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by scajanus 1346 days ago
> Even after 1-2 weeks

You should accept a longer trajectory -- say 1-2 years to learn it and 7 years to get good at it. But even then it means you need to review things you do, look for repeated patterns and wonder about/hunt down smarter ways of doing things.

A big help for me when starting was hanging out in the Vim IRC channel (Freenode, I think). This stackoverflow reply is a classic on how to learn Vim: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/4751065

Bairui's blog has some good stuff, but sadly he left the IRC channel in 2015 then I guess: http://of-vim-and-vigor.blogspot.com/?m=1

Finally, of course, the koans: https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/