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Zerg player.
Click hatch, press S D, select workers sent to one patch. Send overlord away hotkey to 1 and 0. Select hatchery hotkey it to 4 and 5 and set rally points. Spam for drones and give each egg a seperate rally point. When you get 9 supply send the 9th drone to scout, hotkey as 3. Make ovie and rally it somewhere ( you can rally eggs and even hotkey them before they hatch ) and hotkey it as 0 ( 0 is my overlord hotkey ). 345 spam and double tapping 3 or 5 to switch views from scouting drone to hatchery. Keeping a close look on the minimap and minerals/supply.
Yes, I do spam. It keeps my thinking caps on and makes me play faster. Whereas without spamming in the early game I notably get worse at making quick decisions.
When I play protoss or terran I get bored in the early game because there isn't enough to do >.> . Just send your scv/probe to mine and hotkey command center/nexus.
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Clicking my main building and spamming R + Click near a mineral patch >_<
In SC2 i spam Y + Click on the vacant minerals 1 by 1.
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I hot key an ovie, my hatch, and a drone. I spam hard but I focus even harder on what my game plan is.
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I enjoy spamming e as a protoss player with my Nexus selected and hearing "not enough minerals." It serves a purpose in the early game so that my probes start building as soon as possible.
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When Beta was still up I tried spamming hard to see how high APM goes. With Faster it went somewhere between 1300-1500, with the slowest speed 3200. I used eight fingers.
It's funny to see some replays where an opponent has 300 APM in the beginning and ends with 50 
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Zerg Here and i just Spam 1sd
1 Being Hatchery
S Being Select Larvae
D for Make drone.
0 hotkey for my scouting overlord (which usually later becomes my detector for the same hotkey)
1sd just over and over and over and over and over throughout the whole game, lol.
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After 5 mins it's not hard to do alot of stuff. Until then I cycle through everything.
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my starting hot keys are: 1-scouting probe, 4-building probe, and 5-nexus
my apm spam usually looks like this in the beginning:
145(box select)145(box select)145eeeeeeeeee11,55,145(box select)
i don't spam much later in the game except for right-clicks
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i like to rally my nexus to different mineral patches so i can work on my mouse accuracy when i'm not doing anything.
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I just jam whatever I'm trying to do, so a lot of pushing S and right clicking the hell out of mineral patches for the first minute or so.
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usually as a toss player, I like moving my army around always. In SC:BW, it used to be "3a4a5a6a to this side of the map then 3a4a5a6a back to the other side" but since there are now infinite control groups, it just became "3a to this side of the map, then 3a back" =(
so now i just do whatever i can to keep my apm up =\
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Theres a reason the Koreans spam keys there not doing it for their APM. Good players do tons of early apm as a warm up and to keep the intensity going and to transition into the end game. Its actully quite horrendus to watch some of my friends play in the early game. Theyll build a worker, look at a txt message and keep drinking their beer. Then at a random time they decide oh hey its time to get micro goin and they just never can matcht he same precision, control, and agility that I have. Which is funny at the same time because they make fun of me for my early game spamming. But then you compare leagues and win rates and yea you get the picture.
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I'll box select my workers in the beginning of the game. The nice thing about it is that it has a challenge: if you do it fast enough the SCVs will start saying their 'funny' lines.
I used to not be able to do it all the time, but by the end of the beta I could always get 3 - 4 funny quotes in. Clearly my skill is improving :D
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On July 05 2010 00:47 Batch wrote: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.
I agree with you there, but I think 20 APM would be too low to keep up on everything. I would love to watch a replay where a good player with really high APM just gets beat by someone with a really low APM. I know when beta went down my APM at the end of most games was right around 30, as a gold level player. I didn't spam anything at all. I think now, after working with the BO Testers, and AI's, my APM is probably around 40. I think it's possible to do everything needed in the game with an APM of about 60 without any spamming.
My take on APM is similar to how Day[9] described it.. that APM, at least at low levels is how much stuff you are remembering to do.
Build Wokers
Chrono/Spawn Larvae/Mule/Scan
Build Units
Build Buildings
Scout
Micro units
I think you can keep up on all those things with about 60 APM. Not saying there is anything wrong with a little spamming to get your fingers warmed up, or to get psyched up for the match. But I think it would be really cool to just see someone with a very efficient APM, who can keep up on everything without mega spam APM.
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On July 05 2010 02:42 XXXSmOke wrote:
Theres a reason the Koreans spam keys there not doing it for their APM. Good players do tons of early apm as a warm up and to keep the intensity going and to transition into the end game. Its actully quite horrendus to watch some of my friends play in the early game. Theyll build a worker, look at a txt message and keep drinking their beer. Then at a random time they decide oh hey its time to get micro goin and they just never can matcht he same precision, control, and agility that I have. Which is funny at the same time because they make fun of me for my early game spamming. But then you compare leagues and win rates and yea you get the picture.
It also improves focus alot next to the APM part. It's easier starting high and ennding high then to start low and end high.
I always spam the hotkey for my cc and after that play around with my scv's like boxing around them etc.
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In sc1 My spam was click on each mineral in a series extremely fast. The feedback sound you got from clicking on things in sc1 was good, cause you'll know you clicked on it, even if you weren't looking there, or at the screen, or are a blind player. SC2 is missing that, and hope that stuff is added on retail.
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On July 05 2010 00:22 Liquid`TLO wrote:
I click through all of my starting scvs + cc as fast as I can.
This. I have my CC hotkeyed as 1, then I go up and down my mineral line clicking an SCV, 1, next SCV, 1, next SCV, 1, etc and repeat. Helps warm up APM plus it's just practice for my accuracy. It's harder than you might think to not misclick when you do it really fast.
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I click more than 1000000000000000000 times when i move a unit , but really i think its more important to keep up your macro. I spam just so I can stay ahead of myself..sometime i just sit and stare at my workers...5 seconds later realizing that should be upgrading. So spamming actually helps me focus o3o
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I've got the Nexus hotkeyed to 5, hotkey a worker to 1.
1, 5, box. 1, 5, box.
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Box selecting all the probes, then moving the mouse on the Nexus(still with the probes targeted) , 3-5 clicks on the Nexus and then all this over and over again... This doesn't give me super-duper APM , but i can feel the control of my mouse and micro.
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