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  • I've wanted something like this for quite a while. I'm such a "basic" vim user, despite the fact that I'm 20 years into it... I do everything in INSERT mode, like a pleb. These might actually help me start using vim as it was intended to be
    by Hugsbox
  • Thank you so much for your feedback!
    by nickandbro
  • https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf

    I assume you're not the creator of vimgolf so I'll leave this here for source reference

    by VVilhelmsen
  • Vimgolf.com is another great way to learn Vim. I created Vimgolf.ai mainly to challenge users by comparing their score against bot entries.
    by nickandbro
  • can you make the "Next level" button capture the enter key stroke? That way you'd never have to leave the keyboard
    by bhkdotdev
  • Brilliant, I’ll add that today
    by nickandbro
  • I get a Forbidden white screen in the vim "window" and that's that
    by pluc
  • Thanks for the feedback! What browser are you using? Sometimes the containers also don’t work properly with certain VPNs.
    by nickandbro
  • Can you add Helix golf support?
    by nylonstrung
  • I’ll look into it! Definitely worth pursuing
    by nickandbro
  • The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.
    by NewsaHackO
  • My app is actually cheaper than vim-adventures or other popular paid Vim learning sites. If you are against using my app, I encourage you to use vimtutor. A great free way to learn Vim.
    by nickandbro
  • That page was overwhelming and visually tiring for me, especially with the animation, so I gave up on it, sorry.
    by einpoklum
  • The pricing says one time payment but the price is $25 for 6 months.

    Is this 6 months of access or 6 months of updates and lifetime access to those updated versions?

    by philajan
  • 6 months of access to current and updated version from purchase date. But considering making it lifetime if there’s popular demand for it via feedback.
    by nickandbro
  • I'm all for the people who want to use nerdy software like Vim to do things in their own special way without ever touching a mouse, but I'm amused thinking, how dense is the UX of your text editor if people are coming up with creative forms of training to learn it?
    by MetaWhirledPeas
  • I don’t know I feel pretty crazy having created this all to make learning vim easier. Not all Vim users are like me. Why don’t you try it out?
    by nickandbro
  • The reason I started with vim was to do live writing of latex notes while listening to conference lectures, on a small notebook. I did not want to bring a mouse with me due to the extra weight and usually lack of a mouse surface.

    With the constraint that you simply don't have a mouse available, vim turned out to be faster from day 1 than alternative editors. Even knowing just a couple of vim movements.

    And then I liked it and wanted to learn more.

    by futune
  • Uses unholy amounts of CPU making my laptop's fans spin out of control. Editing is very slow, too. Not really a good impression of vim. I'm still going to recommend people to use vimtutor to get used to vim.
    by BoxwoodSeed
  • Hmm, I’ll look into the CPU processing performance. Maybe it’s the menu animations? And yes vimtutor continues to be a great resource that Braam made. I mainly made this app to gamify learning the vim skills.
    by nickandbro