EPTQuora: StarCraft skills that are useful in life - Page 2
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Swwww
Switzerland812 Posts
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Etheon
United States35 Posts
Also it helps develop "build orders" for basic tasks in life. Making them harder to forget. Lets not forget increase typing speed and multitasking. | ||
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Highwinds
Canada955 Posts
On April 27 2011 19:53 TurtlePerson2 wrote: My typing has become worse as I have played more games. You tend to only use three fingers on your left hand during Starcraft, but you should use five when typing. Obviously the space bar isn't included in Starcraft, but the fact that most people don't use their pinky while playing means that they don't learn proper typing habits. This was even worse in Brood War, where you had to hit buttons on the right side of the keyboard with your left hand. I dunno maybe im weird but I use 4 fingers and my thumb to play starcraft. Thumb for Spacebar, m, n , L, weird stuff. Just talking from myself and friends we became much faster typers than we used to from playing things like starcraft. And proper typing habits don't matter! I never understood why people cared about that stuff. It's like starcraft where you can have your standard play which is fine but you also have those unique styles of play but for me its a unique style of typing. | ||
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Teael
United States724 Posts
Unless you typed like a snail, i don't see how playing starcraft would increase your typing speed. If anything it'll just cause you to form bad finger-keyboard interaction habits The limiting factor in SC APM, for ME anyway, is not my finger speed, but my brain's inability to handle more Let's say you play SC2 at 200 apm 200 actions per minute in typing translates to..... A paltry ~40 words per minute? | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On April 27 2011 20:33 BlACKTrA wrote: just no, starcraft doesn t help in ReaL Life, no game does... These brain games for DS dont work as well... it is just publicity, many tests had shown that Of course it has real world value, just like any competitive activity does. Starcraft trains one's critical thinking and decision making skills and encourages the development of the thought processes required for multi-tasking. It teaches you to think on you're feet and it rewards and nurtures creativity in a controlled but competitively motivated setting. And, when you get to the upper levels of play it teaches you how to listen to and then rely on instinct in situations that require fast action. More importantly, it breeds dedication and fosters healthy determination. It also teaches you how to accept, deal with, and move on from failure by learning from your mistakes. Not to mention the social aspect of being a strong and contributing member of a community like ours. Finally, it allows you to practice some basic mechanical skills like typing and hand-eye coordination both of which are important skills for kids to develop at a young age right now. You get out of the game what you put in. If you put in the time and effort to become better at the game and a respected and contributing member of the community, your investment will be handsomely rewarded. When you win a game it is not the fault of luck or circumstance but only because you thought about and executed you decisions better than your opponent. It is your fault you became so good at something so hard. And likewise, when you lose, it is only because you made a mistake which you can then use as an opportunity to learn from. Check out Sean's (  Day(9)) 100th daily on his Blip.tv here for his take on what Starcraft has taught him: http://blip.tv/File/3486428 | ||
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Filosoraptor
United States21 Posts
It's been working great! Accident free for almost a week now. | ||
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aScle
Australia375 Posts
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Alver
United States177 Posts
i think its helped me with things like being able to handle loosing and not blame it on anything but myself. when you loose and blame imbalance your hurting your self in sc2 and irl, take accountability and realize theres more you can do. life is never fair either but work can get you in a good spot from a bad one. i dont think it helped my irl multitasking but it did help my deciding the order of priority to do things in. sc multi tasking is not so much doing 2-3 things at once, but doing things super fast so you have time to fit in more stuff. | ||
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Swwww
Switzerland812 Posts
On April 27 2011 21:05 aScle wrote: if you play zerg : dealing with overwhelming stress and depression lmao, zerg: sad. | ||
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viii
United States266 Posts
RL - When taking the bus you know theyre never on time. | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
Rofl... I think what you meant to say is stress, depression, disappointment, and sadness if you play Terran right now. I'll just assume "Zerg" was a typo. | ||
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FreshDumbledore
Austria57 Posts
Learning that its important to set yourself realistic goals, cause you won't reach your goal without having one. Maybe also endurance. Make sure to see daily 100. | ||
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Infernoob
France9 Posts
And Starcraft can improve your hability to concentrate and be focused in what you need to do. I alltough manage to stay focus on something while listening to music ^^ | ||
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Vipsanius
Netherlands708 Posts
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RoyalCheese
Czech Republic745 Posts
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Runaground
Moldova36 Posts
But. If you had a long road from a total noob to a relatively high skilled player, you obtain the knowledge of how become succesfull. This knowledge can be applied to almost every part of life. Now you will know, that whatever you do, you have to put a lot of time in this to become good, to overcome difficulties, you will know that success and skill imporvment will eventually come, you'll know the way how to train you increasing skill, you'll know the importance of sharing you experience and taking advices of the higher skilled "opponents". This will make your pesonality way more competitive, than it was in past. | ||
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Infernoob
France9 Posts
On April 27 2011 21:38 Runaground wrote: I doubt any of sc2 skills, such as macro and micro can really help you in reallife somewhere. But. If you had a long road from a total noob to a relatively high skilled player, you obtain the knowledge of how become succesfull. This knowledge can be applied to almost every part of life. Now you will know, that whatever you do, you have to put a lot of time in this to become good, to overcome difficulties, you will know that success and skill imporvment will eventually come, you'll know the way how to train you increasing skill, you'll know the importance of sharing you experience and taking advices of the higher skilled "opponents". This will make your pesonality way more competitive, than it was in past. Exactly ! One of the most important thing which could be learn with Starcraft is how to allways improving yourself and use right ways to do it in practicing a lot It can alltough help you to find a goal and stick to it. For exemple, I want to enter in Master League (that is true). I need to improve myself in practicing smartly. It's the same in life if I want to be an Astronaute =) | ||
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GxZ
United States375 Posts
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antilyon
Brazil2546 Posts
Remebered one more thing. SC2 teach you that like a patch that mess up you whole game, in real life, shit happens too. | ||
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Yurie
12076 Posts
Do you see top pros talking to the person standing next to them (about something not related to that game) as they play the game as best they can? Doing that is multitasking, playing the game and talking to somebody else at the same time. | ||
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