Know Your Environment: Building Fluency with Shortcuts, Terminals, and Git (opens in new tab)

Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+Z — the basics settle into procedural memory quickly. Beyond that, most shortcuts remain things we intend to learn eventually. The resources are easy to find. Most applications expose shortcuts directly in their menus, publish reference pages, and allow custom key bindings. Yet a 2005 study by Lane, Napier, Peres, and Sandor found that even experienced users relied on keyboard shortcuts less than 10% of the time, and that time spent using a program had little relationship wi...