Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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    10 hours ago

    Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

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      It’s well worth learning, you can use vim motions In lots of apps (or they have vim plugins) and even some websites will let you navigate with hjkl and search with / etc

      There used to be a web based vim game to help you learn, vim tutor maybe?

      Any time I’m forced to select text with a mouse it feels like a massive ball ache.

      Don’t get me started on editing text on an iPad, they have gone out of their way to make selection and editing, like changing a URL, a total nightmare.