The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.
Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
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Re: Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
#12Uses unholy amounts of CPU making my laptop's fans spin out of control. Editing is very slow, too. Not really a good impression of vim. I'm still going to recommend people to use vimtutor to get used to vim.
Hmm, I’ll look into the CPU processing performance. Maybe it’s the menu animations? And yes vimtutor continues to be a great resource that Braam made. I mainly made this app to gamify learning the vim skills.
Re: Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
#13https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf
I assume you're not the creator of vimgolf so I'll leave this here for source reference
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#14I've wanted something like this for quite a while. I'm such a "basic" vim user, despite the fact that I'm 20 years into it... I do everything in INSERT mode, like a pleb. These might actually help me start using vim as it was intended to be
Thank you so much for your feedback!
My only criticism is, could there be a tutorial mode? There's nowhere to actually walk you through any of the steps, the "teaching your cursor to walk" thing doesn't, to my knowledge, actually teach you - you have to figure it out for yourself, it just tells you how much worse you did than the bot.
Re: Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
#15https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf I assume you're not the creator of vimgolf so I'll leave this here for source reference
Vimgolf.com is another great way to learn Vim. I created Vimgolf.ai mainly to challenge users by comparing their score against bot entries.
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#16The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.
My app is actually cheaper than vim-adventures or other popular paid Vim learning sites. If you are against using my app, I encourage you to use vimtutor. A great free way to learn Vim.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you so much for your feedback!
My only criticism is, could there be a tutorial mode? There's nowhere to actually walk you through any of the steps, the "teaching your cursor to walk" thing doesn't, to my knowledge, actually teach you - you have to figure it out for yourself, it just tells you how much worse you did than the bot.
I’ll look into making it more user intuitive. I tried in a way through the gifs, but I could find other ways to help guide the user more.
Re: Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
#18can you make the "Next level" button capture the enter key stroke? That way you'd never have to leave the keyboard
Re: Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
#19can you make the "Next level" button capture the enter key stroke? That way you'd never have to leave the keyboard
Brilliant, I’ll add that today
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#20That page was overwhelming and visually tiring for me, especially with the animation, so I gave up on it, sorry.