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XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
June 21 2011 04:24 GMT
#141
On June 21 2011 00:44 kollin wrote:
I was wondering if you have any baller ways to increase the speed of mouse clicking (or whatever you want to call it).


The single spam click exercise should solve that.
And then you know what happened all of a sudden?
yiodee
Profile Joined February 2011
United States137 Posts
June 21 2011 04:39 GMT
#142
Wow guys I am surprised by the sheer amount of hate that this awesome thread got. The main topic here is "execution speed". Let's say I am a terran with 4 rax two facts with tech lab and a starport with a techlab. I stand to produce 4 marines, 2 tanks and 2 medivacs per cycle of production. Oh and say I have two orbital commands, so add 2 scvs to that.

Assuming I have my raxes on 3, the factories on 4, starport on 5 and CCs on 6; I probably would have to hit 3aaaa4ss5dd6ss. Well in my personal case, this would take me about 3 seconds. (That is kinda slow if you are in the middle of a battle and need to make reinforcements quickly). So with that, we can say I have an execution speed of 3 seconds for that particular task. Most pros would do that in a second or maybe slightly less, while anything below a second and a half is really good.

So the point of the OP is to give your fingers the dexterity to go from those 3 seconds to the 1.5 ~1 second of execution time. It is not teaching you how to spam etc etc. You will benefit from this a lot, even if it related to the game theory(like builds, or macro).

Now shut up and get your fingers working out
XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
June 21 2011 05:13 GMT
#143
On June 21 2011 13:39 yiodee wrote:
Wow guys I am surprised by the sheer amount of hate that this awesome thread got. The main topic here is "execution speed". Let's say I am a terran with 4 rax two facts with tech lab and a starport with a techlab. I stand to produce 4 marines, 2 tanks and 2 medivacs per cycle of production. Oh and say I have two orbital commands, so add 2 scvs to that.

Assuming I have my raxes on 3, the factories on 4, starport on 5 and CCs on 6; I probably would have to hit 3aaaa4ss5dd6ss. Well in my personal case, this would take me about 3 seconds. (That is kinda slow if you are in the middle of a battle and need to make reinforcements quickly). So with that, we can say I have an execution speed of 3 seconds for that particular task. Most pros would do that in a second or maybe slightly less, while anything below a second and a half is really good.

So the point of the OP is to give your fingers the dexterity to go from those 3 seconds to the 1.5 ~1 second of execution time. It is not teaching you how to spam etc etc. You will benefit from this a lot, even if it related to the game theory(like builds, or macro).

Now shut up and get your fingers working out


I <3 you man. You nailed it dead on the money...

That was indeed the point of this thread, and I'm glad some people understand me :D
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
June 21 2011 05:16 GMT
#144
lol was expecting masturabation jokes
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10383 Posts
June 21 2011 05:18 GMT
#145
@evan

Rofl xD

Whew, good you didn't use your 10,000th post on this post :D

Congrats 10,1000 posts!
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Kazzoo
Profile Joined October 2010
France368 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-21 11:05:37
June 21 2011 11:04 GMT
#146
Great idea but I think a bit incomplete. This is juste fingers musculation and while important not the whole thing about hand speed. So i'll add my share of little exercices to do when you have a keyboard and nothing else to do.

One of th key problems of anyone that is not really good at SC is getting lost and the keyboard (aka missclick). So one thing you can work is placing your hand real quick.
Say I want to practice spawing drones. My hatchs are 5678.
So what i'll do is define precisely what finger I use on each and stick to it no matter what.
Now the fun part:
Hit 0 with the pinky then 5sd6sd7sd8sd. Hit 1 with the index 5sd6sd7sd8sd. This help you not be like "woops pressed 4 instead of 5 and made my scout die".

On the same basis you have switching between two "routines" like 5sd6sd7sd8sd 1a2a3a 5sd6sd7sd8sd 1a2a3a.

Also the really good 12131415141312 and all the variations 21232425242321 etc....
Really good for fingers independency. And play an instrument super great for dexterity :p

Also do this real slowly at first the goal is to do it well then do it fast. Cuz you'll never be able to do it in the other order.
FlowerBunny
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden187 Posts
June 21 2011 21:23 GMT
#147
Just have to say: I set my CC to 1 and my scouting worker to 3 XD Awesome write up man! I will go for some excersices and hopefully get faster. Would be totaly awsome if you uploaded a movie of you typing I am curious to see how extremely fast you are

Keep going man! <3
I was a Terran player. I am a Terran player. I will always be a Terran player
CCow
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany335 Posts
June 22 2011 02:40 GMT
#148
Don't get how you can receive that much hate for a thread that simply aims at helping other people.
I've always found that my mere handspeed was a rather resticting factor for my overall ingame-speed, so this OP was a real great read for me! Thank you so much for this, have been doing the drills all the time while reading through the pages, hope I can force myself (and remember^^) to do them on my way to univ; don't have anything to do on the bus so far.
XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
June 23 2011 18:19 GMT
#149
On June 22 2011 11:40 CCow wrote:
Don't get how you can receive that much hate for a thread that simply aims at helping other people.
I've always found that my mere handspeed was a rather resticting factor for my overall ingame-speed, so this OP was a real great read for me! Thank you so much for this, have been doing the drills all the time while reading through the pages, hope I can force myself (and remember^^) to do them on my way to univ; don't have anything to do on the bus so far.


Yeah, I don't get it either. Well, at least TL people are a lot nicer than other forums...

Gl and hopefully you too can do stuff intensely quick too!
And then you know what happened all of a sudden?
OmniscientSC2
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States713 Posts
July 13 2011 05:26 GMT
#150
I've been spamming that rolling technique for a few months now, but instead of 123213123123123123123123123123123123123123123123, I've been doing:

123-124-123-124-123-124-123-124-123-124-123-124-123-124-123-124

I feel that I have pretty good control of my 1 2 3 4 Hotkeys just by doing this. Spike up to like 700 APM from just doing this. I also am one of those players who has chosen to hotkey their backspace to one of their mouse buttons, so as far as practicing spamming one hotkey over and over
i.e: 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444, I spam it early game while spamming the backspace on my mouse so it jumps back and forth between my scouting drone and my base.

Apparently my pinky is weak though, because when I tried to do the asasasasaa while hovering over the keys, it started hurting after like 10 repetitions lol.
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GreyTemplar
Profile Joined September 2010
22 Posts
July 15 2011 21:16 GMT
#151
[B]On June 12 2011 16:22 XDJuicebox wrote:

Point of this thread: Hey! Here's something you can do when you're not at the PC to keep your fingers nimble!




I just want to note that not once did I see anything for being able to do this when NOT at my PC. >.>

Just saying.

But also I will be trying this out when I can. Cant do so at work as far too busy, plus keyboard at work is a crappy dell, Razer Black Widow @ home so key distances are not the same.

Thanks for the write up and I'll try it out over the course of next week and see how it helps. :D
Supert0fu
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States499 Posts
July 15 2011 21:45 GMT
#152
I am currently on a five hour drive thanks for the entertainment!!
whoopingchow
Profile Joined June 2011
United States293 Posts
July 15 2011 21:46 GMT
#153
Great guide. Definitely did stuff like this when I was practicing a cello piece. :D

Do you know of any website that can time you? I want to practice the macro algorithm thing, but all the WPM sites make you type our a preset paragraph or something.
edc
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States666 Posts
July 15 2011 22:02 GMT
#154
I'll try this and see how effective it is,
“There are two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.” - Clint Eastwood
XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
July 15 2011 22:04 GMT
#155
On July 16 2011 06:16 GreyTemplar wrote:
Show nested quote +
[B]On June 12 2011 16:22 XDJuicebox wrote:

Point of this thread: Hey! Here's something you can do when you're not at the PC to keep your fingers nimble!




I just want to note that not once did I see anything for being able to do this when NOT at my PC. >.>

Just saying.

But also I will be trying this out when I can. Cant do so at work as far too busy, plus keyboard at work is a crappy dell, Razer Black Widow @ home so key distances are not the same.

Thanks for the write up and I'll try it out over the course of next week and see how it helps. :D


Bring your Keyboard with you! :D
Lol that's what I do

Or you could just drum on the table with your fingers

On a different note, I got tendonitis in my wrists from a week of Guitar Hero. Definitely don't recommend that.
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