Are there any kata for practice VIM?

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I've used VIM for many years as my primary text editor. And I am still learning how to use VIM for various editing tasks.

The problem is that even if I learn something and use it once a week I forgot soon how I did it -- classic case is search and replace in many buffers using bufdo :(.

I was wondering if there is any kata to daily VIM practice including many VIM commands:

open existing files,
create new files,
edit files and move around:
- move cursor (beginning & end of line/function/block/screen, top & bottom of screen, move screen line up/down, etc.),
- mark, copy & paste,
- insert & remove characters/words/lines,
- move between buffers,
- move between windows,
- arrange windows,
- search & replace,
- repeat last command,
- formatting (=),
- probably some more (bookmarks, macros).
save files,
create/update/save an open projects (mksession and source).

Do you know any kata for VIM of tutorial which could help to practice all above (and more) VIM commands?

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