🔥 Vim Popular Shortcuts
Master Vim's basic operations to speed up text editing and achieve efficient mouse-free editing.
TOP 1
Esc
Normal mode
Returns to normal (command) mode.
🎯 Reliably return to normal mode, the starting point for all operations
💡 Hint: Escape
TOP 2
i
Insert mode
Starts character input from cursor position.
🎯 The most basic editing operation to start text input
💡 Hint: insert
TOP 3
:+w+q
Save and quit
Saves file and quits Vim.
🎯 Save your work and safely exit Vim
💡 Hint: write quit
TOP 4
h
Move left
Moves cursor one character left.
🎯 Fast mouse-free navigation with hjkl cursor movement
💡 Hint: h is leftmost
TOP 5
d+d
Delete line
Deletes the current line.
🎯 Achieve efficient text editing with line-wise deletion
💡 Hint: delete double
TOP 6
y+y
Yank line
Copies the current line.
🎯 Quickly duplicate text with line copying and pasting
💡 Hint: yank
TOP 7
u
Undo
Undoes the last operation.
🎯 Instantly undo mistakes to edit with confidence
💡 Hint: undo
TOP 8
/
Search forward
Searches forward in file.
🎯 Quickly find specific text in files to improve editing efficiency
💡 Hint: / is search slash
TOP 9
v
Visual mode
Starts character-wise selection.
🎯 Achieve intuitive text manipulation with visual range selection
💡 Hint: visual
TOP 10
w
Next word
Moves to the beginning of next word.
🎯 Achieve efficient cursor navigation with word-wise movement
💡 Hint: word