It's Vim's default keys, inspired from the typewritters that didn't have arrow keys!! It's weird but, vim coders love it!

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exactly and it is coming from much older concept called touch typing. it is not just some made up thing. point is that you don't need to move fingers from middle of keyboard

[Touch typing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing)

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