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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 5d7f565deac0df000cfc2154

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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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479 active golfers, 1941 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Filipe Brandenburger / @filbranden

08/07/2020 at 11:27PM

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#2 - Łukasz Kadłubowski / @LAKadlubowski

08/21/2020 at 07:58AM

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#3 - speisz / @speiszc

09/04/2020 at 08:57AM

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#4 - dezhonger / @dezhonger

09/06/2020 at 05:00PM

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#5 - John Braxler / @braxler

09/15/2020 at 04:21PM

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#6 - lamtt77 / @lamtt77

10/09/2020 at 03:03AM

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#7 - Dmitry Antonyuk / @dm_antonyuk

10/21/2020 at 10:28PM

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#8 - chocolate / @chocola81394123

10/23/2020 at 09:01AM

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#9 - David Kutschke / @D4KU_

11/15/2020 at 01:19PM

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#10 - Jung Yeon Park / @park_jungy

01/01/2021 at 07:25PM

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#11 - A A A / @37fatos

01/09/2021 at 01:37AM

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#12 - OtterPy / @OtterPy

01/27/2021 at 10:37AM

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#13 - Roman Privalov / @RomanPrivalov

09/21/2021 at 04:14PM

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#14 - Flimsy Giraffe / @flimsy_giraffe

12/01/2021 at 03:26AM

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#15 - Janzen / @__Coos

10/06/2022 at 04:54PM

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#16 - Selvaganapathy P / @canabady

04/24/2023 at 06:25AM

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#17 - Maksim / @its_terra

12/30/2019 at 11:04PM

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#18 - Saki Gw / @Sakigw

01/02/2020 at 05:04PM

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#19 - Tefe / @tefetic

01/02/2020 at 09:32PM

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#20 - Tyler Culdler / @culdler

01/08/2020 at 06:24AM

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#21 - lev / @nouvelliu

01/10/2020 at 03:30AM

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#22 - Stefan Bjarnason / @stefanttb

01/12/2020 at 12:11AM

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#23 - Ard / @kokojarjar

02/18/2020 at 12:42PM

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#24 - howanto / @ho_wan_

02/19/2020 at 11:35AM

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#25 - yhetsugiHMC / @yhetsugi

02/25/2020 at 01:38AM

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#26 - countime / @countime1

03/05/2020 at 04:25AM

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#27 - Matthew / @Burfield12

03/06/2020 at 11:04AM

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#28 - Wouter Horlings / @Achilleshiel

03/12/2020 at 11:33AM

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#29 - Abhay Shanker Pathak / @AbhayShankerPa2

03/20/2020 at 04:28AM

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#30 - nicosierra / @nicosierra84

03/22/2020 at 10:01PM