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24 alternatives to Practical Vim

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Practical Vim launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
VIM Adventures▲88
Learning VIM while playing a game
2015 · vim-adventures.com · its alternatives →
2
vim.so▲444
Learn vim fast with interactive exercises in the browser
2021 · learnvim.com · its alternatives →
3
I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster▲667
Learn vim fast by building muscle memory. 2000+ engineers learned vim with our hands on training. Train your fingers, master vim commands!
2021 · vim.so · its alternatives →
4
Atom▲145
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →
5
Master Vim▲70
Learn Vim with interactive exercises
2021 · vim.is · its alternatives →
6
I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster▲344
Hey show HN! This course came about as a result of wanting a more targeted way of practicing using new vim commands I wanted to pick up, rather than just trying to use them in my regular code editing sessions. When I would try to use new commands during code editing, my productivity took a hit because I was trying to do two different things at once: thinking about code vs practicing my muscle memory. So, I made a separate environment for practicing, one that had an interactive editor, progress tracking, and achievement goals to let me see which areas I should work on, like speed and…
2022 · vimified.com · its alternatives →
7
Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor▲120
A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
9
Macaw▲90
A simple code editor for Swift
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
10
VIM Clutch▲3
A hardware pedal for improved text editing speed
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
11
lagom▲109
A simplistic presentation generator
2016 · lagom.re.im · its alternatives →
12
Edit Better▲64
Hollywood-tested strategies for powerful video editing
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Squire▲123
The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.
2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →
14
MuM▲93
A reading-first Markdown engine for macOS
5d ago · mum.jiker.ai · its alternatives →
15
Addr▲98
A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader
2014 · its alternatives →
16
CotEditor▲102
The free plain-text editor for OS X
2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →
17
PostScripting▲111
Proofreading and editing done right
2015 · postscripting.net · its alternatives →
18
CodeLook▲96
Quick Look code previews with 700+ editor themes
Sep 2026 · codelook.app · its alternatives →
19
Fulvid▲86
A standalone desktop editor for Markdown and MDX
13d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
20
Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think▲62
Little book of big ideas
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21AB
A bookmarklet for Jimmy-rigging Github's editor with Vim mode▲46
2011 · misfo.github.com · its alternatives →
22
Live-Editable Svelte Pages▲7
Mar 2026 · svedit.dev · its alternatives →
23VA
(vy) A nifty vim-like editor running on python3 now▲6
https://github.com/iogf/vy
2017 · its alternatives →
24AS
A Site for Learning Vim▲41
Your coworker who uses Vim is 3x faster than you and they know it. They smile about it. Not for much longer. Interactive exercises, runs in your browser.
2021 · vim.is · its alternatives →

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