If you just want to learn Vim because you think it's some magically fast editor, don't. It's not particularly fast at expressing actions, and modal editing is m

If you just want to learn Vim because you think it's some magically fast editor, don't. It's not particularly fast at expressing actions, and modal editing is mostly useful if you have a particular dislike of chording. I suspect most Vim users feel comparatively fast because of all the time they spent learning keybindings, not because of the editor. So just do that: figure out how to do editing actions faster in your current editor. I can beat a significant fraction of VimGolf scores with Sublime Text.