@rl_dane why is this a meme. wasn;t that the explicit purpose of omitted argument?
Or did you think that was just to get specifically to ~ only?
It's a meme because typing cd ~/docs is the generally viewed "correct" way, as it only requires a specific command.
But even though it requires two commands, cd; cd docs is easier to type, even though it's uglier.
I just counted it twice, and even counting ~ as two keypresses, I got 10 for both.