If you're used to vim for your daily editing tasks, but you're on a server hosting only vi, then you might miss vims extra features like visual blocks, window splitting and folding. Here's where the vi cheat sheet comes to rescue. Fuzzyfuture.com has a list of several of these cheat sheets ranging from C++ to Oracle syntax references. Stick those on your cubicle walls and look like an expert !
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Easier to just put the things you need in your $HOME
And if you have the misfortune of having to use Solaris 8 machines which happily tell you "terminal too wide" or "screen too large for internal buffer", it's probably easier to just put a vim or an nvi binary in your $HOME.
Nevertheless, the cheat sheets are handy sometimes.