I’m not sure why, but in college everyone seemed to only use :wq to save and quit in Vim. Perhaps it is because we were taught :w (save) and :q (quit) separately, so :wq became the default combo.

Well, there’s a lesser-known easier way to save and quit in Vim: :x! There you go. I saved you one less keystroke.

There are minor differences betweeen these two commands. :wq forces a write to the disk even if there are no changes, but :x doesn’t. Practically speaking, there is no difference. So just use :x instead!