3 ms·

The easiest are F and J, the home keys where your index fingers rest. The more you have to "reach away", the harder it is to always correctly reset your hand.

• airstrike 5y ago
  well, we can’t really have F be a special key to return to normal mode
  • the_gipsy 5y ago
    I'm not advocating for that! Just that Esc/Mode shouldn't be far. Vim uses Esc for mode switching because the author wrote vim on a keyboard that had Esc where now Capslock is on a modern keyboard.