Vim tutorial

I'm doing a vim tutorial because Emacs hurts my fingers and I think the modal style of vim will be easier on my fingers.

This made me LOL for some reason:

Move the cursor to the beginning of the first line, for example, and type xxxxxxx (eight x’s) to delete the first eight characters on the line.
Can you guess what it is yet?

>>5
Are you a fucking retard?
- The Vim equivalent of C-a is 0
- The Vim equivalent of C-u 8 <del> is 8x
- The Vim equivalent of C-a C-u 8 <del> is 08x