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It will, but it requires you spend a lot of time dealing with being slow and wanting to give up and reach for the mouse.
I swapped keyboard layouts (to a 52 key split layout) and it took me around 2-3 weeks of typing slow, hitting the wrong keys, and keeping several printed sheets (for all of the keyboard layers) on my desk in order to learn the layout. It was frustrating and it would have been a lot easier to just grab a standard keyboard but, in the end, it was worth it.
Learning vimkeys/application hotkeys does take a while and it is much easier to avoid it for any given task. Just grab the mouse and avoid the frustration of having to try to remember the hotkey (or, even worse, look it up). But if you can avoid that and force yourself through the uncomfortable frustration. You'll find that the time investment is worth it.