[eddd-ddde]

I've tried so many times to make it work, I've really tried. But it just ends up being faster to spam j a couple of times instead of having to think about how many times I want to move, then type it, then be wrong, then try again...

For larger distances you wouldn't even see the text in the screen, so you don't even know how much to jump. In this situation I just spam ctrl+d, then tweak with j.

[estearum]

Relative line numbers = no thinking

Look where you want to go, there's a number next to it. Type that number and then type j.

[opan]

You can jump to line numbers without them being relative. Enter the line number and hit G or gg. Out of the box behavior, and you don't need to obscure the real line numbers that way.