VIM Master (github.com)

There is also this one

https://vim-adventures.com/

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These little tutorials and games are great. I played VIM Adventures.

However, one thing I really struggle with is learning when I can be doing something more efficiently. I rarely use markers, anything beyond default registers, commands, and so on.

I'm giving Neovim a try for my systems course trying to get better but I do wish these sorts of games pushed me to get better at these more advanced usage tricks.

I like how it starts with how to exit vim, but let's be honest: word jumps are not that common to teach second

I really dig this. I might work on it a bit to include it in my lessons.

This is cool, I would love to see some more rounds and vim lessons! I use a lot of these basics on the daily.

I'm surprised they don't even mention vimtutor. It's preinstalled on every machine with vim (to the best of my knowledge). This seems like a cool project, but might as well give a shout-out to the original concept.

Nice job. Ideal next level should be macros.

This one is also nice to get going: https://www.vim-hero.com/

Very cool site! Working on my own similar project:

https://vimgolf.ai

To learn new vim motions. Have since gotten distracted by life, but need to actually finish it.

Needs more levels!

Even though I don’t have much use for vim, and I have opinions on tools like this going beyond a certain level of efficiency because IMO the true bottleneck is usually decision/design based not implementation based, this just kinda looks fun and the appeal of vim as just a thing that feels cool to use when you have mastery of it sounds cool.

Kinda like how it feels good to play an instrument when you’re good at it, or something.

I might give it a try!

Played around on the official website until i tried to delete a word and closed the tab by a mistake. Saved it for future reference.

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole and see pacvim (https://github.com/jmoon018/PacVim) is in the official Debian repo as an option as well.

Back from when those screencasts were a thing,

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/

I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/

I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all the vim embellishments would be a clutter of my neurons.

cute but should go much harder/further

Cool idea, yet the first level broke me: typing :qa enters Insert mode, and it's not possible to delete the command input with a backspace.

Hopefully it's easy to fix

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I generally recommend to exit either via :xa (save all & exit) or :qa! (discard all and exit), bound to ZZ or ZA respectively. If you exit via :q or :wq, it just closes the current buffer, and moves to the next one. E.g. if you have a neotree open along with the editor, you type :wq, it closes the editor buffer and moves you into the file tree, which can be very confusing for beginners.

Here's 8 chapters on how to exit Vim: https://github.com/cloudstreet-dev/Vim-with-Vigor

Learned vim with a game like this. It was a vscode extension, I don’t remember what it was called.

Anyway it’s easily the best time investment I’ve ever made, period. Takes a couple days of messing around, and you can basically never leave modal editing behind! It’s just so much better. I’m still not even a vim master. Just the basic motions and commands are enough to never want to give em up. Throw macros and registers on top… delicious.

Also without vim I never would have tried helix, which is just absolutely the smoothest and most frictionless editing ever. Very minimal setup, too

Tried the challenge mode - would like to see support for Ctrl + [, acting as escape!

I got the muscle memory for hjkl down by playing https://vimsnake.com/