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c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
June 29 2012 11:18 GMT
#61
I think top 5 highest average APM I think is by.Hero, Nada, July, Gorush and Baby. Zerg players are usually fast.
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ninini
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden1204 Posts
June 29 2012 13:26 GMT
#62
There's quite a few players who can break 400 apm. In_dove was keeping around 400 apm consistently when he was streaming. Hiya have high apm too, around 370~. Hyuk have 400+ avg consistently. I would guess that by.hero have the highest apm among current progamers, followed by Hyuk. Then there's a bunch of players who average slightly below 400. I'm basing this on the active players from 2010-2011 though, so there might be some oldies who could break 400 in the old days. Some of the slowest modern progamers as far as I can remember is Fantasy, Stork and Brave. Fanta and Stork usually don't break 300 avg, and I think Brave is (was) about the same. It's worth noting however that zergs usually have higher natural apm, because of their unique macro design. Protoss also have slightly less than terran since they have a less convenient shortkey setup.
StarscreamG1
Profile Joined February 2011
Portugal1653 Posts
June 29 2012 13:29 GMT
#63
Bisu? APM at least, not EAPM.
zimp
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary955 Posts
June 29 2012 13:29 GMT
#64
535 is the highest apm i've seen in a normal match longer than 10 minutes:
http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=51308 (from 2005)
but G.s)Kyo wins highest spam rate as well: ~70% hotkey usage

a rep from 2011 with 518 apm
http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=51309

fastest progamer now is By.Cola from CJ i think, he is usually above 400, often 450+, close to 500
By.HerO is fast too but rather ~300-400, just like NaDa was and many many other progamer nowdays. july peaking once at 800 doesn't mean shit lol. he just held down the keys...

the apm highly depends on the matchup, build, and length of the game. generally if there is more ongoing micro, and the rep is short, the apm will be higher.
for example zergs usually have higher apm when using 2 hatch muta in zvt because its a heavy micro build and requires both hatchery spam and constant muta micro that means many move clicks at the same time. (thats why by.hero had so high apm vs fantasy in a 9minute game... but in other cases he is "just" ~350)

i think all progamers have pretty high e-apm, especially in TvZ where terrans need to do so many things, 250-60 Eapm in tvz is not rare at all in progaming standards. PvZ on the other hand is usually much more defensive so eapm stays lower there i think. Bisu still has 200+ eapm there too tho-.- his eapm is especially high.

but you don't need to have high apm to be successful, Savior raped everyone back then with ~230 normal apm, Fantasy has ~250, Stork ~270. Movie reached the osl final with his 220ish normal apm. Clever play and concentrating on the key micros is the most important.
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AsymptoticClimax
Profile Joined May 2012
United Kingdom249 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-06 13:56:55
July 06 2012 13:18 GMT
#65
DRG reached about 650 during an MLG iirc
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StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
July 06 2012 13:38 GMT
#66
I know a few players who can break well over 1K if they wanted, but they play really bad when they do that.
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6180 Posts
July 06 2012 13:44 GMT
#67
I remember there was a terran player that had >500apm average. He was high caliber player but I don't think he was progamer or even practise partner.

after reading Zimp's message, I think it was G.s)Kyo
hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
July 06 2012 14:50 GMT
#68
On June 29 2012 11:58 ShadeR wrote:
It was either a series vs Flash or a ZvZ series but Hyuk avg 550 in all games LOL


I think it was against Flash. In one of the games he had 600 average with ~1000 peak. He lost to a sunken bust before his mutas could come out. LOL
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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2500 Posts
July 06 2012 18:34 GMT
#69
On July 06 2012 22:38 StarStruck wrote:
I know a few players who can break well over 1K if they wanted, but they play really bad when they do that.


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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-06 19:57:05
July 06 2012 19:56 GMT
#70
On June 29 2012 12:03 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
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On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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


Actually, he was known for his 500 APM, with only a few others having such fast hands, his e-apm was similar though to flash at around 220.

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So uh wheres this 500 APM at? Cause all his replays are similar. This is confirmed to be Bisu btw.

most progamers average around 200 or something eAPM, anyone can spam and get a highass peak, you can see it in alot of Kingdom reps, where people are like OMG HE PEAKED AT LIKE 1K SO GOOD, where in reality he's holding down ctrl 1 or 1 the entire time.

Peaks are almost worthless to talk about

On July 06 2012 22:38 StarStruck wrote:
I know a few players who can break well over 1K if they wanted, but they play really bad when they do that.


I can hold a hotkey down or play in lag too, it doesnt make me good.
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Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
July 06 2012 20:28 GMT
#71
Weren't they talking about NaDa? I know for fact that NaDa has broken 500 apm (average for a full game), although his e-apm was surely less than half of that. Probably around the usual 200.

When NaDa first started out his hands were faster than pretty much everybody. Mechanically speaking he could hammer people into the ground with Boxer-like micro combined with absurd (by the standards of the day) multitasking ability. As other players began catching up mechanically, NaDa's answer seemed to be trying to play even faster. By comparison, I think one of the biggest advantages Flash had was that he skipped all of that. By the time Flash came along, everybody had very high apm with 300+ being very common. Flash probably has the highest e-apm of anyone, but he doesn't actually have the fastest hands (although his hands are really fucking fast). Mechanically speaking, Flash's key to success is that he focuses only on what's important and does a better job of that than anybody else. The different mindset leads to a different evolution as a player. NaDa wants to click more, more, more because that's what you have to do if you want to win on speed. Flash of course also clicks very fast, but the emphasis on focusing on what's important means prioritizing making clicks count over quantity of actions. It has a lot to do with the respective eras these guys evolved in.
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brolaf
Profile Joined May 2012
291 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-06 21:52:21
July 06 2012 21:42 GMT
#72
On June 29 2012 10:09 Wonders wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 05:56 gk_ender wrote:
On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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

Thats actually not true at all, Bisu does average over 400 effective apm all the time and is known in korea as the fastest progamer. Both Zero and By.hero are also known to achieve this level on the regular but just not as often or as quick as bisu. Flash and Stork btw are known to be 2 of the slowest eapm players currently so using him as an example isnt really telling. Eapm isnt everything obviously lol


Please show me a game where Bisu gets 400 EAPM. That's way higher than the highest I've seen, which is 270-280.

As for 'regular' APM the highest I've seen in replays was G.s)Kyo who was pretty much always above 500. I don't know his EAPM since EAPM counters weren't around back then but I'd be surprised if it was over 220.

Also it seems like progamers have significantly higher APMs in broadcast games than in practice games. The post-game stats in broadcast games are always 20-50% higher than any replays that I have. For example, Flash seems to have 350+ in his broadcast games, but in all of his replays (admittedly old) he has high 200s/low 300s.

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On June 29 2012 09:38 Ribbon wrote:
July peaked at 818, as people are saying. The highest recorded SC2 APM is DRG with 877 (per real minute), so 1656 can't possibly be real.

But peaks are weird. Averages are much more sensible to use, I think, if we're to start talking about who's faster


Yes, please don't talk about peaks, most of the absurdly high APMs are just people holding down ctrl+1. Also I don't think a 800+ peak is that hard in SC2 when you can just hold down 'R' with 40 larvae selected.
On July 07 2012 04:56 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 12:03 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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


Actually, he was known for his 500 APM, with only a few others having such fast hands, his e-apm was similar though to flash at around 220.

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


So uh wheres this 500 APM at? Cause all his replays are similar. This is confirmed to be Bisu btw.

most progamers average around 200 or something eAPM, anyone can spam and get a highass peak, you can see it in alot of Kingdom reps, where people are like OMG HE PEAKED AT LIKE 1K SO GOOD, where in reality he's holding down ctrl 1 or 1 the entire time.

Peaks are almost worthless to talk about

Show nested quote +
On July 06 2012 22:38 StarStruck wrote:
I know a few players who can break well over 1K if they wanted, but they play really bad when they do that.


I can hold a hotkey down or play in lag too, it doesnt make me good.


Look, when bisu is microing his PvZ corsairs, theres practically no reduncancy, he is at super sayan level practically during that time
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
July 06 2012 22:15 GMT
#73
On July 07 2012 06:42 brolaf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 10:09 Wonders wrote:
On June 29 2012 05:56 gk_ender wrote:
On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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

Thats actually not true at all, Bisu does average over 400 effective apm all the time and is known in korea as the fastest progamer. Both Zero and By.hero are also known to achieve this level on the regular but just not as often or as quick as bisu. Flash and Stork btw are known to be 2 of the slowest eapm players currently so using him as an example isnt really telling. Eapm isnt everything obviously lol


Please show me a game where Bisu gets 400 EAPM. That's way higher than the highest I've seen, which is 270-280.

As for 'regular' APM the highest I've seen in replays was G.s)Kyo who was pretty much always above 500. I don't know his EAPM since EAPM counters weren't around back then but I'd be surprised if it was over 220.

Also it seems like progamers have significantly higher APMs in broadcast games than in practice games. The post-game stats in broadcast games are always 20-50% higher than any replays that I have. For example, Flash seems to have 350+ in his broadcast games, but in all of his replays (admittedly old) he has high 200s/low 300s.

On June 29 2012 09:38 Ribbon wrote:
July peaked at 818, as people are saying. The highest recorded SC2 APM is DRG with 877 (per real minute), so 1656 can't possibly be real.

But peaks are weird. Averages are much more sensible to use, I think, if we're to start talking about who's faster


Yes, please don't talk about peaks, most of the absurdly high APMs are just people holding down ctrl+1. Also I don't think a 800+ peak is that hard in SC2 when you can just hold down 'R' with 40 larvae selected.
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2012 04:56 arb wrote:
On June 29 2012 12:03 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
On June 29 2012 02:20 Qeet wrote:
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


Actually, he was known for his 500 APM, with only a few others having such fast hands, his e-apm was similar though to flash at around 220.

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


So uh wheres this 500 APM at? Cause all his replays are similar. This is confirmed to be Bisu btw.

most progamers average around 200 or something eAPM, anyone can spam and get a highass peak, you can see it in alot of Kingdom reps, where people are like OMG HE PEAKED AT LIKE 1K SO GOOD, where in reality he's holding down ctrl 1 or 1 the entire time.

Peaks are almost worthless to talk about

On July 06 2012 22:38 StarStruck wrote:
I know a few players who can break well over 1K if they wanted, but they play really bad when they do that.


I can hold a hotkey down or play in lag too, it doesnt make me good.


Look, when bisu is microing his PvZ corsairs, theres practically no reduncancy, he is at super sayan level practically during that time

Being able to do almost no redundancy microing corsairs isnt the same as "known for his 400 eAPM" or "500 average APM" counting that shit in spikes doesnt work.

I mean hell playing TvZ at the C Level i could make my battles vs large armies go to like 400 easily, and im by no means as good as Bisu or Flash.
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-06 22:35:02
July 06 2012 22:33 GMT
#74
nvm

gogo july ^_^

nice to hear these talks again
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GrazerRinge
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
999 Posts
July 07 2012 01:07 GMT
#75
this is like who has the bigger d***.... i thought TL used to be better then this
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Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
July 07 2012 01:33 GMT
#76
On July 07 2012 10:07 GrazerRinge wrote:
this is like who has the bigger d***.... i thought TL used to be better then this


Well you could try to get Rekrul to go on a ban hammer craze.
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Archers_bane
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1338 Posts
July 07 2012 02:14 GMT
#77
I would die to see the FPVOD of July doing 800+ APM
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doktorLucifer
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States855 Posts
July 07 2012 02:32 GMT
#78
I have a replay from some non-pro named "ganfei" where he averages like 400-450 apm. He was playing SK terran vs a protoss (it was a TZ vs PZ 2v2 game.)
FakeDeath
Profile Joined January 2011
Malaysia6060 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-07 04:26:17
July 07 2012 04:25 GMT
#79
Peak APM means nothing.
It's the average APM that matters .

If i am not mistaken,Nada and July average APM usually hover between 450-550 APM.Possibly highest i have seen.
Though there was this one time July had 818 APM while micro-ing 2 muta group at the same time in TvZ(ZerO and JD are other two that does this exceptionally well).

But then we got Fantasy,Flash and way back Savior that are known for their sick decision making and strategies but does not have like super super high APM.Mostly usually hover around average 250-300ishhh.

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Neo7
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States922 Posts
July 07 2012 04:51 GMT
#80
NaDa and JulyZerg were the two players that always stood out to me as having the highest average APM.
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