 10:17AM

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#229 - Joel Gärtner / @Jeerok

01/08/2014 at 05:54PM

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#230 - alexscott / @4l3xsc0tt

01/09/2014 at 12:47PM

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#231 - Chris Brown / @engineercyb

01/10/2014 at 05:49PM

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#232 - Jeffrey Van Alstine / @JeffreyVanAlsti

01/11/2014 at 02:07AM

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#233 - Akash Agrawal / @akshagrwl

01/11/2014 at 06:39AM

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#234 - John / @BerlinSchneider

01/14/2014 at 06:15AM

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#235 - Andreas Källberg / @Anka213

01/16/2014 at 10:07PM

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#236 - 黒猫 / @darkfeline

01/17/2014 at 10:35AM

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#237 - Olivier Lechevalier / @RageZBla

01/19/2014 at 10:48AM

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#238 - John Amicangelo / @AmicangeloJohn

01/21/2014 at 02:45PM

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#239 - Thomas / @lslahrs

01/21/2014 at 09:27PM

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#240 - Travis Millott / @ritherz

01/21/2014 at 11:43PM