In my experience vifm is noticably snappier than ranger. But I also use it instead of cd when I want to switch to a "distant" directory - much more comfortable

In my experience vifm is noticably snappier than ranger. But I also use it instead of cd when I want to switch to a "distant" directory - much more comfortable than bothering with the tab completion, and the Vim-like search functionality allows to quickly jump to a specific file in the current (possibly very cluttered) directory.