Learn vim without enduring boring text only tutorials. vim.so gets you the muscle repetition needed to master vim quickly using interactive exercises. Vim adds code editing super powers to your editor of choice. Learn vim fast today!
Hey guys!
One of the best things I learned last year for my developer experience was vim.
I found that the normal way to learn vim was kind of boring and took a long time to really memorize the useful commands.
So I built vim.so. It helps you get the muscle memory needed to be useful in vim faster than was possible before.
Some features:
- Learn in the browser
- Learn with muscle memory based exercises
- 10 interactive lessons and 1 overview video
- Learn the most useful commands so that you can be effective in vim faster.
@kennethcassel hey this is super awesome! I've always had an interest in VIM but everytime I thought of it, I'd always tell myself, "ugh no time for that". This is really exciting to me! I came across it during my search for the best personal knowledge database program and vim came up everytime. I would never see someone with a neutral opinion on it - the comments were always from the die hard vim obsessed. When I get paid I'll be sure to keep this at the top of my shopping list as well as get started asap! Thank you friend
@shannon_byrne Thanks for the kind words Shannon!
It's funny, I'm not a vim zealot and I realize it's not for everyone. That being said, I do think it should be more approachable and I hope vim.so does just that for folks :)
@ryan___doyle Thanks Ryan! It's been a ton of fun and super helpful to me doing this out in public for sure. The site wouldn't be 1/2 as good without all the great feedback from the twitter dev community :)
My experience was pretty underwhelming tbh. I've been JUST BARELY getting started learning vim, and while I am a programmer, figure I'm as good a learner as the next Joe Blow. That said, I already knew pretty much everything in this course. I'm not kidding, I knew everything listed in all of the lessons. I think this might be a good immediate starter course, but I think it would be a lot better if it were less pricey.
It's a very cool concept but it needs to be fleshed out a lot to make it worth the purchase price. I would say that given the lack of diversity within the exercises that it is not a very effective learning tool in its current state.
I liked:
The drill concept seems like a good way to learn quickly
The timer keeps track of your progress
Instructions are concise
I didn't like:
Not very many exercises
Doesn't cover all of Vim
Not enough different tasks within each exercise: typically it is 1-3 tasks that move to different line numbers.
Doesn't keep track of your speed so you can't see if you are improving
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