Forget about arrows (except in insert mode), since we have the home-row (the row where hjkl are located).
The following movements operate one line/one character at a time:
Move down: j
Move up: k
Move left: h
Move right: l
Move to the beginning of the line: 0 (that's a zero)
Move to the end of the line: $
Move to the first non-blank character in the line: ^ (I can't seem to get this to work, probably better on US keyboard layout)
Jump to right before the next quotes: t"
Jump and land on the next quotes: f"
Move forward one word: w
Move backward one word: b
Move to the end of the word: e
Move forward one sentence: )
Move backward one sentence: (
Move forward one paragraph: }
Move backward one paragraph: {
Move to the top of the screen: H
Move to the middle of the screen: M
Move to the bottom of the screen: L
Move to the top of the file: gg
Move to the bottom of the file: G
Move up half a screen: ^U
Move down half a screen: ^D
Page down: ^F
Page up: ^B
Note: the hat ^ means that you should press Ctrl+, e.g. Ctrl+F for Page down
Bonus:
Jump to your previous navigation location: Ctrl-i
Jump back to where you were: Ctrl-o
You can search for text by entering the search key /{word to search}<CR>, then navigate to the next occurrence with n and previous occurrence with N. You can start searching backwards by entering ? instead of /.
Search for string: /{string}
Jump to character: t
Jump onto character: f
Search for other instances of the word under your cursor: *
Go to the next instance when you've jumped to a character (with f or t): ;
Go to the previous instance when you've jumped to a character (with f or t): ,
Please read the instructions in the assignment-1.txt file, and try out the verbs, modifiers and nouns.
In the first assignment we also learn to move around in a normal text file. Open the file in vim, and start working on it.
If you need help, just ask.