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[G] How to Dramatically Improve Hand Speed - Page 6
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KLooLESS
United States11 Posts
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spbelky
United States623 Posts
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philipov
United States81 Posts
On June 16 2011 06:21 XDJuicebox wrote: That was the idea of the thread, "Hey here's something you can do while you're not at the PC to keep your fingers nimble" was exactly it. I guess I'm just not good at wording :/ Don't blame yourself. You couldn't have worded it any better. It's some people that are bad at comprehension and just turn every discussion into bashing the pet peeve that sounds most similar to some word you used. As a matter of fact, I've been using the method you outline myself for a while now to train my left hand to attempt to become more ambidextrous. Really love this post because it puts down a good template for what I've already been doing. Only thing is, I usually coordinate my tapping exercises to the rhythm of very high BPM music, and I also focus on the wrist and upper forearm (by tapping between the palm and thumb). Note that my stated goal here is not to improve APM, but to train the nerves in my hand to become ambidextrous. Increased -effective- APM is simply a side effect of having better coordination and keyboard control. I've been noticing that when I type as fast as I possibly can, I end up shuffling letters around and I think this is caused by my right hand being much faster than my left and going out of sync as they race to put down the keys assigned the them. Imagine how hard it would be to run a race if one of your legs was significantly atrophied. EDIT: Refactored paragraph structure. | ||
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philipov
United States81 Posts
In the worst case, you could injury yourself because the muscle groups you're trying to train depend on muscle groups you haven't trained and are too weak to handle the stress. | ||
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iChau
United States1210 Posts
On June 15 2011 22:03 ChickenLips wrote: I agree with this post so much. There's thousands of Koreans whose FULL TIME JOB it is to become better at the game. What do they do? Do they any stupid APM / hand speed exercises? No! They friggin play the game until it is ingrained into their brains, until they instinctively know what to do next. I could explain it but the quote above already does that perfectly well. Are we Korean pros? Do we have that extra edge by being Korean? Is it weird in the US to play Starcraft 2 constantly at a young age? On June 16 2011 07:26 philipov wrote: Don't blame yourself. You couldn't have worded it any better. It's some people that are bad at comprehension and just turn every discussion into bashing the pet peeve that sounds most similar to some word you used. As a matter of fact, I've been using the method you outline myself for a while now to train my left hand to attempt to become more ambidextrous. Really love this post because it puts down a good template for what I've already been doing. Only thing is, I usually coordinate my tapping exercises to the rhythm of very high BPM music, and I also focus on the wrist and upper forearm (by tapping between the palm and thumb). Note that my stated goal here is not to improve APM, but to train the nerves in my hand to become ambidextrous. Increased -effective- APM is simply a side effect of having better coordination and keyboard control. I've been noticing that when I type as fast as I possibly can, I end up shuffling letters around and I think this is caused by my right hand being much faster than my left and going out of sync as they race to put down the keys assigned the them. Imagine how hard it would be to run a race if one of your legs was significantly atrophied. EDIT: Refactored paragraph structure. I agree with the 1st paragraph. Also, I type faster with my right hand, but I can't remember the letters on that side of the keyboard. btw I'm trying this out and so far I'm liking it. I have found a lot of problems with my left hand so far.. | ||
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
On June 16 2011 07:26 philipov wrote: Don't blame yourself. You couldn't have worded it any better. It's some people that are bad at comprehension and just turn every discussion into bashing the pet peeve that sounds most similar to some word you used. As a matter of fact, I've been using the method you outline myself for a while now to train my left hand to attempt to become more ambidextrous. Really love this post because it puts down a good template for what I've already been doing. Only thing is, I usually coordinate my tapping exercises to the rhythm of very high BPM music, and I also focus on the wrist and upper forearm (by tapping between the palm and thumb). Note that my stated goal here is not to improve APM, but to train the nerves in my hand to become ambidextrous. Increased -effective- APM is simply a side effect of having better coordination and keyboard control. I've been noticing that when I type as fast as I possibly can, I end up shuffling letters around and I think this is caused by my right hand being much faster than my left and going out of sync as they race to put down the keys assigned the them. Imagine how hard it would be to run a race if one of your legs was significantly atrophied. EDIT: Refactored paragraph structure. I forced myself to become ambidextrous a few years ago. I think that might be another reason...my right hand (I'm a lefty, so yeah) is just as powerful as my left,I can write decently on it. When I'm intensely writing an essay, if my left arm burns out, I toss the pencil into the other hand and use that lol. It's pretty great, I must say. Except my teacher looks at the paper, and like half of it is really neat and half of it is like 5th grade writing lol | ||
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ixi.genocide
United States981 Posts
On June 16 2011 15:09 XDJuicebox wrote: I forced myself to become ambidextrous a few years ago. I think that might be another reason...my right hand (I'm a lefty, so yeah) is just as powerful as my left,I can write decently on it. When I'm intensely writing an essay, if my left arm burns out, I toss the pencil into the other hand and use that lol. It's pretty great, I must say. Except my teacher looks at the paper, and like half of it is really neat and half of it is like 5th grade writing lol Lol, I am also a left-handed and worked to become ambidextrous and sadly enough... My writing with my left hand looks like a 5th graders  I guess I have been using the computer for so long that I never really needed to learn how to write things for other people. Back on topic- I think that the OP's advice is good and perfectly fine but tbh... Just actively working on your dexterity in any way will show improvements. Hopefully this will help people that would like an outline of steps outside of the actual computer. One thing that I am interested in getting better at is my mouse control. I typically find that I have good mouse control but as always I want to improve. Does anyone know of some good games or programs that help you with your mouse control? Obviously playing sc will do that but still... I guess a possible answer that I would be looking for is custom games in sc (but mainly looking for flash games or w/e to work on mouse movement). | ||
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RRjr
Germany40 Posts
On June 13 2011 02:57 Geniuszerg wrote: personally i think the best way to improve hand speed is the play the game.. theres no point having high apm if you suck, harsh, but kinda the truth No. The guy mentioned like 6 gazillion times that this is not about APM per se. It's about improving the speed of your hands. If you want to become faster with your fingers you have to apply some training method. Just playing the game doesn't cut it. If you wanna become really fast, especially with your ring and pinky, it's going to take a lot of training. If you play any sort of instrument you'll know that it takes lifelong practice. Your hands have to stay in training pretty much constantly. That said: Get a Powerball! Only training your fingers isn't enough. You have to train the muscles that support and lead your fingers. If you really examine your movements, you'll see that most of them are actually driven by the lower muscles in your forearm. A powerball trains those muscles directly. Make them stronger and your fingers will become faster. Powerballs are also great at preventing RSI. And you can show them to chicks and ask them to look at your shiny powerballs... In the worst case, you could injury yourself because the muscle groups you're trying to train depend on muscle groups you haven't trained and are too weak to handle the stress. Yeah but that absolutely worst case. You'd have to do some sick shit to really injure yourself. If you do drills responsibly, a little pain is actually normal. This level of excercise makes your muscles grow. They gradually adjust and grow to get rid of that pain. But yeah, you gotta know the limits and they're really easy to gauge: If it hurts a little that's okay. If it hurst more than a little you're doing it wrong. If you feel pain as in "ouch!" you need to stop what you're doing immediately. When doing finger drills and exercises I wouldn't recommend going beyond the hour. I found it' just not useful to do more. And again: Get a Powerball. It's great especially when you've been playing for longer periods. Just fire it up for a minute or two and you'll notice your entire arm feels much better. RSI is a bitch. You wanna do what you can to avoid it. | ||
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Mackem
United Kingdom470 Posts
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RRjr
Germany40 Posts
On June 16 2011 22:22 Mackem wrote: Only problem I have is I've become used to typing with mainly my index and middle fingers on each hand, occasionally using my ring fingers, but my little fingers and ring fingers just feel so weak and this means that I cannot efficiently touch type or play SC2 as well as I could. How can I get used to using all 8 fingers when typing/playing? Any links/videos/techniques would be really helpful. Common problem. Just do some of the drills presented in the OP as regularly as you can and get comfortable with the fact that if you really want to improve dexterity on your ring & pinky it takes time. Also, as I said, get a Powerball or some other device to train your forearm. This is important. If you don't believe me just hover your left hand over your keyboard and tap a key with your pinky for just a few minutes. You'll notice the stress in the inner muscles of your forearm quickly, because those muscles are most active when you tap your pinky. Strengthening them will allow you to apply much more force when tapping your pinky, giving you that much mroe control and speed. | ||
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Mackem
United Kingdom470 Posts
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Strykerz
United States85 Posts
It's all in the tips! ^-^ | ||
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Ineffability~
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KyouKyou
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I'd try some of the exercises in the op but I already have wrist pain from tennis. Computer games are relaxing for me and I intend to keep it that way. =] | ||
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Glockateer
United States254 Posts
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philipov
United States81 Posts
On June 17 2011 03:50 Glockateer wrote: The only difference I've noticed so far is my ring and pinky fingers improving. Those being your weakest fingers, I think it's natural that they would be the ones that showed the greatest degree of improvement and that would make it hard to notice the smaller amount of improvement in your already more developed fingers. | ||
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.Mthex-
United States168 Posts
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
On June 17 2011 03:50 Glockateer wrote: The only difference I've noticed so far is my ring and pinky fingers improving. Yeah, sounds about right. | ||
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Glockateer
United States254 Posts
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SoniStreet
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