The thing I appreciate the most about vim is not the fact that you can be a little bit faster with a lot of things; it's the fact that you can edit code for hours and you won't get tired at all. At least you won't get even close to as tired as you would were you using a mouse. It's simply the least painful of all the ways out there. I guess it's the main reason I use it.

Thank you for the links. I do use the AceJump equivalent for vim, and I have it mapped to <space>. It's quite nice, actually :). The only difference is that instead of pressing <space> and getting all the jumps available for each word out there, I press <space> followed by two letters, and it jumps directy to the word which starts with those two letters, or it simply shows me links to words that start with said letters if there's more than a word starting with those letters.