Most of us have wierd little APM guilty pleasures where we like to spam to keep our APM up and keep our mouse control up throughout the course of a game... what is your favorite method...

e.soul[gm]

Sierra Leone254 Posts

July 04 2010 14:49 GMT

1234 hotkey spam. right click x10000000 to move a unit 2 inches on the screen

ionlyplayPROtoss

Canada573 Posts

July 04 2010 14:51 GMT

BOX select all workers as fast as i can early on and do it over and over again until i get a unit out.

Mentos

United Kingdom203 Posts

July 04 2010 14:52 GMT

if you spam anything past early game intentionally just to keep your apm up, you're gimping yourself.
trust me it wont matter how much apm shows up in the replay when you lose due to lack of proper multitask or control, cause you're busy cycling through hotkeys without a clue.

Nyx

Rwanda460 Posts

July 04 2010 14:54 GMT

I don't mean to be rude, but I think spamming is bizzare.

So you're watching somebodies steam, the game is loading and he's talking about the map, then he gets into the game and spams like so crazy stops talking, putting all his concentration into spamming. (I'm talking about the boxing workers spam)

But yeah, I do this:

1234 hotkey spam. right click x10000000 to move a unit 2 inches on the screen

I feel like it gets my middle finger on my right hand and my hotkey fingers warmed up.

SageFantasma

United States383 Posts

July 04 2010 14:59 GMT

Due to the original response lag when the beta first came out, I started with the habit of spamming right clicks to move units, for some reason I felt like it moved them faster. That and I do the box select at the start with workers. Box select, press hotkey for Nexus/CC/Hatch, box select, press hotkey, and repeat. For no reason at all.

frequency

Australia1901 Posts

July 04 2010 15:03 GMT

On July 04 2010 23:49 e.soul[gm] wrote:
1234 hotkey spam. right click x10000000 to move a unit 2 inches on the screen

In WC3 I spam 467 to switch between rax/main/altar, and I do the same in SC2 (and Brood War) spamming 236 for depot(yes I hotkey my depot)/scout scv/main :D

captainwaffles

United States1050 Posts

July 04 2010 15:04 GMT

1-Scouting scv
2-Building scv
3-W/e
4-rax
5-OC

While boxing random stuff, usually my workers.

ThreeSixDrew

Canada183 Posts

July 04 2010 15:16 GMT

I personally find that early APM spamming helps me move faster later on in the game. If i'm crusing at say 200 APM in the first few minutes, I usually can maintain 100+ in the part of the game where things start to matter.

If i'm only spamming at 50 APM in the first few minutes, I find that my APM later in the game is not as substantial as it needs to be. Perhaps 80-99ish.

I'm a zerg player so my early useless spam basically involves cycling through hotkeyed hatch, scouting drone, scouting overlord. 1/2/6 respectively.

HuHEN

United Kingdom514 Posts

July 04 2010 15:16 GMT

#10

I have like crazy bass player fingers, so for some reason I can alternate my pointer and middle finger insanely fast, I get up to 600 apm fairly easily by doing this on the right mouse button, funny stuff, I would never do it past the first minute or so, its just a hindrance at that point.

Liquid`TLO

Germany767 Posts

July 04 2010 15:22 GMT

#11

I click through all of my starting scvs + cc as fast as I can.

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

July 04 2010 15:22 GMT

#12

at the start of the game 1-5-drag select workers-1-5-drag select workers.....
i also sometimes individually select every mineral patch in between spamming.

during the game if i have nothing in particular to do i usually 1-2-3/1-2/3 etc or 4-5-6-7-8-9-0 selecting buildings to see which are close to finishing a cycle etc etc.

thOr6136

Slovenia1775 Posts

July 04 2010 15:22 GMT

#13

1 - scout (overlord)
2 - hatch
3 - hatch
4 - hatch

I constatnly spam 1234, box select workers (a lot of time), click up and down the minerals, go to overlord spam spam spam, back to base and repeat that all the time

Count9

China10928 Posts

July 04 2010 15:23 GMT

#14

click minerals really really fast and forget to move my scout manually instead of queue cause practicality is overrated.

Marou

Germany1371 Posts

July 04 2010 15:26 GMT

#15

On July 05 2010 00:22 Liquid`TLO wrote:
I click through all of my starting scvs + cc as fast as I can.

Actually that's a nice thing, i'll copy this since i do need to improve my mouse precision. Doing this feels much better than mineral swapping since you have to hit units that moves

EliteAzn

United States661 Posts

July 04 2010 15:27 GMT

#16

On July 04 2010 23:51 ionlyplayPROtoss wrote:
BOX select all workers as fast as i can early on and do it over and over again until i get a unit out.

This is the only spam I do, and this happens only in the beginning of the game, where I don't have 2 hatches up. Once that 2nd one is up, i'll be occupied enough to keep my apm up...

There is no point for constant spam in mid-late game...however, spamming does somehow manage to somewhat warm you up a little.....just a little.

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

July 04 2010 15:28 GMT

#17

I thought this thread was going to be about how you use your 3x APM to abuse noobs by microing and macroing better than them at the same time. Afterwards feel good about yourself because of your carry-over BW skills

green.at

Austria1459 Posts

July 04 2010 15:28 GMT

#18

i often waste apm on drinking water and sometimes miss to build the 2nd worker :D

StarStruck

25339 Posts

July 04 2010 15:30 GMT

#19

Pro's do it for one of several reasons. I do it to keep my hands warm and ease myself into the game.

Deathstar

9150 Posts

July 04 2010 15:32 GMT

#20

I just spam between 1,2,3,4,5. It's disorientating, but it works. But really, all that matters is winning. Just cause you have 200-300 apm doesn't mean you're pro level.