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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 56e36925d64dfc4d28000001

Inner hyphens

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Start file

abcdef

End file

a-b-c-d-e-f

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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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Created by: @udioica Tweet

77 active golfers, 124 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

03/13/2016 at 01:08AM

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#2 - Hao Chen / @Chen_Hao

03/13/2016 at 04:08PM

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#3 - John Braxler / @braxler

03/14/2016 at 02:45PM

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#4 - Corsin Pfister / @corsin_pfister

03/24/2016 at 07:56PM

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#5 - Alan Turing / @alantrng

11/14/2016 at 07:12AM

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#6 - Saki Gw / @Sakigw

11/25/2016 at 09:34PM

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#7 - Jeff Kelly / @cheibriados

06/03/2017 at 06:48AM

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#8 - Turkey Man / @lvturkeyman

11/28/2017 at 05:04PM

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#9 - DHM / @DHM29978992

05/27/2018 at 02:16AM

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#10 - vimgolfer / @vimgolfer7

10/17/2019 at 01:45PM

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#11 - 김범준 / @kmbmjn

05/11/2021 at 02:09AM

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#12 - Janzen / @__Coos

10/02/2022 at 01:41PM

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#13 - Cory Knapp / @coryknapp

03/12/2016 at 01:25AM

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#14 - James / @Dronak

03/12/2016 at 01:41AM

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#15 - Tim Chase / @gumnos

03/12/2016 at 01:44AM

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#16 - Jon Krause / @jkrause314

03/12/2016 at 02:42AM

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#17 - we’re going to need a bigger bot / @assaflavie

03/12/2016 at 05:35AM

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#18 - Dmitriy Olshevskiy / @olshevskiy_dv

03/12/2016 at 06:18AM

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#19 - Smylers / @Smylers2

03/12/2016 at 09:36AM

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#20 - glepha / @glepha_vim

03/12/2016 at 10:02AM

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#21 - Andreas Carben / @meiner_eins

03/12/2016 at 10:21AM

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#22 - M S / @b1790037

03/12/2016 at 01:13PM

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#23 - Petro Тrouq / @zulolosi

03/12/2016 at 05:36PM

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#24 - Lifepillar / @lifepillar

03/12/2016 at 10:28PM

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#25 - Trey Thomas / @treythomas123

03/12/2016 at 11:46PM

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#26 - Wistan Chou / @wisty97

03/13/2016 at 05:20AM

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#27 - Anoop Kumar / @anooplive

03/13/2016 at 06:23AM

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#28 - Carlos A Henríquez Q / @lagunex

03/13/2016 at 12:18PM

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#29 - Artur Taranchiev / @ewokru

03/13/2016 at 12:26PM

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#30 - Kai Yuan / @kentyuan

03/13/2016 at 08:08PM