title: Vim: faster way to select blocks of text in visual mode
body: <p>I have been using vim for quite some time and am aware that selecting blocks of text in visual mode is as simple as <kbd>SHIFT</kbd>+<kbd>V</kbd> and moving the arrow key up or down line-by-line until I reach the end of the block of text that I want selected.</p>
  
  <p>My question is - is there a faster way in visual mode to select a block of text for example by <kbd>SHIFT</kbd>+<kbd>V</kbd> followed by specifying the line number in which I want the selection to stop? (via <code>:35</code> for example, where 35 is the line number I want to select up to - this obviously does not work so my question is to find how if something similar to this can be done...) </p>