On May 30 2006 23:11 skyglow1 wrote:
You captilizae your "must" as if it is defininte and that it is the same for everyone. This is clearly not true. There are many people like me who were surprised to find their apm went up without them even knowing. This was caused by the increasingly improving play which demanded for higher apm. There are alot of cases where your apm will just naturally go up. Don't just dismiss it by saying that everyone "MUST" increase apm by focusing on it only.

I still beleive my statement is correct, but let me clarify a bit.

I'm talking about cases where someone w/ 180-200~ APM is trying to increase up to 300~ APM. I literally don't know of any good 300 APM player who slowly got there. Virtually any quick player I know peaked it up in a small period of time and then figure out how to make it useful.

I agree that it will naturally increase, but I feel as though the highest APM one can reach naturally is 180-200. Past that requires lots of practice. So, i'm not trying to say that its impossible to build APM naturally, that's definitely true. However, its only true up to a certain point. To get past the 200 range, i feel one MUST focus on APM and practice quick hand speed.

krzych113

United Kingdom547 Posts

May 31 2006 01:26 GMT

#104

APM is just A(too many action) per minute

Boxer[NaMe]

26 Posts

May 31 2006 06:39 GMT

#105

Just play, trust me. I went from 90-120 APM then to 180-240 APM now

Phlash

United States43 Posts

May 31 2006 15:59 GMT

#106

Yeah my APM is pretty much locked at 220+ now (I do have games where I'm hitting 250 - 280, but I've only hit 300+ once in a real game). Its all about the hotkeys baby.

Scrolling around the map is going to make your actions drop, if you can use the hotkeys to just to what you want to use at the current time, just click it twice and jump to it! And if you need to go to a spot, quickly go to the minimap and click on wherever. Another thing is that you should max out your mouse speed and get used to it. Once you do you'll be able to select/move/attack things faster. It will hurt your accuracy for a bit but once that catches up you'll be fine.

Also, learn how to click faster. Instead of just clicking fast to increase your APM, however, do it to more precisely have your units go to a spot. Make your actions useful while your increasing them. And never lose track of whats happening in the game. Work your strategy but never forget to adapt to what your opponent is doing.

kevisyum

Israel105 Posts

May 31 2006 19:30 GMT

#107

Hey what do you guys think about this excercize- To prace playing the computer ONLY using your mouse- and once you feel you do allmost as well as you do in normal games your mouse apm should be awesome >_<

Schrecken

United States1 Post

April 16 2008 07:16 GMT

#108

On May 24 2006 13:44 Hot_Bid wrote:

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cracker no have good apm, only asians

ROFL

paper

13196 Posts

April 16 2008 07:21 GMT

#109

um

happy birthday?

Lurgee

Australia252 Posts

April 16 2008 07:23 GMT

#110

Practicing against a computer while trying to keep minerals below 300 at all times and APM above 300 at all times is supposed to help. These goals are very difficult to reach though. I have found that simply focusing on APM in games has slowly increased my APM from 50 to around 140 on average.

Aux1

United States780 Posts

April 16 2008 07:35 GMT

#111

On April 16 2008 16:16 Schrecken wrote:

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ROFL

i suggest you read the strategy forum guidelines, old threads should not be bumped unless you have something new to contribute, or you have a similar question
http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=60175

welcome to tl.net

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

April 16 2008 12:32 GMT

#112

nice 2 new posters lol
yeah just read Aux1's link
welcome~

parkin

1080 Posts

April 16 2008 14:51 GMT

#113

put your hands in the microwave for 10 minutes to warm them and drink 5+ cups of coffee before every game.

KwarK

United States42778 Posts

April 16 2008 15:03 GMT

#114

On April 16 2008 23:51 parkin wrote:
put your hands in the microwave for 10 minutes to warm them and drink 5+ cups of coffee before every game.

Too much caffeine doesn't help. You end up going "What if he does a muta switch? Can I defend vs that? Oh God he's going to go muta.. Shit... Cannon, cannon, cannon. Wait, it's PvP. He can't go muta..... Muta?!? Shit! I'm vulnerable vs muta".
I exaggerate slightly but it does mess with your decision making.