The Vim Journey Begins (because I chose pain)

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So, I watched MIT’s Lecture 3 on Vim today and honestly way better than the other tutorials I watched. Also found out there is this whole “Editor War” thing between Vim people and VS Code people. Apparently Vim wins if you live in the terminal, VS Code wins everywhere else.

Today’s achievements:

hjkl for moving around (my arrow keys are no longer needed)
:wq to exit (got it first try, which means I am already better than like 50% of people)
w and b to jump between words like I know what I’m doing
dd to delete entire lines (dangerously satisfying)
Everything is just keyboard letters somehow? No mouse needed, which is lowkey CRAZYY!

So yeahh, Vim is hard. Everyone says it gets good eventually (hopefully). I am choosing to believe them for now but the plan is to just stay consistent so I don’t quit by Week 2.

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The Vim Journey Begins (because I chose pain)