And if you wanted to repeat that 10 times you would...?

Use vim-repeat:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat

Press up ten times. That's still what a lot of us do in terminal (particularly when we're on a machine without fancy shell history fuzzy-searching etc.).

I guess I might press and hold at ten.

Your machine probably has ^r for working through bash history

But that aside, if you’re into arrow pressing, a few lines in your .inputrc can go a long ways

Test this out sometime:

  # Incremental searching with Up and Down and Left and Right
  "\e[A": history-search-backward
  "\e[B": history-search-forward

Now you can type “find” and press up/down arrow to just cycle through history that starts with find

Personally, I would do 9@@ after the first @:

You can also use `:^F` to navigate your history in a horizontal split using regular motion/search keys.