“quick” appears twice in a row. You're already on the duplicate — delete it with dw.
The quick quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Canonical solution: dw · target: 2 keystrokes — the fewest that solve it (every keypress counts).
dw = operator (d) + motion (w): delete from the cursor to the start of the next word. w hops forward a word at a time, b hops back. This operator + motion grammar is the heart of vim.
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| daw | delete a word plus its surrounding space — works from anywhere in the word |
| diw | delete the word only, keep the space |
| dw | delete from the cursor to the start of the next word |
| d3w | delete three words |
| db | delete to the beginning of the word |
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