Give Me 20 Minutes and I’ll Make You a Vim Motions Expert

I was told 20 minutes but given 22 minutes 😠

Good stuff, thank u
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Nice AI generated script

I have been using vim for a while and I found two new things here : )

I'm slow at coding because I'm dumb not because I use the mouse. We are not the same.

How long on average would you say it takes to become relatively proficient? Like everything it's all muscle memory so I guess it's just how much you do it. Touch typing took me months because even though tools like Tipp10 are there and I forced myself to do it whenever I typed, the muscle memory developed slowly, I wasn't grinding away every day at it so it took me a long time before I could touch type as fast as pecking or hybrid touch /pecking.
That's the frustrating thing for me, just how it's tied directly to muscle memory and no matter what it's going to take me months or years.

what keyboard you're using?

Thank you for this video!!!

Unintuitive, unnecessary, and ridiculous. It's not about speed, it's about feeling like a hacker. Same reason people use Arch.

The vast majority of programming isn't spent typing as fast as possible (which VIM doesn't help with anyway). If VIM was actually good for that, then it would be used outside of the tech world for that purpose. But only autists who need arbitrary reasons to feel technically superior seem to care.

Today I finally get the Meme of Vim -> Vs-Code -> Vim / Beginner -> Intermediate -> Cracked.

I've been using vim for almost a week and today I wanted to edit a mistake in this comment with Vim motion. LOL

00:00 - Why Vim Motions Matter
01:07 - Normal Mode and HJKL Basics
02:30 - Insert Mode, Append, Escape
04:38 - Word and Line Movement
07:13 - Find, Repeat, and Count Motions
09:39 - Navigate Large Files
10:51 - Delete, Copy, and Paste
13:21 - Visual Mode and Replace Mode
14:24 - Matching Pairs and Text Objects
18:06 - Search, Repeat, and Replace
20:27 - Essential Vim Motion Recap
21:35 - Save, Quit, and Force Quit

thanks

Thank you for the really helpful guide!

What the theme name ?

Please use VS code

10:45 Once you set up Which Key you become a Vim motions expert automatically

2/28/26
start learning vim movement

I prefer regular vim nvim is a bit too bloated for me and the easy configuration is not easy at all

Where to get vim adventures?

How do these work on non english keyboards? To use dollar sign is a multi key operation

5:22 I don’t understand this part. The regex keys still can’t be used in the insert mode, so what’s the point of 0 and $ compared to I and A?

at around 16:57 you are able to use di" to delete within the quotes of a text object below the cursor position. I can't replicate that, for me it only works if it's on the same line. How are you able to do this in nvim?

after microsofts update my pc got so slow i can't even use my vs code. I found out about astro vim. When i first saw it it blew my mind. Its just looks beautiful. Not like ugly editors. I am learning now. But i will get there eventually.

Using neovim genuinely made me type faster

A shortcut ive seen many years ago in a comment made me love vim so much when i was frustrated about the ESC being so far on keyboard. An official shortcut for ESC is " CTRL+[ "

The intro to this video is such an attack on non vimmers it's hilarious haha

i wouldn’t say I am a neovim wizard, but there is no way I can back and not use vim motions

Better yet, put it in 2X speed and teach me in 10

please I need one about registers bcs I always screw them up

Bro my left pinkie is so weak lol

1:38 also known as LDRRR~~~

I use Zed, with many keybindings, making me never use my mouse, and actually making me as fast (or even faster for some actions) as a vim user

There are too many situations where you don't explain well turning this video into a 40 minutes experience. Do it slower when explaining and use the correct words.

Vim is still utter moon logic to me.

Maybe I've missed it, but I think it's also worth to mention :"+y which is used for copying the text into the right buffer from which you can later ctrl + v outside of the editor.

This made me a neovim expert 😅

It doesnt make sense that the home row keys are jkl; and the movement keys are hjkl. You can remap that with:
:nnoremap j h

:nnoremap k j

:nnoremap l k

:nnoremap ; l

:nnoremap h ;
notice that no keys are lost since ; is swapped back with h. You can also speed up the cursor movement in your OS settings so that these cursor movement keys become very fast.

bro looks like a mugshot in the thumbnail lol

if you're gonna show a stackoverflow post in the video, can you link it so people can actually find that answer

It's bad tutorial for some new folks!

i do not switch from mouse to keyboard. i instead compensate with apm on the arrow keys in nano x)))))))))

is any of this actually faster than vscode? a lot of this is built in vscode (like line select/delete etc) and I dont mean the vim addon.

vim is hugely overrated. and using a mouse isn't inferior in any way. if you believe that, stop using a graphical OS and work in a terminal for everything. lets see how loing that lasts. no browser, no MacOS just use a dumb tty terminal.

I want to see tooltips overlays and i can move to symbol about 100x faster with a mouse than using vim. same for browing, if you actually think enabling vim shortcuts and typing 3 letter obscure keys to click a link is faster than using a mouse you are deluded.

2:48 keys that middle finger is responsible for is higher. It's my first time seeing a keyboard matching the fingers' height difference. Besides being split and ergonomic. It's my dream keyboard i did not have an idea about its existence