Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

I still use the mouse from time to time when editing text mind you. But for most actions, I would not think of moving my hand to the mouse, because it is slow.

Even before vim, I made gratuitous use of end of line navigation via keyboard (home/end buttons; cmd+arrow keys). vim is just a more powerful version of those buttons.

I make no claim that vim is the MOST efficient platform ever created, but it's a lot faster than mouse+keyboard and/or out of the box editing methods.

See this definition for muscle memory from Wikipedia:

"Muscle memory is a form of procedural memory that involves consolidating a specific motor task into memory through repetition, which has been used synonymously with motor learning. When a movement is repeated over time, the brain creates a long-term muscle memory for that task, eventually allowing it to be performed with little to no conscious effort. This process decreases the need for attention and creates maximum efficiency within the motor and memory systems. Muscle memory is found in many everyday activities that become automatic and improve with practice, such as riding bicycles, driving motor vehicles, playing ball sports, typing on keyboards, entering PINs, playing musical instruments, poker, martial arts, and dancing."

I don't see why Vim commands would be any different from typing on keyboards, or playing a musical instrument. They are tactile, and rely on motor control.

> and doing it outside of Vim is pointless

I see no reason at all why this should be true. Does the tool let the learner use keyboard to practice memorizing the commands, and they produce the exact same effects as inside Vim? If yes, then by what claim do you say it is pointless? A claim that this tool isn't "the real Vim" feels like a "no true Scotsman" fallacy.

This whole comment reads like sour grapes. Are you mad that it isn't free? Just come out and say that. Perhaps reference Socrates, and how he was angry at the suggestion he charged money for education. Or just point out the free resources and leave it at that. No need to attack him so strongly.

And before someone else says it, yes, I wrote a book about Vim, and no, it isn't free ;)

  :set nu
  / whatever you want to find [return]
  i
  *edit stuff and use arrow keys for nav*
  :wq
  Or :q to quit without saving

The fact that less is installed on many more systems than nano is a testament to the bad assumptions too many devs make about who will be using these systems in the future. And yes, it’s not hard to "apt -y install nano" except at work where we have proxies and internal repos, so now I need to use vim to reconfigure apt sources just so I can use a more normal editor that doesn’t require arcane incantations to perform basic config file editing.