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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 53c66c482b4166000226bbee

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Solutions

The best way to learn is to practice. Below, you will find some of the solutions other golfers have entered. To unlock higher ranked solutions, submit your own entry which does as well or better than the solutions you can currently see - climb the ladder!

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587 active golfers, 2025 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#421 - Florian Duraffourg / @fduraffourg

07/16/2014 at 12:33PM

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#422 - Tanguy Antoine / @tanguyantoine

07/16/2014 at 12:37PM

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#423 - Alexandre Ignjatovic / @bankair

07/16/2014 at 01:01PM

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#424 - Carlos López / @morrizon

07/16/2014 at 07:35PM

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#425 - Heath Patterson / @HeathPatterson

07/17/2014 at 12:31PM

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#426 - Austin Cormier / @lotusmorc

07/17/2014 at 10:45PM

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#427 - Waylon Cude / @waylon531

07/17/2014 at 11:13PM

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#428 - My Info / @kwehlert

07/20/2014 at 03:32AM

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#429 - vansan / @VinceVansan

07/21/2014 at 01:58PM

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#430 - Jorge Chao / @MalcomOSX

07/22/2014 at 11:43PM

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#431 - Saher El-Neklawy / @saherneklawy

07/23/2014 at 07:10AM

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#432 - Matthias Wolf / @matz__e

07/24/2014 at 02:13PM

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#433 - Fernan Smol / @pfos09

07/25/2014 at 02:38PM

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#434 - Cezar Halmagean / @chalmagean

07/25/2014 at 08:03PM

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#435 - Gwilym Kuiper / @gwilymk

07/30/2014 at 08:16AM

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#436 - Sergio Lopez / @wapankh

07/30/2014 at 06:38PM

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#437 - Kartik Shenoy / @kartikshenoy

07/31/2014 at 10:14PM

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#438 - daveseibert / @daveseibert

08/02/2014 at 04:07AM

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#439 - かしゅーなっつ@修行中 / @kashew_nuts

08/02/2014 at 06:32AM

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#440 - Peter Strawson / @PeterStrawson

08/04/2014 at 12:57AM

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#441 - Oliver Christ / @0liverChrist

08/04/2014 at 08:33PM

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#442 - Matias Russitto / @mrussitto

08/05/2014 at 08:58PM

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#443 - JonathanStarnes / @JON_STARNES

08/08/2014 at 02:05AM

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#444 - Robert Dyer / @NavyJim13

08/08/2014 at 11:58PM

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#445 - Mark Robinson / @SparkyRobinson

08/11/2014 at 08:08AM

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#446 - Tj / @yrddy

08/13/2014 at 05:20AM

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#447 - Daniel / @dazn159

08/15/2014 at 06:51PM

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#448 - jabular / @jabular

08/15/2014 at 08:34PM

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#449 - joshuavial / @joshuavial

08/16/2014 at 02:01AM

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#450 - Adv_Zxy / @adv_zxy

08/22/2014 at 05:01AM