[JackMorgan]

This is exactly how I learned Vim. Afterwards I bundled it all together into a book (shameless self promotion I know)

The book is a weekly practice schedule that takes ten minutes a day to build up muscle memory for variety of techniques on premade files. It starts with the absolute basics, but builds all the way to advanced regular expressions with lookahead and lookbehind. By the end it covers the management and editing of marks, registers and macros.

It's amazing what a difference it makes to have muscle memory with macros and registers. Of course one can devise their own katas from the docs, but I just did the legwork of manufacturing scenarios to practice them.

https://leanpub.com/deliberatevim