Good vim tutorial? [closed]

Good vim tutorial? [closed] I've constantly heard good things about vim, and now I'm intrigued. The only thing that's putting me off is it's irregular keyboard controls. Does anyone know of any good beginners tutorials for vim?
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Guest [Entry]

"Vim comes with its own tutorial, for a start. Just run this in a terminal:

vimtutor

The good thing about vimtutor is that it allows you to read about how the editor works while actually using it.

Beyond that, you can take a look at the links here: Vi Lovers page

The nice thing about that page is that it briefly discusses the various links it provides, so you get a sense of which are better or worse and why.

I would add that the best way to get comfortable with Vim is to use it exclusively for a bit. If you end up hating it, fine. Use something else then. However, the only way to train your fingers and brain is to use it. My fingers now do Escape :wq out of habit, even when I'm in a gui email client at work (instead of Mutt)."

Guest [Entry]

Stackoverflow: Vim Tutorials

Guest [Entry]

"Check this VIM game, its plain awesome:
http://vim-adventures.com/

It's the ""Zelda meets text editing"" game. Beat the game to master VIM.
I finished 2 levels, 3rd under development it seems.

Also check this. Its good: http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html"

Guest [Entry]

I think vim recipes is a good to-the-point book.

Guest [Entry]

"I'd start off with the manual page (man vim), but I can see why you wouldn't want to read through the entire thing.

As such, this came up in a quick google search. It covers some of the more important points, although there are probably more in-depth tutorials."