I'll start with a few dumb ones I make:

- Forget my orbital command. There's nothing worse than getting to about 50 food and wondering why you have so few minerals.

- Forgetting to check the destructible rocks to my base

- Forgetting a key upgrade. (STIM!)

- Sometimes if I place my buildings differently than usual for whatever reason, I forget my second supply depot.

Archas

United States6531 Posts

November 21 2010 19:43 GMT

Since I'm garbage at StarCraft, pretty much everything I do is a mistake. Probably the worst one I've made is accidentally Psi Storming my own Zealots when my mouse slipped and put the cursor right over my army. =(

There are a few pretty "OMG"-worthy screwups I've seen in high-end games, though. Like blocking your own expansion while Forge fast-expanding, consistently forgetting to research Extended Thermal Lance. Stuff like that makes me cringe.

Attican

Denmark531 Posts

November 21 2010 19:44 GMT

I get supply blocked fairly often. That and forgetting to keep up worker production is probably the most common mistakes I make.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States43410 Posts

November 21 2010 19:46 GMT

Everything in the previous posts and...

When I use a chono boost on the wrong building -.-'

When I accidentally let speedlings slip into my base x.x

Uranium

United States1077 Posts

November 21 2010 19:49 GMT

Really, just forgetting to start my lair in time and getting owned by Banshees/Void Rays. This only happens to me 1/20 games but it still makes me rage every time.

Oh and making 8 Drones when I see the guy's army is pushing to my base. ........... Stupid greedy Zerg.

Metalwing

Turkey1038 Posts

November 21 2010 19:51 GMT

Hey, you're the guy who wrote about how to get ranked in the IT industry, it was a nice blog and among my bookmarks.

My stupid noob mistakes:

1- Don't transition out of mutas. Yes, sometimes I don't. But i can still win. I'm silver.
2- Have over 9000 minerals and literally 0 gas. This has some kind of reason but I don't know it yet.
3- Not exploding burrowed banelings when a big group of marines are on it.
4- Not giving a shit to evo chamber upgrades.
5- Not spreading creep at all.
6- Getting supply blocked with 20 excess larvae before the 8th minute.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

November 21 2010 19:51 GMT

Stopping workers when spamming at the beginning :|

Conversion

United States3308 Posts

November 21 2010 19:51 GMT

when going 2 hatch lurk all in with zerg in bw and successfully containing a terran

... then I realize I forgot to rerally my shit and i have OLs + drones sniped by marines

QQ

babolatt

Canada312 Posts

November 21 2010 19:52 GMT

On November 22 2010 04:44 Attican wrote:
I get supply blocked fairly often. That and forgetting to keep up worker production is probably the most common mistakes I make.

One thing I did that really helped with this was to play against the computer (or ladder if you want), do your normal thing and then check the replays. At the 10 minute mark you should have a MINIMUM of 30 SCV's (if you're Terran, the number is a bit different for other races but still a decent benchmark). Ideally you're 35+ workers.

blahman3344

United States2015 Posts

November 21 2010 19:53 GMT

#10

For me, it's usually supply blocks or forgetting to macro. Whenever this happens, I usually try to go into qxc's practice map and just crank out the build over until I get it right.

seRapH

United States9706 Posts

November 21 2010 19:56 GMT

#11

On November 22 2010 04:51 emperorchampion wrote:
Stopping workers when spamming at the beginning :|

>.<

also i keep selecting multiple workers to build shit, and when i build stuff i always move towards the site before building, so pretty much half my workers go HEY LETS GO TO THAT RANDOM LOCATION. pretty much lose 100-200 minerals of mining time doing this =\

babolatt

Canada312 Posts

November 21 2010 19:56 GMT

#12

On November 22 2010 04:51 Metalwing wrote:
Hey, you're the guy who wrote about how to get ranked in the IT industry, it was a nice blog and among my bookmarks.

Thanks man! I still have a part 2 planned!

canucks12

Canada812 Posts

November 21 2010 20:01 GMT

#13

I tend to forget important things at my house and only remember them when I'm already halfway to my bus stop. It forces me to sprint back home and then sprint to the bus stop. I've done this countless times with my wallet.

Typho0n

Canada276 Posts

November 21 2010 20:02 GMT

#14

- having all my peons selected and hitting s by accident
- forgetting warpgate tech
- forgetting stim
- forgetting to make a queen

playing random (at least for me) you forget to do a lot of simple stuff lol

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

November 21 2010 20:07 GMT

#15

I forget zergling speed like every 5th game, it is the most annoying thing ever.

"Hm, why does my army feel so slow...where are the wings...why don't my fucking zerglings have wings...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Edit:

Also, I sometimes accidently hotkey my first 3 larvae instead of my hatchery at the start of the game. (split workers at start, click on hatchery and hit sd to make drone, then forget to click back to hatchery before ctrl+5) Usually it is no big deal, but sometimes I end up hitting 5sd without realizing it and boom, idle drone.

N.geNuity

United States5111 Posts

November 21 2010 20:09 GMT

#16

Well, for sc2 the main mistake I make that makes me rage is when I actually scout cheese and don't respond. Often times I have 1 reaper to scout in tvt or tvp, and if I....

Actually spot a dark shrine building? MULE UP.
See a stargate for a void ray? ~~MARINE~~ MARAUDER UP.
See them with a starport and tech lab? MULE UP.

I actually play right and see what they are doing, then use my scans for mules and go "oh yeah! I forgot they were going cloaked stuff!" or play as I normally do instead of actually using the scouting info.