I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands
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I made hjkl to help myself remember Vim commands. It’s a little browser game you can play when you want to unwind and get a bit of Vim practice in.There are still a lot of commands I want to add, but I hope someone finds it useful in the meantime :)
HN · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 72 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based educational games · 34 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 34 launches in browser-based educational games →
Could you build this?
Yes A browser-based Vim practice game can use an existing JavaScript Vim emulator and a challenge-checking layer. The grading logic is simple, and nothing needs to be stored.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: vimtutor, Vim Adventures, vimgolf.ai, IntelliJ, VSCode Vim mode
Concerns raised: requires account signup, reload resets to landing page and loses progress, editing speed rarely the bottleneck, learning Vim is closer to a hobby
Feature requests: persist progress on reload, delay account prompt until after a goal, exit option for the game
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
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