Practice Neovim / Vim keyboard shortcuts

Drill all 109 until you don't have to think about them.

modal muscle memory, from the home row up

Factory-default Vim/Neovim bindings only — no plugins, leader maps, or user config; keys are identical on macOS and Windows because Vim's grammar ignores platform modifiers, and mouse/scroll/menu actions are excluded as undrillable.

Drill the Neovim / Vim deck free →

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The progression

Every deck is graded 1 to 6: level 1 is the reflex core, the top level is where the specialists live. One move from each, so you can see how far it goes.

1. Level 113 moves

   Return to Normal mode from Insert or Visual mode

   Escape

   The mode you land in before every command; the reflex that keeps modal editing safe.

   …and 12 more at this level

2. Level 220 moves

   Repeat the last change command

   .

   Replays your last edit, the engine behind edit-once-repeat-many.

   …and 19 more at this level

3. Level 323 moves

   Change the word the cursor is inside (text object)

   c theni thenw

   Rewrites the whole word wherever the cursor happens to sit in it.

   …and 22 more at this level

4. Level 426 moves

   Jump forward to a specific character on the line

   f then{char}

   Lands the cursor on a target character in one line-hop.

   …and 25 more at this level

5. Level 520 moves

   Start recording a macro into register 'a'

   q thena

   Starts capturing keystrokes to replay later.

   …and 19 more at this level

6. Level 67 moves

   Jump back to the spot where you last made an edit

   g then;

   the change list remembers where you worked; g; walks it backward

   …and 6 more at this level