I've always suspected that the fastest way to learn vim is to install the default and not copy someone else's ~/.vimrc at first. Edit it whenever you need some

I've always suspected that the fastest way to learn vim is to install the default and not copy someone else's ~/.vimrc at first. Edit it whenever you need some specific functionality, and edit often. Also read the :help docs a lot. But I admit it would be nice if the vim project shipped a sane default setup that was aimed at the average programmer.