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Old Tasteless Blogs on Competitive SC1 Keyboards.

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Cadgers
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States514 Posts
October 23 2010 22:41 GMT
#1
Found these again after reading them some time ago. He brings up some really cool points and it's definitely worth the read during all this BlizzCon downtime.

Part 1: http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/tasteless/secrets-of-starcraft-pro-gamers-the-competitive-keyboard

Part 2: http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/Tasteless/Starcraft-competitive-keyboard-tutorial-part-II

Part 3:
http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Starfeed/Starcraft-Keyboard-Tutorial-by-Tasteless-part-3

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Thrill
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
2599 Posts
October 23 2010 23:15 GMT
#2
This was posted when GameRiot was 'the big thing' with a lot of hits and a lot of revenue. The recession burst the bubble though.

Looking at this I can't help but think this is the future of Nerdstomper as well. Semi-committed articles that are put up mostly for the sake of $$$ on a platform destined to die out. =\
HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-23 23:16:44
October 23 2010 23:16 GMT
#3
:O never seen part 3. I remember I used to play toss and hotkey everything from 1-5 no matter what since every video-game I played I'd have my hands on wasd. After reading the blogs I finally started realizing you can put your hand on the right side of the keyoboard for early game.
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puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3137 Posts
October 23 2010 23:59 GMT
#4
its faster not to use f2/f3/f4 for rax location but you need all the available hotkeys for controling an army in tvz (and 0/9 for scans) if you want to be using all the rines that are massing
Why would I play sctoo when I can play BW?
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
October 24 2010 01:48 GMT
#5
On October 24 2010 08:15 Thrill wrote:
This was posted when GameRiot was 'the big thing' with a lot of hits and a lot of revenue. The recession burst the bubble though. \


Okay you gotta qualify that statement because I don't ever remember this being true. I remember them having a lot of sub-par content from people who had to get hits by posting it to TL and saying "yo click my link cuz i don't get paid otherwise" and it being the cause of some minor scuffles here.
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djcube
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States985 Posts
October 24 2010 02:45 GMT
#6
On October 24 2010 08:59 puppykiller wrote:
its faster not to use f2/f3/f4 for rax location but you need all the available hotkeys for controling an army in tvz (and 0/9 for scans) if you want to be using all the rines that are massing

How is it faster not to use the F keys over rax? F key takes one press and one click to focus on a rax. Regular hotkey takes 2 presses instead of 1 click +1 press. If anything they're at least equal. I'd even say F keys are faster b/c they jump instantaneously to the screen and you just have your mouse ready over the rax.
Cadgers
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States514 Posts
October 24 2010 04:19 GMT
#7
On October 24 2010 08:15 Thrill wrote:
This was posted when GameRiot was 'the big thing' with a lot of hits and a lot of revenue. The recession burst the bubble though.\


Must have burst it pretty bad cause Starfeeder is just filled w/ spam posts for like the last few months.
onihunter
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States515 Posts
October 24 2010 05:09 GMT
#8
On October 24 2010 11:45 djcube wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2010 08:59 puppykiller wrote:
its faster not to use f2/f3/f4 for rax location but you need all the available hotkeys for controling an army in tvz (and 0/9 for scans) if you want to be using all the rines that are massing

How is it faster not to use the F keys over rax? F key takes one press and one click to focus on a rax. Regular hotkey takes 2 presses instead of 1 click +1 press. If anything they're at least equal. I'd even say F keys are faster b/c they jump instantaneously to the screen and you just have your mouse ready over the rax.


Because you can make units while in the middle of a battle without leaving the screen, which is useful. Also doesn't involve clicking, since you can just do 4d5d6d7d. Key presses are faster than clicks.
jaedong forever~
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4437 Posts
October 24 2010 06:21 GMT
#9
On October 24 2010 14:09 onihunter wrote:
Because you can make units while in the middle of a battle without leaving the screen, which is useful. Also doesn't involve clicking, since you can just do 4d5d6d7d. Key presses are faster than clicks.

you need those 4,5,6,7 hotkeys for units
hence f-keys are better late game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
DoA
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)599 Posts
October 24 2010 17:39 GMT
#10
Any newer player who wants to get serious about SC2 should read those Tasteless articles. It's an aspect of things not a lot of new players think about.
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