You just need to use vim for a while, and then it becomes second nature that "normal mode" is a powerful set of chordless commands at your ready disposal. Once

You just need to use vim for a while, and then it becomes second nature that "normal mode" is a powerful set of chordless commands at your ready disposal. Once you get used to vim then the problem becomes that you constantly hit escape after typing a block of text, which can wreak quite a bit of havoc in certain contexts ;)