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You're missing a ton of vim's value by doing that. The reason for those key mappings is so that your hands can remain in standard "typing ready" position, so that you can both type and navigate without moving your hands. If you are moving away to the arrow keys, at that point you're one step away from just navigating by mouse: it's really missing the point.

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I don't know about "a ton" -- there are far better ways to move around a file than mashing hjkl, even with numbered versions (vim-easymotion, vim-seek). Once you can get to the right place in the file I almost never use hjkl with an action, but rather text objects or motions like ci" or dt;

I've started to use relative line numbering (numbers.vim is highly recommended) and that has made me use 'j' and 'k' in motions quite frequently. I wish I had made the change earlier!

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