For me, I knew touch typing (not a master but enough to not see the keyboard while typing), that combined with little experience in vim bindings (basic navigati

For me, I knew touch typing (not a master but enough to not see the keyboard while typing), that combined with little experience in vim bindings (basic navigation hjkl, v) etc was enough to become really comfortable with spacemacs. Spacemacs's mnemonic bindings will make it easy for you to start having a muscle memory of bindings to do stuff like opening file tree, moving between windows, switching layouts, killing buffers (all essential for a good workflow in emacs).