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> In your car, do you move the turn signal lever up or down to indicate a right turn?

You rotate it the same direction you're about to rotate the wheel. The vi navigation keys have no such convenient correspondence.

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h is left because it is on the left of the movement keys, l is right because it is on the right of the movement keys... a fairly convenient correspondence.

The J kinda looks like an arrow pointing down. If you squint.

I also like what Someone (literally their username, lol) pointed out on another comment, that you can think of K as "klimb" to move up.

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