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Snijjer
Profile Joined September 2011
United States989 Posts
June 28 2012 17:01 GMT
#1
I was just wondering what the highest apm you've ever seen is.

I just played a 3v3 BGH game and one of my opponents had a peak of 1656 (!!) according to BWCharts.
Vazze
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden279 Posts
June 28 2012 17:05 GMT
#2
Sounds like your opponent hacked. I know Julyzerg once spiked 800~ in a televised game.
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Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3351 Posts
June 28 2012 17:06 GMT
#3
He was probably hacking to attain a spike like that or just holding down a hotkey.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 28 2012 17:08 GMT
#4
That's not a hack, that's just someone holding down ctrl + # for awhile. BW chart reads it as many actions being repeated over and over.

peak APM can be cool because it usually coincides with a micro battle, but steady apm is often hotkey spam to keep you you playing quickly, rather than accomplishing a lot at once. Because of these things it is often more interesting to look at your own APM because you know exactly what it means and how you play, whether it is spam or not etc.
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pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
June 28 2012 17:14 GMT
#5
Probably Nada or something, averaging 400 e-apm.

Watched a korean progamer show (I think it was Nal_Ra) saying that there were progamers with 500 apm but were just spamming needlessly and actually slowing down their gameplay.
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10315 Posts
June 28 2012 17:18 GMT
#6
July got 818 apm spike somehow.
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yB.TeH
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Germany415 Posts
June 28 2012 17:20 GMT
#7
On June 29 2012 02:14 pyrogenetix wrote:
Probably Nada or something, averaging 400 e-apm.

Watched a korean progamer show (I think it was Nal_Ra) saying that there were progamers with 500 apm but were just spamming needlessly and actually slowing down their gameplay.


no one is averaging 400 eapm...
nada used to have 400average apm in most of his games. highest average eapm i have seen was around 270eapm in flash replays .s
thealexw87
Profile Joined February 2011
United States47 Posts
June 28 2012 17:29 GMT
#8
Whoa 270 eapm is wowowowowow! That guy is a cyborg lol
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
June 28 2012 17:32 GMT
#9
On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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On June 29 2012 02:14 pyrogenetix wrote:
Probably Nada or something, averaging 400 e-apm.

Watched a korean progamer show (I think it was Nal_Ra) saying that there were progamers with 500 apm but were just spamming needlessly and actually slowing down their gameplay.


no one is averaging 400 eapm...
nada used to have 400average apm in most of his games. highest average eapm i have seen was around 270eapm in flash replays .s

Yea that's probably correct now that I think about it.
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Snijjer
Profile Joined September 2011
United States989 Posts
June 28 2012 17:38 GMT
#10
I think that BWCharts doesn't actually catch multi-command... Is that anyone elses experience as well?
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
June 28 2012 17:48 GMT
#11
Peak APM should never be considered for any record, unless someone uses exactly the same formula for calculating that peak APM (exactly the same minimum time interval of updating); but that also depends on the player's hardware.

By holding a key and setting my keyboard to detect a held key as often as technically possible, I've sometimes gotten peak APM upwards of 4000+, but that just doesn't mean anything.

I'm interested in the highest recorded average APM in an official BW match though. As far as I know, the known record is held by Julyzerg with something like 500-600 average APM, but I may be wrong.
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]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
June 28 2012 17:57 GMT
#12
by.hero has ~500-530 average

july hit 800+ peak during an official match
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Kau *
Profile Joined March 2007
Canada3500 Posts
June 28 2012 18:04 GMT
#13
On June 29 2012 02:08 Chef wrote:
That's not a hack, that's just someone holding down ctrl + # for awhile. BW chart reads it as many actions being repeated over and over.

peak APM can be cool because it usually coincides with a micro battle, but steady apm is often hotkey spam to keep you you playing quickly, rather than accomplishing a lot at once. Because of these things it is often more interesting to look at your own APM because you know exactly what it means and how you play, whether it is spam or not etc.


Without lag, holding down a key in the fastest game setting only gets me 800-1000 APM (with the key repeat set to highest on the windows keyboard config).

The >12 unit selection hack can get really high APMs though.
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Aelfric
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Turkey1496 Posts
June 28 2012 18:14 GMT
#14
Back in the day there was a guy named Clair[GsP] and he was averaging arround 420 apm with protoss which was unseen at that time because everyone was thinking that protoss required less actions. I remember seeing his peak arround 550 apm without using ctrl+ # tricks or anything so he was legit i guess.
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AoN.DimSum
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States2983 Posts
June 28 2012 18:16 GMT
#15
I remember there was a semi pro protoss player with 500~ apm. I really can't remember the name but it was something like hermito(sp?)
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nanaoei
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
3358 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:25:14
June 28 2012 18:21 GMT
#16
i knew some people back in BW while i was practicing who wrote macros to spam for them. i'd check our replays afterwards and they would peak 20,000, haha.. just a random memory of that.

i thought julyzerg peaked over 880? it was in a game against Best (finals) was it not? they usually show those stats during match analysis between games at an OSL. I think By.Hero has the highest average out of any known player, usually above 450 average. i would not be surprised if he's gone above 900 in an OSL/MSL match. then again, i don't recall him being a starleaguer for a while now, please correct me if i'm wrong.

julyzerg's record was definitely up there, i remember seeing it, calculating it slowly in my head, and going to my friends to tell them, "YO. THAT'S 15-mousclicks/keyboard strokes a SECOND!" honestly for that one second/minute spike (400-900apm), i know some who don't make that many actions in an entire GAME.
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raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:37:10
June 28 2012 18:33 GMT
#17
You should check out this thread http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=89072&currentpage=All .
According to OGN Yarnc picked at 3992 APM .
FT.aCt)Sony
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1048 Posts
June 28 2012 18:38 GMT
#18
Hold shift and then hold one of your hot keys. Watch what happens to your apm unless they removed it
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10315 Posts
June 28 2012 18:40 GMT
#19
3992... wat a hacker. wow how is that even possible? the hotkey spam only gets 1k i thought.
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FT.aCt)Sony
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1048 Posts
June 28 2012 19:04 GMT
#20
On June 29 2012 03:40 FlaShFTW wrote:
3992... wat a hacker. wow how is that even possible? the hotkey spam only gets 1k i thought.


Lag with it you'll see a higher count.
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