it's not an easy chord for us beginners.

Are you leaning the guitar back towards you to allow you to see finger placements etc.

I sometimes find that I'm touching strings and by taking the guitar more upright it allows the fingers to be at a better angle to the fretboard.

Otherwise you just have to keep lifting and alternating the placing fingers until you find what suits.

Then when you have learned it they give you another F,C and G chord to use which means going back to using 1st and 2nd fingers again.