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-Kira
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
352 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-06 09:12:20
May 06 2012 09:11 GMT
#1
Finally i started practicing alot. I'm not gonna get into the details, but let's just say i have trouble with doing what i have planned for myself to do, even if it's silly/simple task, so that's a huge stepping stone for me.

After playing over 50 games in a day, i could feel my wrist was tired like never before (and i have played games for longer than that in the past). That's a good sign. Those muscles are going to develop like any other muscle and with my good diet and all the other stuff i do (working out, sleeping well etc.) progress is unavoidable.

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"Steady and persistent practice seems to be the only way." - Moon

I also found great analogy to StarCraft mechanics and improving at the game:

Think about your password, one that you're using for very long time. It may be your Gmail account password, or password to acces your profile on your computer. Now go back to when you came up with the idea for it and typed it the first time. You type it carefully, not to make a mistake, letter by letter.

Now, few days after that you type it a little faster but you still have to think a while, not to mess up the order of the letters, and you may type it incorrectly if you're trying to do it faster.

Now, three months after that, you type it fast without even thinking, it became muscle memory.

And finally after a year or more, you type the password with blazing speed and if someone was looking at the keyboard while you were typing, he couldn't even tell how many letters the password has, you're so fast.

The interesting thing is, that you didn't go to PasswordTyping forum, to find ways of fast typing your password and getting it correctly every time. You didn't play minigames to increase your speed of typing each letter, you didn't buy special PasswordTypingPro keyboard. You just did it over, and over, and over again.

Kazahk
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States385 Posts
May 06 2012 09:45 GMT
#2
I practice 12 to 10 hours a day to :D
Cya at GSL in a year or two. ;p
Rngesus blessed me with a tooth half, then shunned me with a spinach roll.
-Exalt-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States972 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-06 10:38:22
May 06 2012 10:35 GMT
#3
Very true.

For a while I was kind of playing a few games but was kind of nervous cause I wasn't comfortable in certain matchups / certain maps etc, it just wasn't effective. My rank was stagnant even if I payed alot of attention to pro games etc.

Recently though I decided to focus on consistent worthwhile practice. Worthwhile meaning, NOT caring about ladder rank and more about improving (ie playing a reactive game based around scouting, and not around an all in cause I want ladder points). The surprise? my rank went wayyyyy up to top 8 masters and i feel more and more confident every time I queue because the little decisions that seemed so tough before, now are not tough because i've done them so many times / been in so many diff situations with my builds.

ie 1 month ago I would always be getting supply blocked at key points in my PvZ macro build, or I wouldn't be making certain buildings / upgrades on time. but after 40 games of the same build? Everything is down 100% and i can focus on other stuff like micro / decision making.
Shock710
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia6097 Posts
May 06 2012 12:32 GMT
#4
I wish i had the time to practise 12 hours day...so much work from uni is keeping me up so late, i just wanna play Starcraft!
dAPhREAk gives Shock a * | [23:55] <Shock710> that was out of context -_- [16:26] <@motbob> Good question, Shock!
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