[alfiejohn_]

Without a doubt turning on the following was the biggest win for me and Vim:

  set relativenumber

[justinmk]

If you're doing that to move vertically, you might want to try vim-sneak[1] instead.

Personally, I disable the line-numbers column altogether (and display the current column:line in the status bar).

[1] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak/