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Every guide answers in the first sentence, shows the keystrokes on a real example, and links to a free interactive mission where your hands learn it for real.

Essentials

How to Exit Vim
How to Save a File in Vim
How to Copy to the System Clipboard in Vim
How to Delete All Lines in Vim
How to Select All in Vim
How to Change Case in Vim (Uppercase / Lowercase)
How to Show Line Numbers in Vim

Basics

How to Delete a Character in Vim
How to Delete a Word in Vim
How to Delete a Line in Vim
How to Undo and Redo in Vim

Insert mode

How to Type and Insert Text in Vim
How to Jump to the End of a Line and Type in Vim
How to Insert a New Line in Vim

Moving fast

How to Jump to a Specific Line in Vim

Search

How to Search in Vim (and Edit at the Match)
How to Repeat Your Last Change in Vim (the Dot Command)

Substitution

How to Find and Replace in Vim (All Occurrences)
How to Find and Replace in Specific Lines in Vim

Yank & put

How to Copy a Line in Vim
How to Copy a Word in Vim
How to Copy an Entire File in Vim
How to Duplicate a Line in Vim

Text objects

How to Change a Word in Vim
How to Edit Text Inside Quotes in Vim
How to Delete Everything Inside Parentheses in Vim

Visual mode

How to Select Text in Vim
How to Select Whole Lines in Vim
How to Indent Multiple Lines in Vim
How to Comment Out Multiple Lines in Vim
How to Delete a Column of Text in Vim
How to Delete a Paragraph in Vim

Power moves

How to Delete to the End of the Line in Vim
How to Join Lines in Vim
How to Replace a Single Character in Vim
How to Delete Multiple Lines in Vim

Registers II

A labelled drawer — vim
Out of order — vim
The yank that lived — vim
Collect the set — vim

Marks & jumps

Drop a pin — vim
Fence off the block — vim
There and back again — vim

Macros

Record once, replay — vim
Multiply the macro — vim
Do it again — vim
The assembly line — vim

Precision editing

Up to, not including — vim
Balanced demolition — vim
Hunt the word — vim
Shout the acronym — vim
Second comma's the charm — vim

Lines & indent

One step in — vim
Back it out — vim
Indent the block — vim
To the blank line — vim

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