every game i always look at my keyboard...

i tried today not too and holy i got a headache. apm dropped from 150 to 114 ....

im gonna try playing without looking. cuz i always look to see if i hit the keys right. today i missed the B key atleast 10-20 times per game !!!! and my numbers... and the other letters... the only thing i havedown is BA (build assimilator)

lol.

Kentor

United States5784 Posts

March 18 2009 02:57 GMT

i'm still having trouble with B P and V O, and o and p in general

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

March 18 2009 03:00 GMT

just put something on them, i put duct tape on a t m and o (i play terran)

makes it so much easier to find the keys

Insane

United States4991 Posts

March 18 2009 03:01 GMT

I never look at the keyboard when playing... How do you do both? It seems that it would take an inordinate amount of time to look at the keyboard after doing anything

You should be able to tell where you are on the keyboard due to the bumps on a couple of the keys (although I don't use that so much, I'm familiar with the distance between keys so I just use that in some cases).

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

March 18 2009 03:02 GMT

Just do it over and over even when you're not in a game. Hell just do it in a word document or in the count down screen. Obviously not just mass bpbpbpbp but move your fingers quickly from your normal resting position, like on the # keys and quickly do bp accurately and just do that over and over. You master it pretty fast.

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

March 18 2009 03:03 GMT

actually i just thought of something

just type with one hand whenever you post on teamliquid or something. you'll probably get used to where all the keys are pretty fast.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

March 18 2009 03:07 GMT

I hate it when I go to my gates and make a round of xxxxxxxxxxx or something instead of a round of zzzzzzzzzzz.

then I'm like lol where are my units?

Edit: or like on bnet with no lan lat and I realize im pressing the keys too fast while changing gates and it isnt registering. or like 1 gate is making 5 while 4 others do nothing

Cloud

Sexico5880 Posts

March 18 2009 03:14 GMT

Heh, when i started playing, terran was so hard for me because the 'i' is so separated from the rest of the keyboard, my vultures and vessels would just end up patrolling ~.~

Elite00fm

United States548 Posts

March 18 2009 03:15 GMT

lol whenever i'm in the game lobby waiting for the host to go I always spam:
5sh6sh7sh8sh9sh0sh
5sd6sd7sd8sd9sd0sd
5sz6sz7sz8sz9sz0sz

after spamming that a few thousand times you remember how to do it without looking lol

koreasilver

9109 Posts

March 18 2009 03:15 GMT

#10

On March 18 2009 12:07 Fontong wrote:
I hate it when I go to my gates and make a round of xxxxxxxxxxx or something instead of a round of zzzzzzzzzzz.

then I'm like lol where are my units?

Edit: or like on bnet with no lan lat and I realize im pressing the keys too fast while changing gates and it isnt registering. or like 1 gate is making 5 while 4 others do nothing

That happens all the time for me. It's so frustrating.

BanZu

United States3329 Posts

March 18 2009 03:31 GMT

#11

Eh, it's not hard at all with a bit of practice. It helps a lot if you can already type without having to look.

The one problem I've ever had was with Terran. I would always queue up marines from 6+ rax only to see none of them flashing. Always turned out that I was pressing , instead of m

oxidized

United States324 Posts

March 18 2009 03:35 GMT

#12

On March 18 2009 12:03 404.Nitrogen wrote:
actually i just thought of something

just type with one hand whenever you post on teamliquid or something. you'll probably get used to where all the keys are pretty fast.

Wow that us a pretty fopos idea nurtogge,! I wiull try thus iut grin nniw in.

Ok looks like I need some practice with that...

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

March 18 2009 03:36 GMT

#13

i have one of those desks where the keyboard rests under the top portion of the desk, so i cant see when i type normally, since my hands go under the desk basically.. it really helps for that.

also, i guess after 10 years of SC and war3, my muscle memory is so built up, least for zerg hotkeying.. my protoss is abit shaky, mainly the jump to P for probe and back to B for build, i hit V sometimes by mistake and get stuck in 2nd tier buildings and ugh thats lame.. for zerg its pretty automatic though.

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

March 18 2009 03:39 GMT

#14

lol when I play T I just smash the "uiop" area of the keyboard anytime I want to lay mines, siege tanks, or use irradiate. Most of the time the correct key is part of what I hit so it works ^_^

x89titan

Philippines1130 Posts

March 18 2009 03:58 GMT

#15

theres a keyboard that doesnt show the letters and stuff. you can toggle the characters on and off.

here it is
+ Show Spoiler +

http://www.daskeyboard.com/

Kentor

United States5784 Posts

March 18 2009 04:17 GMT

#16

i'm sure most people know about das keyboard. it's a mechanical keyboard that's $80+. in fact, most mechanical keyboards are at least 50 dollars
and you can't toggle it on or off. what? the keys aren't little LED screens

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

March 18 2009 04:25 GMT

#17

On March 18 2009 12:15 koreasilver wrote:

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That happens all the time for me. It's so frustrating.

Happens with my vultures sometimes. I look at my nat and i realize i have like 8 tanks there and no vultures... Then a dozen zeals roll on in >_<

I have the odd errors here and there, usually messing up i o and p. Sometimes i hit i for siege mode by accident, or o for laying mines by accident, and 60% of the time I press o instead of i for irradiate. Reeeeeeeeeally frustrating there..

Synthesis

Canada167 Posts

March 18 2009 04:27 GMT

#18

Whats odd is I don't really look at my keyboard while I play (maybe I do out the corner of my eye or something o_O), but when I turn off my lights I misclick way more and have to actually look to hotkey stuff.

deathgod6

United States5064 Posts

March 18 2009 04:30 GMT

#19

Some of the progamers put tape on certain keys on their keyboard so they can tell where their hand is. Looking down is going to slow you down for sure.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

March 18 2009 04:35 GMT

#20

On March 18 2009 13:27 Synthesis wrote:
Whats odd is I don't really look at my keyboard while I play (maybe I do out the corner of my eye or something o_O), but when I turn off my lights I misclick way more and have to actually look to hotkey stuff.

Actually I get this a tonne too, when I turn off the lights at night so I don't wake anyone up I play horribly because of this, so I bought a lamp for my desk which has had a noticable improvement