Actually, I’ve just checked on MapQuest, and the two unrelated apartments I lived in were just over 2 miles apart. So twice as far as I said above.
But my shortest move was only a few feet (depending upon where in each apartment you measured it) within one complex.
How un-American!
If dorm rooms count I’d be at 6" or so.
I moved to the room next door which had a mirror image configuration and my bed was on the opposite side of the wall from it’s previous location.
About five feet. When we lived in NJ we moved from one side of a house to the other, with adjoining walls. My books were stored on the third floor, and we moved them by handing them out the window to the other side.
The two locations were closer together than the dorm rooms I moved between.
Five blocks from 6th Avenue to 11th Avenue on the same cross street in Anchorage.
Another 0.2 miles, from one college apartment to another. I lived on the other side of campus for two years in between, though.
First semester in college dorm in Room 1-A.
Second semester in Room 1-D.
(Same floor, rooms off the same corridor up the same stairwell.)
I did that. The subway, the Staten island ferry, then a bus, and a bit of a walk. It definitely seemed like more trouble than it was worth but I didn’t exactly have other options. Nothing in my life has ever made me feel so poor.
I currently live 4 miles from the house I grew up in. But if we’re playing games with school/military, I went from a berthing on the O3 level towards the rear of the carrier to a berthing on the 2nd deck nearly all the way aft. Maybe a 100 foot difference.
I’m going to exclude moves in college where I once moved to a room 3 doors down the hall. That’s a move on the same property.
Other than that, I’ve never had a ‘short move’. The smallest is probably 8 miles.
The longest was the other side of the world.
I settle in and that’s the end of it unless someone doubled my rent or the drive gets too hard.
I lived in a block of flats next door to another block of flats that I’d lived in a couple of years earlier. So, next door, but with a couple of other locations in between.
When I was in college, I stayed in a few dorms and an off-campus apartment all within a mile or so of each other, but I didn’t move straight from one to another without staying at my parent’s home during the summer.
For moving directly from one place to another, my shortest move was slightly over a mile, from one apartment to another, to live in a place nearer to a large park and downtown.
Moved to an apartment in the same building, just a few units over.
Per Google Maps, I’m a bit under 2 miles from the house I grew up in as the crow flies, exactly 2 miles on foot.
My parents still live there, and I wish I’d learned it’s such a short walk closer to moving in to this apartment than moving out of it.
Sounds like mine was the closest! 
I moved from a one bedroom apartment to the two bedroom apartment next door. I could stand in the hallway and put one hand on either front door!
When I asked friends to help me move, they all complained, “Why Child, you live on the third floor!!” Once I explained, “Ok, I just would like help moving everything to the other side of the wall,” I had more than enough help!! 
I packed smaller items, (knick-knacks, coffee cups, etc.) but dinner plates and bath towels just got carried from one cabinet to the other. Two of my “big guy” friends carried the two smaller bookcases fully loaded! 
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I lived in a really nicely situated, well maintained mobile home park for about nine years. It was located between two ponds. I could literally throw a rock from my front yard into either pond. Ducks quacking on my patio were my summer alarm clock.
Anyway, I lived in a 10’ x 30’ unit for six months until a 10’ x 60’ opened up. The move was 112 feet, kitchen to kitchen.
Moved across a back alley … twice! All 3 houses were slated for demolition (school expansion - my Dad was a teacher & we rented them from the school corp) and as one house was ready to be torn down, we moved.
Two blocks – call it about 100 yards. For the larger things, rather than a truck we just had some friends help us carry them.
Exactly 1 house next door.
I owned 2 houses, both next to each other on the same street. The one we lived in was much larger than the other one I owned and was renting out. When we got notice from our tenants that they were moving my wife and I decided, seeing our kids were all out of the nest, to move into that smaller house and sell the larger house. This was during the “housing bubble” and we made a killing on that house.
Does this count, as I already owned the house, though hadn’t lived in it prior?
If not, then it’s hard to calculate. 1 house or 1 block. We sold a house once and bought the house that was behind us, but on the same block.
You just jogged my memory. I moved from a one bedroom apartment to a two bedroom apartment about 30 feet or so away at the suggestion of a new roommate, so that would be my closest move.