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Rigel of Cyrosea
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada66 Posts
July 04 2010 15:38 GMT
#21
I find spamming a lot gets me in the habit of playing more quickly. Forcing yourself to play faster will make you a worse player while you're doing it, but you may find it helps you speed up your normal game once you stop doing it.

When I was getting into BW I had around 120 apm. I spent a week where I forced myself to play at 200 apm through the whole game. Obviously this resulted in a lot of spam, and I played terribly for that week. But afterwards, when I let myself go back to normal, I found I was averaging at 150-160 apm naturally, without spamming. Pretty big increase for one week of practice.
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
July 04 2010 15:38 GMT
#22
unless i get supply locked, i dont really spam. I do right click a bazillion times to move a unit, and at the beginning, i always admire the secnery, because of automine
shammythefox
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom286 Posts
July 04 2010 15:39 GMT
#23
spam 1,2 (nexus, probe) and later 1,5 (nexus, warpgates)
Batch
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden692 Posts
July 04 2010 15:47 GMT
#24
Wouldn't it be more prestigious to be able to win matches with as low APM as possible? I personally would be more impressed by a person with 20 APM beating a recognized good player as opposed if someone with with 200 APM would do the same.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
July 04 2010 15:50 GMT
#25
I dont spam but to like 90 early game and stay in the 60's the rest of the game..
i just hit 123 or something usually, or actually move my probes to minerals

(1900 plat before reset)
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
AT_Tack
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany435 Posts
July 04 2010 15:53 GMT
#26
1-2 units (2 scout)
3,4,5 hatches.

as i spam through my hatches i always check available drones and the inject larvae and tech bars and reposition rally points... so that hardly feels like wasted apm. double tap 2 to check my scouting ovie and repeat!
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
July 04 2010 15:54 GMT
#27
4141414141414 spam rally

1 being my scout 4 being main

box spamming workers obv

past early game i dont spam cuz im actually trying to play
tfmdjeff
Profile Joined June 2010
United States170 Posts
July 04 2010 15:55 GMT
#28
i like to try to box each of my drones individually as fast as I can in the beginning of the game. It's not so much for raising my APM, but it just keeps me entertained and I feel like such a boss if I do it well.
Yuka
Profile Joined June 2010
United States133 Posts
July 04 2010 16:04 GMT
#29
I just average about 45 APM throughout an entire game and don't stress it.
Race? No, I'm equally bad with all of them.
Pebble
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany326 Posts
July 04 2010 16:04 GMT
#30
1 overlord
2 scouting drone
4 hatch

And I try to bend my fingers to stretch them a little while spamming buttons 1,2+4. And I also like to click on the minerals as fast as I can to practice a little on my accuracy.
3:50 PM jaedung: scouting is useless in sc2
farseer_dk
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada71 Posts
July 04 2010 16:08 GMT
#31
I do not do this... at all... is that bad?
mao
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
July 04 2010 16:28 GMT
#32
On July 05 2010 01:08 farseer_dk wrote:
I do not do this... at all... is that bad?


no...it's just a preference.

You should already know, APM does not equal skill

Personally, i believe it's a trend...but all trends have their outliers.
(╯`Д´)╯︵ ┻━┻ High Five! _o /\ o_
Seam
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1093 Posts
July 04 2010 16:32 GMT
#33
When I move a unit I tend to click the spot a bajillion times.
I only needed one probe to take down idra. I had to upgrade to a zealot for strelok. - Liquid`Tyler
Gedrah
Profile Joined February 2010
465 Posts
July 04 2010 16:38 GMT
#34
I try to smoke between 7 and 8 or 8 and 9, or after paying for 10 if I'm zerg.
What is a dickfour?
QueueQueue
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada1000 Posts
July 04 2010 16:43 GMT
#35
Hotkey cc to 2, scv to 1 and hotkey spam along with boxing my scvs at the start. Usually peak at around 520-550 apm >.< lol
Turbo.Tactics
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany675 Posts
July 04 2010 16:44 GMT
#36
I try to smoke between 7 and 8 or 8 and 9, or after paying for 10 if I'm zerg.


I tried the same during a 6 pool.... worked out great ^^
Zerg - because Browders sons hate 'em
SantaClaws
Profile Joined July 2010
Denmark11 Posts
July 04 2010 16:46 GMT
#37
I mineral micor, which does take most of my apm. After that I just box select and spam "return cargo". Also when I build workers, I don't just spam the hotkey, I also spam with the mouse button on the icon to get it started as soon as humanly possible :p
junemermaid
Profile Joined September 2006
United States981 Posts
July 04 2010 16:47 GMT
#38
On July 05 2010 00:28 green.at wrote:
i often waste apm on drinking water and sometimes miss to build the 2nd worker :D


come on man you gotta time that shit...
the UMP says YER OUT
micropede3
Profile Joined July 2010
United States5 Posts
July 04 2010 16:53 GMT
#39
what is my method?

well, sir, I like to pretend that my mouse and keyboard are your mom, and I have to touch them as much as possible.

does that answer your fucking question?
fuck you teamliquid
n3mo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States298 Posts
July 04 2010 17:06 GMT
#40
i go play piano haha =D
although in game, i cycle between 1 2 5 (scout, CC, rax) in the early game.
My hatred for [banelings] is way greater than my compassion
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