Can you have relative numbers, but for characters/words in a line?

Question

This is relativenumber. It shows the line numbers, relative to your cursor:

1 one line before your cursor
0 your cursor is here
1 first line after
2 second line
3 third line
4 and so on

It's super useful for quickly editing a number of lines. But is it possible to have the same thing, except for characters in a line? Something like this:

8    3  0 2      10   16    22 25  X  X        X  X     X      X       X       X      X
This is a pretty long line. It can be annoying to edit. EspeciallyIfThere'sALotOfTextAtOnce
        ^
 your cursor is here  

You can see that each word or longer string of characters has a relative character count number on top of it (I stopped using numbers and started using X's eventually, but you get the point).

So let's say I want to edit the string It can be annoying to It is annoying. I could do 25k to go to the word I want to edit, type 2cw to change two words and replace them with the string "is".

Considerations:

• The numbers need to be spaced out because having them too close to each other would be confusing
• Using characters instead of numbers (e.g X and Y instead of 100 and 105) might be a good idea

Is there any existing solution out there for accomplishing this? I'd like to give it a try.

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Edit: An even better idea might be to display word numbers instead of character numbers. Like this:

2    1  0 1      2    3     4  5   6  7        8  9          
This is a pretty long line. It can be annoying to edit. 
        ^
 your cursor is here  

If the number 5 is on top of the "can", then I can just type 5w to go to the word "can".

Answer 1

Plugin suggestions from the comments:

• easymotion
• vim-sneak