zoxide keeps track of your most frequently used directories and uses a ranking algorithm to navigate to the best match. It was inspired by z and z.lua, but it’s written in Rust and out-performs both:

On my system, compiled with the x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target, hyperfine reports that zoxide runs 10-20x faster than z.lua, which, in turn, runs 3x faster than z. This is pretty significant, since this command runs once at every shell prompt, and any slowdown there will result in an increased loading time for every prompt.