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Life & fun · January 20, 2021

I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

Learn vim fast by building muscle memory. 2000+ engineers learned vim with our hands on training. Train your fingers, master vim commands!

I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster launched on January 20, 2021 with 667 votes, #6 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Vim.so is an interactive online course designed to help users learn Vim more efficiently. It provides hands-on practice and instruction for the popular text editor, making it suitable for developers and programmers who want to improve their Vim skills. The course combines interactive lessons with practical exercises to accelerate the learning process.

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A concise interactive course to help you learn vim quickly. Learn fast with exercises that teach you vim through muscle memory. All your other tools are purpose built for developers, and with vim, so is your text editing and navigation. Your browser doesn't support HTML video. Here is a link to the video instead. Developers at top companies choose our interactive vim tutorial. Here's what they have to say. How have I overlooked VIm for so long 😍✨.@KennethCassel's course is awesome. Adding a run of all exercises to my daily routine. @KennethCassel Bought it 🤣. I have to admit I only know 2% of VIM commands to change system configs from time to time. This would help me rely less on…from vim.so

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