I could have written this. I learned a little vi in the mid-80s and have pretty much used it ever since. No other editor has stuck with me that way and I've seen most of them - ISPF, WordStar and many derivatives, WordPerfect, etc. Except Emacs. I just never got into Emacs because every system that had Emacs also had vi.
I think I spent the first few years getting to the end of a line with shift-A and Esc, copying lines by trying 13dd u 14dd u 15dd P jjjjjj p, etc. (Side note: even as I was editing this text I kept hitting ESC and bbbbbb.) I'll likely never know all the things Vim can do, but it's already enough that it's my fallback editor when I need to do a lot of editing or text manipulation.
I think I spent the first few years getting to the end of a line with shift-A and Esc, copying lines by trying 13dd u 14dd u 15dd P jjjjjj p, etc. (Side note: even as I was editing this text I kept hitting ESC and bbbbbb.) I'll likely never know all the things Vim can do, but it's already enough that it's my fallback editor when I need to do a lot of editing or text manipulation.