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TheCore Day 11&12: Some ladder, some training.

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EntropyFails
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
81 Posts
May 12 2013 23:27 GMT
#1
Hello Readers!

For Day 11 and 12 I did both ladder training on the unranked side, which I won but I think it was the first time my opponent had ever played Zerg. I just wanted to rid myself of the stigma that I'm somehow afraid of playing humans. I did and it was fun but I still feel like I'm getting more out of my focused practice.

To that end, I spent some more time upgrading hotkeytrainer. I now have it so that it remembers mistakes and weights the questions towards your week points. Doing that, along making it so the timeout could be a floating point number allows me to really hone in on the actions that are not flowing quickly from my fingers.

I'll keep doing games against to avoid the stigma but I honestly believe that playing a game of Starcraft is the worst way of training yourself for Starcraft. What you really need is good flows and the ability to micro very specific situations over and over again to learn. The vast space of the actual Starcraft game makes learning much harder. By focusing down on specific scenarios and general muscle memory patterns. Of course to prove this I have to improve on my game and I'm not close yet.

But I'll keep trying! Thanks for reading!

PassionFruit
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
294 Posts
May 12 2013 23:47 GMT
#2
How do you focus your training if you have no understanding of your actual deficiencies? It's an inefficient training method based off of pure speculation. "Focused practice" is wasted practice if you're focusing on unnecessary areas.

Play 20 real games. Learn your actual deficiencies. Then practice to overcome them. Otherwise you will basically be training in a blind fog, over training in some while under training in others. Try to tailor your "TheCore" training to something useful.

Plus the emphasis on micro is overrated for most players. You can basically a-move and win if your macro is superior to your opponent.
EntropyFails
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
81 Posts
May 14 2013 09:49 GMT
#3
I know that I'm failing my hotkey mechanics..It is obvious. I "want" to do something but then select the wrong things. That's an easy win to fix that and it doesn't require playing any Starcraft.

I do play real games as well but I feel the focus practice has helped more than the "real games". I'm a big proponent of focused practice on any skill. No one plays full games of soccer to train for it, they focus on drills during training for a reason. The focus breeds skill.

In Starcraft, where you do a million things wrong every second, trying to optimize in that huge search space doesn't give your brain enough to latch on to for real learning. Narrowing it down, training it into muscle memory, then playing a full game or two to apply that skill is the best plan as far as I can see.
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