Go to n-th symbol in line

Question

How to move cursor to the n-th symbol from the left in Vim?

One of the solutions I see is press 0n, it will move to the n+1 position. Is

Answer 1

EDIT: misread your question.

you can move forward to a particular symbol by typing f followed by the symbol in question:

if you want to move to the third $, you'd type:

3f$

in order to go backwards, you use capital "F"

F$

to get to the end of the line first, you use "$"

so your keystrokes for finding the third $ from the end of a line is:

$3F$

i like to keep something like this handy when using Vim:
http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html