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Re:Vim 8.1 by inyorgroove on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:25PM (#17102690)
There is this game that was posted to HN earlier this week [1]. There is also `vimtutor` a text file that walks you through a tutorial in vim, I believe this ships by default with vim [2].

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1: https://www.ostechnix.com/pacvim-a-cli-game-to-learn-vim-com...

2: https://superuser.com/questions/246487/how-to-use-vimtutor

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Re:Vim 8.1 by tomcooks on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:40PM (#17102833)
Vimtutor done once a day for a week beats anything else

Added bonus if you force yourself to use a handful of commands for the whole 7 days (I suggest focusing on dd, yyp, xp, cw and obviously hkjl for movement)

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Re:Vim 8.1 by smhenderson on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:38PM (#17102818)
vimtutor is what got me over the initial hump. I dabbled with Vim for a year or so before I found it. Within a couple of weeks after using it for an hour or so a day I felt very comfortable and have used Vim, environment permitting, as my primary editor ever since.

Thanks Bram!

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