Really? I'm right-handed, but don't have any trouble making any kind of key combinations at any speed with my left hand. Aren't most people (in tech, at least) ambidextrous when it comes to typing?
Lefty here, I never really felt that way. When it comes to typing, I feel like I'm not either-handed - both hands get a full workout, pretty much whatever I'm doing.
Wot? The whole point of vim is that it is 100% customizable and non opinionated about what keys do what. The default mapping are what they are...but they really expect you to remap most of them even if you are a right hander.
That seems crazy to me. A huge fraction of the value of something like vim (vi-clones specifically) is that I can find it on any machine and use it as-is... that isn't going to be true if I expect different keymappings. Even in emacs, I try to use the default mappings for standard things and just supplement them with added features.
TBH, I'll almost never use vim without my configuration files. The only times i might do this is if I need to do a very quick edit to a config file, in which case typing at 50% efficiency isn't going to hurt that much.
