Emacs is terrible

It's simply impossible to become as quick in Emacs as one might be in vim. I've been trying, I've really been trying hard to like Emacs, because I want a decent IDE for Lisp. But it's just terrible. The editor is always getting in my way.

I have a new purpose in life. To clone vim in Common Lisp. This isn't reinventing the wheel, because whatever vi-mode they have in Emacs is still corrupted. A new viitor must surface, pure and handsome, with all the Lisp-friendliness of Emacs and all the awesomeness of vi.

I just wanted to get this off my chest, /prog/.

Shaving keystrokes off a task the speed of which is not bound by typing is pointless.
Implying that emacs users think slower than vi users.

I really don't know why all Vim tutorials emphasize hjkl so much
It's a lot more convenient than reaching for the arrow keys, and unlike emacs, you can also operate them with one hand. Countless times I've scrolled through files with my right hand while doing something else with my left.