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Ninjas Leaderboard

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Start file
['l', 'b', '@', 'o', 's', 'd', 'd', '.', 'L', 'a', 'm', 'o', 'f', 'c', 'm', 'g', 'r', 'v', 'r', 'i', 'o', 'e', 'a', 'j', 'e', 'n', 'i', 'n', '_', 'a']
[25, 19, 27, 23, 9, 4, 28, 8, 21, 22, 6, 24, 18, 1, 11, 29, 16, 5, 2, 17, 26, 10, 15, 20, 0, 12, 7, 13, 3, 14]
End file
['l', 'b', '@', 'o', 's', 'd', 'd', '.', 'L', 'a', 'm', 'o', 'f', 'c', 'm', 'g', 'r', 'v', 'r', 'i', 'o', 'e', 'a', 'j', 'e', 'n', 'i', 'n', '_', 'a']
[25, 19, 27, 23, 9, 4, 28, 8, 21, 22, 6, 24, 18, 1, 11, 29, 16, 5, 2, 17, 26, 10, 15, 20, 0, 12, 7, 13, 3, 14]
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#41 MP / @Enemy_m - Score: 77 - 09/26/13 @ 18:40 
y$:let a=<C-R>"<CR>+y$:let i=<C-R>"<CR>:for n in range(30)|pu=a[i[n]]|endfo<CR>3GqaJxq28@abXZZ

@Enemy_m: Learned some tricks from ninja Learderboard !

@zulolosi: 64 keystrokes pure vimscript solution: :$pu=join(map(eval(getline(2)),'eval(getline(1))[v:val]'),'')<CR>ZZ

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Created by: @zulolosi

41 active golfers, 99 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):
35
#31 - devper94 / @devper94

03/16/2014 at 09:57AM

35
#32 - Joonas Pihlajamaa / @jokkebk

03/27/2014 at 08:41AM

35
#33 - Robert Goeddel / @f0rdpr3fect

11/13/2015 at 08:27PM

35
#34 - Kanmuruuruu / @Kanmuruuruu

04/06/2024 at 09:24PM

36
#35 - Hachez Floran / @FloranHachez

09/28/2013 at 07:26PM

36
#36 - Awakening George / @GeorgeC_monster

12/26/2018 at 08:34PM

37
#37 - Zenk Alia / @zenkalia

10/17/2013 at 12:55AM

43
#38 - Bambu / @bambumandinga

01/09/2014 at 05:36AM

45
#39 - RobertT / @techrt2050

05/29/2014 at 05:15AM

64
#40 - Denis Otkidach / @otkds

02/04/2014 at 01:03PM

77
#41 - MP / @Enemy_m

09/26/2013 at 06:40PM