Learning VIM while playing a game

The benefits of getting to grips with Vim are immense in terms of editing speed and maintaining your “flow” when you’re on a roll, whether writing code, poetry, or prose, but because the learning curve is so steep for a text editor, it’s very easy to retain habits from your time learning the editor that stick with you well into mastery. Because Vim makes you so fast and fluent, it’s especially hard to root these out because you might not even notice them, but it’s worth it. Here I’ll list some of the more common ones.

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?
Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

VITABS is a guitar tab editor inspired by the legendary Vi text editor. It is created with convenient editing and fast keyboard entry in mind. Keyboard mappings are modeled after Vi and Vim.