i: Go to Insert Mode
Esc or Ctrl-C: Go to Normal Mode
gg: Move to top of file
G: Move to end of file
{line}gg: Move to specific line
w: Move to beginning of next word
b: Jump to beginning of last word
e: Jump to end of word
ge: Jump backwards to end of last word
A count is a number at the beginning of a command that will multiply the effect of that command.
In vim, a WORD is a string of characters that contains non-alphabetic characters. We navigate through these using the uppercase versions of the above commands.
f{character}: Jump to specific character
t{character}: Jump to just before specific character
; or ,: Jump to next or previous occurrence of character search
0: Moves to the first character of a line
^: Moves to the first non-blank character of a line
$: Moves to the end of a line
g_: Moves to the non-blank character at the end of a line
}: jumps entire paragraphs downwards
{: similarly but upwards
CTRL-D: lets you move down half a page by scrolling the page
CTRL-U: lets you move up half a page also by scrolling