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Increasing your APM - Page 3
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ChimpyNuts
United Kingdom50 Posts
That game sounds awsome I am gonna try it! | ||
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PineappleSage
Canada109 Posts
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
On April 29 2010 06:58 Joey.rumz wrote: I am a very nervous player, sometimes I stream with a hundred or so, sometimes less people, than play in craft cup weekly eu and us, the zotac beginning pregrid rounds, and my APM will jump up and down. I think a real measurement is you playing comfortably, knowing you are under control, and really taking a lease of your effective APM. As your surrounding awareness goes up, as well as your ability to adapt, you APM will sky rocket as you grow. Don't value it so high that you mass click here and there. When you start learning to do things like defend a push and medivac drop at the same time, and see that you should be paying more attention in multiple places, maybe it's time to practice it and then you will see your APM plays a much bigger part into your skill level. For the most part, it doesn't. Just hang back, learn the game, and enjoy the ride. I myself am a pretty nervous player. APM can mean how well one can multitask, but if you're comfortable and you don't panic when you're playing, you should be doing fine. Precision is more important, especially since SC2 doesn't require such high APM compared to its original self. If you want to bring it higher, I think most people just spam a bunch of commands to keep their APM high. They probably do it so they can maintain a speed and be ready for when they actually do need to have high APM. You could try that maybe? | ||
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Hyperion2010
United States122 Posts
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Perfect Balance
Norway131 Posts
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RumZ
United States956 Posts
On April 29 2010 07:26 Zhou wrote: I myself am a pretty nervous player. APM can mean how well one can multitask, but if you're comfortable and you don't panic when you're playing, you should be doing fine. Precision is more important, especially since SC2 doesn't require such high APM compared to its original self. If you want to bring it higher, I think most people just spam a bunch of commands to keep their APM high. They probably do it so they can maintain a speed and be ready for when they actually do need to have high APM. You could try that maybe? Actually I also agree warming up hands in this case has been pretty instrumental and plus it seems to, at least personally, heighten awareness heading into a match. Has the OP messed around with lassoing workings and pressing c for return cargo as often as he can while still being able to properly build his base? Another big reason high apm and awareness with hotkeys and such is early game scouting. I find that if you just make a bunch of waypoints for your scout it sometimes takes a split second for him to turn here and there, and the best way is to manually build your base and manually move your scouting worker at the same time. This will do 2 great things: 1) Prepare your hands for fast movement going into a battle where you will begin to feel comfortable and maintaining that highly valued APM number at a solid amount. 2) It teaches you to keep your scout alive as long as you can to gather as much data as possible about your opponent going into the mid to late portion of the early game stage, which can be extremely informational on how you plan to adapt to your opponents perceived strategy. Try it against the 'Very Easy' computer if you are unsure of your capabilities, and take it to Ladder when you're comfortable. It's something (and probably the only thing) that can be practiced against that terrible AI. | ||
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Izslove
Australia69 Posts
Pre-queuing early isnt always a bad thing I usually queue my next set of units @~ 75%-80% completion Normally just focusing on this I've been getting closer my aim of 110+ apm over 10+mins matches though when I spam hard at the start and keep doing the above constantly Ive been hitting the 150 mark in shorter games. | ||
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ChimpyNuts
United Kingdom50 Posts
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ilnp
Iceland1330 Posts
On April 29 2010 07:23 Treliant wrote: It sounds to me like your problem is not really Apm so much as your ability to divide attention between 10 different things  ie. the multitasking. That will just come with practice and familiarity I don't think there is any way to quickly learn effective multitasking, you just have to work at it. Whenever i have a couple of spare moment I also play this webbrowser based game:http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask It's incredibly simple but I've found it has worked wonders for teaching me to split my attention and keep track of at least 4 things running simultaneously. I'm only a copper lvl player but noticed a significant jump in my win rates after i started playing it in my spare time. thanks, i was looking for a multitask minigame that i liked. this one is tough. OP: try to pick something more specific than "APM" and work on it by simplifying the rest of your game and focusing on one thing. you'll never get better if you try to get better at everything all the time. Do you want to remember to build stuff while you're harassing or even attacking? Want to remember to keep building scvs no matter what? Etc. Pick one specific attribute and get better at it. | ||
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Gryffes
United Kingdom763 Posts
Instead of thinking "what do I do now" make a list/group in your head that you keep a track off, so for zerg I'm keeping track of my hatcheries ( Hatch 1/hatch2/hatch3 - I have to spawn larva on them ) as well as keeping a rough gameplan in my head as to what I'm trying to accomplish and what I need to do that instead of just looking at my base/the map and thinking "now what?". The trick for me was keeping track of my component pieces ( hatches/queens/ unit type 1/unit type 2 etc / scouting unit 1/ etc ) as well as ALWAYS having a plan for the next few minutes of the game. Helped tremendously to go from a 60 apm peak to 200+ peak. as well as taking my average up quite a lot as well. | ||
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Gryffes
United Kingdom763 Posts
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Libtech
Canada9 Posts
That said, once you get used to your race(s) your APM will naturally increase as your get better and games become more intense. | ||
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Two_DoWn
United States13684 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=121908 Just started playing it, and it works wonders for mini map recognition and multi task. | ||
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StayFrosty
Canada743 Posts
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OPSavioR
Sweden1465 Posts
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ChimpyNuts
United Kingdom50 Posts
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St0rmRush
Brazil448 Posts
you could AIM for a X APM but i think you only end up spaming HK and clicks | ||
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Clow
Brazil880 Posts
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Speake
United States494 Posts
I have about 130 apm as terran and am hanging around the top of platinum on the EU servers, and there is definitely MUCH more i could be doing | ||
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Navi
5286 Posts
i have like 300 in sc, but like 120 in hon :S | ||
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