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Train
Work through interactive drills right in your terminal. Repeat each motion until your hands know it before your head does.
Terminal dojo · macOS · Linux · Windows
Train your fingers.
Earn your black belt.
Vim Dojo is an interactive, karate-themed Vim trainer that runs right in your terminal. Drill the motions through repetition, climb nine belts from White to Black, and earn a shareable ASCII certificate when you master the Black Belt.
Download for macOS, Linux or Windows one file道場 · VIM DOJOrank: ■ yellow belt
DRILL · change inside quotes
Turn the line on top into the line below.
current
rank = "white belt"
target
rank = "black belt"
your keysci"black belt<Esc>
✓ at par — again.osu!
The way of the dojo
Muscle memory isn't read. It's drilled.
Cheat sheets don't stick. Vim Dojo puts you on the mat with short, focused drills you repeat until the motion is automatic.
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Earn your belts
Each belt unlocks new techniques. Nine belts take you from White to Black, with a bonus Gold Stripe past it for search and replace.
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Share your black belt
Master the Black Belt and the dojo awards an ASCII certificate you can paste anywhere — your README, your team chat, your socials.
The path
Nine belts, White through Black. Then a Gold Stripe.
White, Yellow and Orange are free. A lifetime license opens Green through Black, the Gold Stripe and the daily kata.
White
Modes & survival
FreeYellow
Horizontal motion
FreeOrange
Insert, precisely
FreeGreen
The grammar
LicenseBlue
Counts & precision
LicensePurple
Text objects
LicenseBrown
Search & visual
LicenseRed
The dot command
LicenseBlack
Vim golf
LicenseGold Stripe
Search & replace · bonus
License
Proof of mastery
A certificate that lives where you do: plain text.
Master the Black Belt and the dojo awards an ASCII scroll with your name, the date, your belts and a seal derived from your record. It lands as a plain text file beside a Markdown badge for your GitHub profile and a line for LinkedIn. Finish the Gold Stripe and it is reissued with the stripe added.
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ ╻ ╻ ╻ ┏┳┓ ╺┳┓ ┏━┓ ┏┓ ┏━┓ │ │ ┃┏┛ ┃ ┃┃┃ ┃┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ B L A C K B E L T │ │ ┗┛ ╹ ╹ ╹ ╺┻┛ ┗━┛ ┗━┛ ┗━┛ ╭─╮ │ │ ━━━━━━━━━━━┣▓▓┫━━━━━━━━━━━ │◧│ │ │ ╰─╯ │ │ awarded to Your Name │ │ on 2026-12-05 │ │ │ │ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ○ 9 of 10 belts │ │ 106 of 106 drills mastered · ★★☆ average │ │ 2,104 keystrokes over 14 days of practice │ │ │ │ seal 8A9E-9F73 │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
$ vim-dojo
» daily kata
The drills you've let dull, back under strict par.
edge ███████░░░ · 2nd Dan
[ enter the mat ]
After the black belt
A master never stops training.
Skills fade without practice. Past Black Belt, a daily kata re-serves the drills you've let dull under strict par. An edge meter shows how sharp you are, and steady training earns 2nd through 5th Dan.
Install
One file. Nothing else to install.
Download the file for your computer, make it executable and run it. You need a terminal at least 80×24 characters; Node.js is built in.
# Mac with Apple Silicon
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin curl -fL -o ~/.local/bin/vim-dojo \ https://github.com/webtechmike/vim-dojo-releases/releases/latest/download/vim-dojo-darwin-arm64 chmod +x ~/.local/bin/vim-dojo vim-dojo
Pricing
Pay once. Train for life.
Start free. When you're ready to go all the way, one license key unlocks every belt forever.
White belt
Step onto the mat.
$0 free forever
- First 3 belts: White, Yellow, Orange
- Interactive terminal drills
- No account, no key, no sign-up
Lifetime license
The full path to black belt.
$19$25 $25 one time
- All nine belts, plus the bonus Gold Stripe
- Daily kata and Dan ranks past Black Belt
- ASCII certificate and profile badge at Black Belt
- Lifetime access — no subscription
- One machine at a time, movable whenever you like
Launch price through January 31, 2027. After that a license is $25.
Support the dojo
Grateful for the training? Bow to the sensei.
Tips are never required — but if Vim Dojo sharpened your skills and you feel so inclined, a tip helps keep new drills coming.