Why bother? Explained by Jim Dennis in accepted answer to a common question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim which actually ponders why bother with VIM if it breaks "the default" Ctrl+f, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+A that one learned from other (usually MS) tools...
vimtutor -> man vim -> and when in Vim ':help whatever-you-need-help-on'.
Also, echo "set nocompatible" >> ~/.vimrc so that your Vim acts like Vim and not like VI. >> appends, to not overwrite if you already had a Vim config file (.vimrc).
vimtutor goes first, obviously.
- http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html - 💯 for conciseness! Tutorial via a cheatsheet; 🔝 if you want to create your own tutorial and would like to see "in what order"
- https://vim-adventures.com/ - ❤️ 😍 a pretty and well made game teaching you how to Vim. Seriously 🆒. :-) 💰 for level 3 and above (25$ personal license) but I'm still putting it here.
- https://www.vimgolf.com/ - ⛳ 🏆. You register with 🐦 and you ⛳ with Vim, each 🏆 gets you new tips (if anybody solved it better). Several thousand exercises.
Consider this instead of plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2WjJbmmoM
- http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif - condensed yet colourful
- http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/ - extensive yet one A4 page, multiple versions (monochrome, colours, for colour-blind, hard-copy or print...)
- https://vim.rtorr.com/ - has other languages (Polish, Portuguese, ...)
- https://devhints.io/vim - clear, yet long
Noteworthy commercial one: http://vimcheatsheet.com/, $10 for PDFs or $25 for a printed poster :-)
There are many others, but I'm adding only those, that somehow distinguish themselves.
- Mastering Vim - Practical Programmers
- http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html