Jumping to a character, deleting a block - while vim does have bindings for these, I've never found myself using them. For the latter especially, moving to the start of the block and then selecting to the end of the block is better to me just because it lines up with my eyes scanning the thing I'm planning to delete. With vim I would have to pause and double-check what I'm about to delete anyway, and if it doesn't fit in one page I'd have to move around to inspect it anyway.