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b0red111
United States48 Posts
What can I do to break past this plateau? I know my game starts to fall off a bit once I have to start controlling my 3rd and 4th expoes. What is the answer to my problem? Is it to mass game? Or is there some UMS map, much like the muta harass trainer that I can use to get better? any advice would be much appreciated. | ||
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DanceCommander
United States1808 Posts
But yea, mass games, UMS maps, and just time in general. | ||
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alphafuzard
United States1610 Posts
On September 06 2008 12:35 DanceCommander wrote: Don't worry about your APM man... Just play games and get your timings down and work on mechanics in general. It will raise with your experience. But yea, mass games, UMS maps, and just time in general. disagree with mass games obviously you aren't going to improve *very quickly* by blindly mass gaming you will make some improvement, but i find it is more helpful to first know everything you need to do in a game (learn timings^, learn build orders, learn how and when to adapt, work on scouting, etc etc), and then learn, one by one, how to execute each piece. you have to focus practice to improve quickly imo. Watching replays of top foreigners and looking at single aspect of a players game is a good way to pick up tips and get a general feel for the said aspect. dont worry to much about the apm number. there is more than enough stuff for you to do in a game (not even those 350+ pros can do it all), so think of your apm as more of a %, meaning, if you compared your game to a hypothetically perfect game, what % of the tasks did you carry out correctly. | ||
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DanceCommander
United States1808 Posts
On September 06 2008 12:52 alphafuzard wrote: disagree with mass games obviously you aren't going to improve *very quickly* by blindly mass gaming you will make some improvement, but i find it is more helpful to first know everything you need to do in a game (learn timings^, learn build orders, learn how and when to adapt, work on scouting, etc etc), and then learn, one by one, how to execute each piece. you have to focus practice to improve quickly imo. Watching replays of top foreigners and looking at single aspect of a players game is a good way to pick up tips and get a general feel for the said aspect. dont worry to much about the apm number. there is more than enough stuff for you to do in a game (not even those 350+ pros can do it all), so think of your apm as more of a %, meaning, if you compared your game to a hypothetically perfect game, what % of the tasks did you carry out correctly. who "blindly" masses games? Find something to improve on and work on it T_T | ||
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dream-_-
United States1857 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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Lurgee
Australia252 Posts
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
Basically you should try out different mechanics and get a good feel and you'll eventually break that cap. Mostly hotkeying and then actually using them for what they are ment for helps. You know like only using 2 3 unit hotkeys and the rest for production helps alot. | ||
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eX-Corgh
Russian Federation386 Posts
But... APM means nothing if you don't know what to do with all those actions. | ||
IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
Do you use all your hotkeys? | ||
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Stimpacked
Philippines368 Posts
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DanceCommander
United States1808 Posts
On September 06 2008 13:52 Stimpacked wrote: yeah APM can get stagnant in a certain range like me for example my APM when I start playing was 120-150 and then i started playing iccup so it became like 200-220 for a T player its good enough but im only C-/C level and i really sweat during those hard fought games. LOL you sweat? Seriously? | ||
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Equinox_kr
United States7395 Posts
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BlackStar
Netherlands3029 Posts
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TeNken.1
United States226 Posts
On September 06 2008 13:16 Lurgee wrote: If you start spamming your apm a lot, you will find that after a few games, much of that spam actually becomes productive apm. Massgaming, along with a focus on apm will help you to improve your apm quite fast. I agree with this. I found that even by just hotkeying my first depot/barrracks and scouting scv, spamming 124124124124, and continually resetting my rally points at the beginning of every game, it would encourage me to try to keep up that pace throughout the game. I found that where before I would just kind of get lost in the game (and pretty much space out), by spamming I eventually started to apply that additional speed towards more useful actions. Basically it forced me to think about what I was going to do next (and form sort of a "mental queue"). I was able to go from 120 apm to 200+ apm in about three months by doing this. | ||
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b0red111
United States48 Posts
Thanks for all the input though, hopefully I can put the advice to good use. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
when i'm moving around the map or watching things that need my focus without needing my mouse instantly I can take both hands and go 3sX4sX5sX6sX7sX etc. I try and do this as much as I can throughout the game as well as normally just doing the the left handed 33sX44sX55sX macro and mouse to collect recent morphs. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
July said he plays best when his hands are sweating | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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dream-_-
United States1857 Posts
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