My improvement rate

WindCalibur

Canada938 Posts

February 07 2009 10:13 GMT

Recently, I have been worried about my improvement rate, especially my eapm in particular. It is a terrible 100-130. No matter how hard I try to improve that, I always get within that range. I came back to starcraft two weeks ago from a 3 month break. I believe I had around 100-80 eapm before I took the break. Now I am at 100-130 so so I guess that is a tiny improvement. However, my eapm haven't gone up in the past week. Is this normal or not?

However, I do realize my play improving as I get more used to b/o and get more used to sc in general again.

I have an acc with C- rank with dead 50 percent win ratio and a D+ rank acc for only ZvT with around 70 percent win ratio if anyone is wondering.

De4ngus

United States6533 Posts

February 07 2009 10:17 GMT

Dude, APM =/= improvement rate.

WindCalibur

Canada938 Posts

February 07 2009 10:22 GMT

My main problem is that I have trouble clicking faster. Sometimes I have trouble keeping my mineral low and perform hive tech properly either because I am too busy microing my mutas or something or I simply do not have enough multitasking skils....

Miraculously, this problem is a lot smaller in my ZvP as I hardly ever go over 1k minerals in ZvP. (maybe it's because there are so much protoss on iccup -.-)

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

February 07 2009 10:27 GMT

What do you mean "is it normal", there aren't any set rules on how fast you should be improving. And eapm doesn't measure how good you are anyway. Anyway, less thinking about what you've already played and more playing.

WindCalibur

Canada938 Posts

February 07 2009 10:33 GMT

Well I'm wondering if maybe I hit my limit or something....

stet_tcl

Greece319 Posts

February 07 2009 10:34 GMT

From my experience the learning procedure goes through these phases, like you may get stuck for a while and suddenly improve etc. Its definitely not linear..
My advice would be don't worry about it

If you see its working for you try taking an other break at some point, perhaps not as long though.

whatusername

Canada1181 Posts

February 07 2009 11:08 GMT

i used to be like you, always worrying about my apm and how much it improves

but once I started to stop thinking about it, my apm actually improved a lot more

Aesop

Hungary11284 Posts

February 07 2009 11:56 GMT

Play some Reflex for mouse speed practice (http://www.missionred.com). It's not the real thing, but I feel like my speed and accuracy improves.

Phrujbaz

Netherlands512 Posts

February 07 2009 12:18 GMT

Practice theory teaches that when you hit a wall, you're missing something essential.

My advice is to SLOW DOWN and put all of your brainpower into figuring out what you're doing wrong.

On February 07 2009 19:34 stet_tcl wrote:
From my experience the learning procedure goes through these phases, like you may get stuck for a while and suddenly improve etc. Its definitely not linear..
My advice would be don't worry about it

If you see its working for you try taking an other break at some point, perhaps not as long though.

You get stuck at a wall until you figure it out, then you improve quickly, up to your next wall. That is the reason behind the "jumping" pattern. Taking a break can help because it gets you out of your old bad habits that are causing the wall, but putting 100% of your effort into finding out what those bad habits are can be effective too.

Edit: Just a tip: Most common cause of speed wall is insufficient mouse accuracy. A misclick ruins your rhythm, you want to be able to click the right spot with 100% confidence at your playing speed.

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