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It's a learned skill. If you seriously want to learn it, just use it as your only editor for a while.

Its learning curve is a lot like git: It's overwhelming at first but you only need to know basic commands. Then once you understand how it works, you'll pick up on the rest faster and faster.

The real power of vim is the ability to do very quick "programmatic actions".

"Delete" -> "d". "Go to end of next block" -> "}". "Delete next block" -> "d}". "Delete next 3 blocks" -> "3d}". "Repeat that action five times" -> "5.".

Too many people are intimidated by vim's nature of being a command line editor, not a real IDE etc. But its power has nothing to do with that, it's really just the input style.