[dkastner]

I think context matters here. The article was discussing GUi word processor usage.

When using an app like Pages or Word, the mouse will be faster because keyboard navigation in those apps is terrible. You may be able to save some mousing with command-p, but for general editing tasks like highlighting and moving text, the mouse will always beat the keyboard.

In vim, however, editing via keyboard is well designed and always faster than mousing.

The true test would be to compare editing LaTex with vim versus a rich text document with TextEdit.