I chose vim because it was radically different than anything else. All text editors have crazy shortcuts that do magic, but only vim has the ironically named N

I chose vim because it was radically different than anything else. All text editors have crazy shortcuts that do magic, but only vim has the ironically named NORMAL mode with its verbs, movements and registers... I treated it like a new game to learn. Sometimes I will write a macro because it is more fun, even though it might not save me raw time.