I knew vim well before I read this advice, so didn't need it myself, but think it's worthy: Go through vimtutor, then use the native vim for you platform that a

I knew vim well before I read this advice, so didn't need it myself, but think it's worthy: Go through vimtutor, then use the native vim for you platform that also has a GUI, so when you get frustrated you can 'fall back' to using menus. Over time replace your menu-fallback stuff with "hand on the keyboard" techniques. It was soooo frustrating in the early going with vim. Very distracting from what I was trying to do. (Presumably true for most of us.)