[MichaelGG]

Play VIM Adventures[1]. Even doing a few levels was enough for me to start enjoying benefits. And I didn't switch from Visual Studio for the bulk of code editing, I just added VsVim. That way I'm not forced into VIM. I can use as much or as little as I want. No pressure. (Though all my config editing is over SSH and VIM itself is great there.)

The biggest, easiest, thing for me was macros. Being able to easily and quickly record a macro and apply it over many lines - that's slick. Like converting a CREATE TABLE to a set of ORM instructions, or into a structure. Before I'd use some half cooked regex and clean up after. Now I just edit one l line while in a macro then run it N times.

Apart from that, it's just a ton of little things that add up.

Also: ViEmu for Office. VimFx for Firefox (there's one for Chrome too, Vimium). Browsing without the mouse is really great; quite elegant.

1: http://vim-adventures.com/