EPTtraining really means training. when people think of the word "training", they usually think of developing skills (alright, mastery and proficiency - very cool). But you also "train" your dog, through simple things and repetition, as if the dog (and you, when you train) had miniscule IQ. It's not very cool or confidence boosting to think of it this way. But because of our biology, the seemingly designed for dunces is actually one of the best ways of learning. (it still sucks to do it though)
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gwho
United States632 Posts
training really means training. when people think of the word "training", they usually think of developing skills (alright, mastery and proficiency - very cool). But you also "train" your dog, through simple things and repetition, as if the dog (and you, when you train) had miniscule IQ. It's not very cool or confidence boosting to think of it this way. But because of our biology, the seemingly designed for dunces is actually one of the best ways of learning. (it still sucks to do it though) | ||
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ZeroCartin
Costa Rica2390 Posts
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Realpenguin
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By the way, APMAlert (in Chaoslauncher) is quite awesome. Especially with a funny alert sound. | ||
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
On April 03 2008 07:22 Realpenguin wrote: lol, this exercise is fun. I'm putting my spamming skills to the test, and I can see my macro getting a little bit better already. By the way, APMAlert (in Chaoslauncher) is quite awesome. Especially with a funny alert sound. That noise makes me wanna kill myself... I have to find a new one to put in it. | ||
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iCCup.Trent
Argentina454 Posts
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killanator
United States549 Posts
On April 03 2008 06:53 ZeroCartin wrote: im starting this practice.. 2 games, but i get tired of spammin after a while. Im on 158 and 175 :p *my regular apm is about 130* gotta keep on making shortcuts and travel through different screens. And i noticed, that because of focusing on this, i kinda loose my objective on the strategy so i think the idea is you focus ALL your energy on apm and mins at the beginning, dont worry about strategy at all and dont care if you lose(dont release the replays on the internets either XD that wud be humiliating) and then eventually your hand speed will be natural and you can worry about handy little things like strategy and micro later on im guna be doing this plus some other exercises to test how it workls and may release a thread about it, what i plan on doing is for 4 days(during spring break) i will do 1 hour on the lt macro training map, 1 hour on ums micro training maps, and 3 hours or more on this. man tho its sort of a lame spring break thing to do but ive been busy and i want to be good before summer cuz then ill spend summer getting good and wont be good before sc2 comes out... | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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1t2t3t4t5taw
Andorra173 Posts
On April 06 2008 11:07 zulu_nation8 wrote: hey you know what's a good excercise for getting better at bw? play more games More useful advice, cuz u know practicing shooting hoops in bball won't do anything, you can only improve accuracy with playing the game!! | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
On April 06 2008 11:10 1t2t3t4t5taw wrote: More useful advice, cuz u know practicing shooting hoops in bball won't do anything, you can only improve accuracy with playing the game!! Oh i'm sorry you're right, clicking fast is all you need to become a good bw player | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
On July 09 2007 23:38 zulu_nation8 wrote: I believe this is a terrible way to boost your speed, your apm improves when your feel for the keyboard and mouse improves naturally after playing thousands of games. Trying to boost it artificially through spamming and playing the computer is awful for your development. When you play ladder, you'll encounter a lot of players who are average but later when you look at bwchart you'll notice they have 300-400 apm while their macro is still terrible. This is how you become one of those people. Most of us can keep our money under 100/100 if we're attacked once every 15 minutes like you are if you're playing vs a computer. Your multitasking only improves if you're pressured constantly, not when there's no pressure. When you look at the bwchart of low apm players their graph spikes when there's a battle and they have to micro and build at the same time. Those moments are the only ones when multitasking matters. Rest of the time spamming can easily be replaced with awareness and constantly staring at the minimap. Anyways, sorry to be bashful but this really is a bad way to improve. i posted this when i was playing 15 games a day, I don't think I can word it any better | ||
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Kula
United States140 Posts
If you don't like it, like you said in your first post, its okay, but why are you continually saying you don't like it? On April 06 2008 11:17 zulu_nation8 wrote: Oh i'm sorry you're right, clicking fast is all you need to become a good bw player Just like shooting good doesnt make you good at basketball? | ||
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killanator
United States549 Posts
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Darkmole
United States900 Posts
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gg_hertzz
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
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killanator
United States549 Posts
on-topic: @darkmole: from what ive seen it works for some people and doesnt work for others, if you want to try be prepared for a lot of hard and boring training...i dont understand what types of problems you say your having | ||
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
Or vs 1 comp, practice builds, make some of your own. Imo playing vs people is still better though. Oh yeah no battlecruisers allowed, stick to the usual units you would do  | ||
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killanator
United States549 Posts
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
I guess you havent tried it but blizzard maps tend to have few minerals and sometimes only either a vespene geyser or a clump of badly placed minerals so you have to expo plenty of times, if you turtle too much you will starve to death and the comps are pretty agressive most of the times (they sometimes get buggy  ) so you have to take care of all your bases constantly.Also the main parts of the match up should be met, like mnm with tanks and vessels (and obviously dropships) vs pure zergs. Youre not practicing build orders in this thing. Ps. i havent tried it but it seems impossible when you are zerg. Medics are imbalanced. Besides, however you want to play (what you want to improve) is your choice, turtling and massing battlecruisers, instead of trying to give it your all with multiple drops of mnm and whatever, is similar to not spamming or keeping above 300 apm the whole game. | ||
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