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The Quest for New Hot Keys

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Son of Gnome
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States777 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-15 03:21:44
May 15 2012 03:19 GMT
#1
So with the coming of summer I have decided to completely redo my current hotkey set up. Originally I was using 1 for main army, 2 for all production, 3 for ghosts, banshess, hellions stuff like that, 4 was cc, 5 just facts, 6 starport, 7 just barracks,8 I remapped to Q and used that for drops and the like. As you can tell my original setup was awful, but I was able to use it to some success (diamond level terran). In order to learn my new hotkeys I first needed an account there was noway I was going to tank my precious ladder ranking Luckily my friend gave me his old account he only uses for customs every once in a while. I had the account all i needed was the hotkeys. I left my cc the same, but put all production on 5, facts on 6, starports on 7, and barracks on 8. This gives me the ability to have 123 just for units. Making it much easier to control my army than trying to go 13Q. With my new hotkeys fresh in my mind, I was ready to ladder it up. Somehow I was place back into diamond while using these new hotkeys. Honestly I am shocked, the people that I played in plat I felt were not even gold caliber... I spent half the games looking down trying to figure out what I am doing and my APM has dropped off a ton. I feel that with a little bit of practice I will get them down. The only real issue I see is that in a big battle I go to 2 to produce marines out of pure habit. That has lost me a few games here and there but NBD. I also think I need to work on my hand placement on my keyboard. I usually leave it over ASD as if I am playing an FPS with my little finger on shift. With the new hotkeys I am using I am trying to do the same thing but I could switch my hand placement to the middle of the keyboard if needed. If anyone has any advice concerning hand placement on the keyboard, or any general let me know .

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Juliette
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6003 Posts
May 15 2012 03:27 GMT
#2
ive learned to put my hands over 124 (left ring, middle, index) with my pinky hovering over shift or ctrl...
only for starcarft though.
try using ~ for another hotkey
OKAY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE I SEE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
Son of Gnome
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States777 Posts
May 15 2012 03:29 GMT
#3
On May 15 2012 12:27 Juliette wrote:
ive learned to put my hands over 124 (left ring, middle, index) with my pinky hovering over shift or ctrl...
only for starcarft though.
try using ~ for another hotkey

I use ~ for base swapping, thanks for reminding me actually I need to remap than on my new account lol.
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Juliette
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6003 Posts
May 15 2012 03:38 GMT
#4
What's on your space bar? I have space for base swap
OKAY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE I SEE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5356 Posts
May 15 2012 03:44 GMT
#5
lol for the longest time I did 1-rax, 2-fact, 3-starport, 4-8 CCs, 9 scout, 0 all upgrades...
yeah i clicked around A LOT
¯\_(シ)_/¯
Son of Gnome
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States777 Posts
May 15 2012 03:49 GMT
#6
On May 15 2012 12:38 Juliette wrote:
What's on your space bar? I have space for base swap

Whatever it normally is, recent event in game or something like that.
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Juliette
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6003 Posts
May 15 2012 03:55 GMT
#7
On May 15 2012 12:49 Son of Gnome wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 15 2012 12:38 Juliette wrote:
What's on your space bar? I have space for base swap

Whatever it normally is, recent event in game or something like that.

rebind it to something useful, even a camera hotkey for your rally :p.

its useful as hell cause your thumb is almost always in that area anyway
OKAY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE I SEE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
Cool Cat
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1644 Posts
May 15 2012 04:10 GMT
#8
When I clicked on this blog, I was very curious as to what hot keys were. Unfortunately, you were talking about hotkeys.
Son of Gnome
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States777 Posts
May 15 2012 04:53 GMT
#9
On May 15 2012 13:10 Cool Cat wrote:
When I clicked on this blog, I was very curious as to what hot keys were. Unfortunately, you were talking about hotkeys.

google corrected lol
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CPTBadAss
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States594 Posts
May 15 2012 05:39 GMT
#10
I play Terran and I actually use the same hotkey setup that KawaiiRice uses. No I didn't get the idea from him but it turns out that it is the same.

1: CCs
2: Rax's
3: Fact
4: Starport
5-7 Army
9: Armory
0: Engineering Bay

I also have 0 binded to the ~ Key. I also have been trying to see if I can combine Rax/Fact into one hotkey but I can't get the factories to build tanks/hellions for some reason.

Oh, and I use the F keys for locations.

F1: Main
F2: Natural
F3: Third
etc etc

I have small hands and always found 1a2a to be uncomfortable. I feel like 5a6a works much better for me. It's cool that you did the change though. I made the change from the tradition 1a2a3a army setup a while back.
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