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hehe you are right. Using counts is not very efficient. It's ok for 2-3 items but beyond that is more time consuming (it's just hard to count words/characters by just looking at them).
For that particular use case, you can use pattern searches:
?{pattern}<Enter> and you're there. That in combination with n/N to repeat last search forward or backward and it's pretty much instant.
?{pattern} to search upward and /{pattern} to search downward
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Then again, "5 lines up, 83 columns right, select the next word" is still faster with the mouse because you can just click there. ;-)
Otherwise, I mostly agree.
hehe you are right. Using counts is not very efficient. It's ok for 2-3 items but beyond that is more time consuming (it's just hard to count words/characters by just looking at them).
For that particular use case, you can use pattern searches:
?{pattern}<Enter>and you're there. That in combination withn/Nto repeat last search forward or backward and it's pretty much instant.?{pattern}to search upward and/{pattern}to search downward