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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 583112d0215b7c3ed2016bdb

Order and join

There's something special about the input order.

Start file

four
one
two
five
three
six

End file

one two three
four five
six

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10 strokes. Probably.

Solutions

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Created by: @udioica Tweet

248 active golfers, 913 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

11/21/2016 at 03:38AM

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#2 - Smylers / @Smylers2

11/21/2016 at 09:37AM

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#3 - John Braxler / @braxler

11/21/2016 at 08:30PM

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#4 - Shea Martin / @sheamus08

11/22/2016 at 04:31AM

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#5 - Michael Buckley / @apolatg

11/23/2016 at 06:05AM

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#6 - Pablo R. Dinella / @pablordinella

11/23/2016 at 07:08PM

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#7 - Majo / @majodurco

11/23/2016 at 08:24PM

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#8 - Saki Gw / @Sakigw

11/25/2016 at 09:28PM

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#9 - dvorak / @dvorak0

11/26/2016 at 11:35AM

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#10 - Luca Giovagnoli / @ryuzaki250

11/26/2016 at 09:40PM

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#11 - rainer b / @roinnerr

12/04/2016 at 09:40PM

10

#12 - Liam S Ismail / @AC01Y

12/06/2016 at 03:36PM

10

#13 - YNWP / @ynw_P

12/07/2016 at 10:33AM

10

#14 - VivienVandaele / @VandaeleVivien

12/10/2016 at 08:51PM

10

#15 - floccwins / @floccwins

12/13/2016 at 02:09PM

10

#16 - Andrew Huang / @TDAlgory

12/18/2016 at 08:25AM

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#17 - Pierre Maoui / @poupougnac

12/19/2016 at 12:19PM

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#18 - thejojo87 / @thejojo1987

12/21/2016 at 06:47AM

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#19 - retro / @tryphopp

12/23/2016 at 01:29PM

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#20 - Jake Utley / @jakeutley

12/29/2016 at 11:38PM

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#21 - Saurav Mitra / @SauravMitra11

12/31/2016 at 10:40AM

10

#22 - Social Botolinum / @SocialBot4

01/08/2017 at 02:45PM

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#23 - Zhihong Liu / @pieapple03

02/03/2017 at 09:11AM

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#24 - Joaquin Coronel / @cantstoptheguac

02/08/2017 at 09:59PM

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#25 - Dan Prince / @danj_prince

02/25/2017 at 01:49AM

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#26 - Eric Beaudoin / @ericlisted

03/13/2017 at 08:28PM

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#27 - Alexander Bessonov / @nonsleepr

03/13/2017 at 09:28PM

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#28 - Ilya Shakirov / @aelaau

03/20/2017 at 09:20AM

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#29 - Andreas Anderbach / @anderbacha

03/20/2017 at 03:42PM

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#30 - Tom BP / @ThosBP

04/20/2017 at 02:22PM