One part where I always felt (and still feel) that I could improve on my Vim usage, is when moving around. I don’t use the mouse, I don’t use the arrow keys, but for a while now I felt that spamming hjkl to get from one place to another is not really efficient. To be honest, it is kind of easy to just press down jjjjjjj … to move down lines. Went a bit too far? Just kk back. But there has to be a better way.

I started using vim 3, 4 years ago. The way I use it is that I started out with no plugins and with a handful of lines in .vimrc. It is far too easy to cram all kind of stuff into it and then get lost in the myriads of key combinations. To prevent that, I decided to slowly add in bits and pieces I find lacking in my day to day usage of vim. Also allows me to first learn the editor and later the plugins.