Back when I was in college in my intro to Unix class, I was introduced to vim as a text editor as part of the course and learned the basics. Over the next seve

Back when I was in college in my intro to Unix class, I was introduced to vim as a text editor as part of the course and learned the basics. Over the next several months, I read through the getting started and editing effectively sections of the main vim help page and got up to speed. In my opinion, just reading through the documentation and practicing is really all that you need. If you want to become an advanced user, then you need to always think if there's a more efficient way of doing something in the editor that's currently rather tedious and, once you learn it, practice and commit it to memory.