If you're just starting, I strongly recommend you go through vimtutor. After installing vim, just type "vimtutor" in your shell.

Then, head over to #vim on freenode.net with any questions. Even simply lurking in that channel is a great education.

It took me two weeks before I finally grew comfortable with vim, so don't get discouraged. Start off by treating it as a regular text editor. Use the arrow keys to move around, use control (windows) or option (mac) + arrow keys to quickly move between words, etc. Slowly introduce a few vim shortcuts at a time. It was also helpful for me to write the commands on a whiteboard or a post it and have it on my monitor as reference.

Yeah, having them written down off to the side helped me finally learn vim. There are many vim cheat sheets out there via a quick google that I wish I would have used starting out.