While all of that is correct, it's also the core of vim philosophy that using 2 key strokes instead of 3 is what speeds you up. That said I also haven't used to

While all of that is correct, it's also the core of vim philosophy that using 2 key strokes instead of 3 is what speeds you up. That said I also haven't used too fancy configuration or mapping or plugins in vim yet because I fear I don't have them when I ssh into another system, which happens quite often. But I have to say that I use a few aliases in git and that speeds me up a lot, as long as I stay on my system.