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MoreFaSho
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
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buickskylark
Canada664 Posts
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Versita
Canada1032 Posts
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
 It took me about 1-2 months to get me used to using the keyboard but it helped a ton now that i use hotkeys so much more because your macro will get better and your management also gets alot better. How about you try playing the whole game without touching the small panel in the right hand corner? shouldnt be hard, since its Bronze league but even if you do fail at doing so, practice using hotkeys against the computers. | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
It's been a struggle so far to say the least. I did terrible in my placement matches and lost the first 10 or so games I played.. I'm 28 wins and 31 losses right now and ranked 15th in my bronze league. I have to admit more often than not I just find myself using the shift and control group my production facilities..not using the otherhotkeys as diligently as I want to. i think part of my problem is i never get to play for more than a couple hours.. which makes getting into a rythm a problem.. especially with my 1 year old trying to climb stairs and falling off the couch while i'm being attacked lol | ||
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CryingCow
Canada149 Posts
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
I select my gateways (double clicking one to select all) select the unit I want to create from the bottom right selector.. hold shift and click a bunch of times anywhere powered by my pylon (warp prism) If i don't hold shift i have to keep going back to the right and select a new unit.. that's very time consuming.. so I have become comfortable holding shift to warp in units... but I do the same for every race.. I play as random | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
not that 2v2 or 3v3 league placement means much but I'm Plat in 2v2 and Gold in 3v3. Hoping to hit Gold in 1v1 by the end of the season! ![[image loading]](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/221659_1696254641814_1101273780_31488257_3482758_n.jpg) my hotkey useage is coming along.. still don't use them more often than not but I think what's helped more than anything is finding build orders that work for me. I play random and as Terran and Protoss I'm 63% win ratio.. I struggle as Zerg though | ||
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palanq
United States761 Posts
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MiraKul
Malaysia498 Posts
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog It contains all of the letters of the alphabet. After practicing with this, I can type without looking at the keyboard with 90ish WPM | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
As far as where the keys are yes I am familiar with them . If I don’t look at the keyboard and type I make quite a few more ‘fat fingered’ mistakes than if I look at it.. thing is when I look at it it’s not like I’m searching for keys as much as I just do a blank stare at the middle of the keyboard. I think the issue is I don’t hold my hands over the keys like they teach you in school. Since I only use 4 fingers (3 from my right and 1 from my left) it becomes interesting when I start jabbing for keys with my left hand alone.. especially w/o looking. Considering I’m right handed and use the mouse with my right.. typing with just my left becomes significantly slower and sloppier when playing starcraft. I’ve been doing it for my whole life this way and I think that’s why learning hotkeys has been such an issue for me. | ||
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qdenser
Canada133 Posts
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
My new goal is to hit Platinum before this season ends. My hotkey usage.. well… lack there of. Still only using control group 1 for production buildings and holding shift for commands.. the rest is all mouse play. Two things I’m having issues with and need to start improving on.. micro and better zerg play. Yesterday TVT I tried to capitalize on my opponent only getting 3 marines and going fast starport. I walked up his ramp with 6 marines before his bunker finished and killed off his marines.. then he brought all his SCVs to the fight.. but I couldn’t micro well enough to kill them.. they were winning the fight. It made me feel terrible. I had the game basically won but could not pull it off.. he wound up winning that game and I was so far ahead… TVT used to be my best match up.. I was like 80% win ratio.. it’s dropped to 65% or so.. and still falling The lower level zerg’s in bronze and silver could be beaten pretty easily.. Now I can’t beat Zerg for crap. I think I’ve lost like 10 straight games against zerg. Muta/Ling/infestor/broodlords aarrgg. Roach Hyrda no problem.. unless it’s zvz then It’s a race to who can get the most roaches.. so lame. Protoss has now become my best race to play with.. only PvP I'm so tired of seeing 4 gate... 1 base play all day for these people Need to seriously improve in those area’s. I think the good news it every game’s a challenge now.. whereas before I would almost always win if I didn’t make stupid mistakes.. now even if I don’t make mistakes I could lose | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
Went from Bronze to Plat in 1v1 in less than 250 games total. I'm hoping to hit diamond in less than 400. Here goes! Zerg is still my weakest race but I've started to find strats that are working. If I can keep improving my Z I should be good.. I feel my T and P are progressing well! | ||
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Synystyr
United States1446 Posts
Sounds like you've definitely improved and stepped up your game over the last 4 months :D Keep it up! I'll be rooting | ||
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
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Maero
349 Posts
I'm around that level, feel free to PM me if you want some practice games! | ||
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MiraKul
Malaysia498 Posts
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