vim: gp over the paragraph

Question

in vim I use

Vj..jgp

or

Vk..kgp

for selected a paragraph and format.
how I can selected and format more fast the paragraph ?

Answer 1

As El Isra suggests in the comments, you can do gqap instead of vapgq to avoid unnecessarily going to visual mode. Some other useful variants of ap include aw (select a word) as (select a sentence), ab (select a () block), and aB (select a {} block). There are a number of plugins that extend this functionality for HTML tags as well, so you may be interested in searching for those.

Edit: Changed V to v.

Edit 2: Changed vgaqp to gqap.