I guess I have the opposite advice. You literally just use it. It takes about two weeks to get back to your old speed, and then after that everything becomes an

I guess I have the opposite advice. You literally just use it. It takes about two weeks to get back to your old speed, and then after that everything becomes an additional superpower. I started using vim because in high school a guy I respected at the time started using it, and I wanted to look like a cool hacker or something, so I used it for my programming class assignments. But yeah, you just have to use it. You should generally structure your life so that you can commit to the expense of learning something new for two weeks. Edit: oops, I just read that you’re asking in the context of helping other people learn. Still, my advice for getting over the hump is to get over the hump, one keystroke at a time.