I was using vim mostly while working on projects with a single board computer. But at that time I only knew the basics of searching, jumping to a line and entering insert mode to edit some text.

Recently I installed vim plugin for vscode and spent a little time digging deeper into vim and practiced until it got into muscle memory.

One little shortcut that I've noticed even some experienced users aren't aware of is :x to save and exit. It is equivalent to :wq