Everything takes time to master, but understanding/being able to make sense of something makes a big difference. You just started learning vim and are moving a

Everything takes time to master, but understanding/being able to make sense of something makes a big difference. You just started learning vim and are moving around with hjkl and x-ing words letter by letter, then you learn about moving with w/W and b/B and repeating/combining commands (2w, 2b, ...), and the next time you're using it you think "wait a minute, d is delete, I use dd all the time, why wouldn't I just d2w to delete those 2 words, huh, it didn't work right, the cursor is in the middle of the first word, I have to bd2w", at least that's somewhat how I first started getting it. Once you understand something it's hard to forget and after a short time using it you don't really need think about it like you mentioned.