Vimtutor was all it took to get me both hooked and proficient enough to not feel hopeless. That said, I get why it's not the same for everyone.
Re:Vim for Humans
by cholantesh on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:19AM
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Drew Neill's vimcasts.org is also great.
One other link I haven't seen mentioned here is the user-manual[0] or typing (:h user-manual), and of course typing `vimtutor` at the shell...
[0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html