That is just nuts, I'm sure they make some waste clicks and moves too sometimes.
In the first 1-3 minutes of the game most of these pro gamers spam the hell outta their keyboards without seriously doing anything (warm-up), but after that almost every keystroke is intended (unless they're in a down-phase where they keep themselves warmed up by spamming again).
Of course not every press makes a unit, builds a building or moves a group, but there's enough things to be done, like cycling through your buildings to check building/upgrade progress, watching out for your scouts, regulary adding workers to the building queue (and in SC1 there's no auto-mine), using the patrol-move trick on mutas or vultures, switching overlord or scvs in and out a group when abusing the unit-stack-bug, etc etc.
Generally you can't say that somebody with a high apm is a good player, but you can say that a good player usually has high apm.
That is just nuts, I'm sure they make some waste clicks and moves too sometimes.
Not too often. Only during the early phase for warm up. If they spam click they lose one action that may cost them the game. If you look at SC tournaments not all SCVs are at work nor have the action to do every macro. We are talking about the top level, even Flash and Jaedong. If you played SC in ICCup, you will realise there is no click to spare.
Regarding APM and whether it makes a good player
There is no low APM players in star league, absolute zero. Yes good player usually has high apm but to become a great player you must have high APM, no way of going around it. So if you cap at 90 APM sadly you can't become a top SC player. Using basketball as analogy, people can't become a great basketball player if they you have bad hand-eye co-ordination. It doesn't mean if you have great hand-eye co-ordination you are good basketball since it's just one of the factors that makes the person good at basketball.
Not too often. Only during the early phase for warm up. If they spam click they lose one action that may cost them the game. If you look at SC tournaments not all SCVs are at work nor have the action to do every macro. We are talking about the top level, even Flash and Jaedong. If you played SC in ICCup, you will realise there is no click to spare.
Regarding APM and whether it makes a good player
There is no low APM players in star league, absolute zero. Yes good player usually has high apm but to become a great player you must have high APM, no way of going around it. So if you cap at 90 APM sadly you can't become a top SC player. Using basketball as analogy, people can't become a great basketball player if they you have bad hand-eye co-ordination. It doesn't mean if you have great hand-eye co-ordination you are good basketball since it's just one of the factors that makes the person good at basketball.
Expect basketball is completely different kind of game.
Anyways this click spam constantly is not really that they don't remember something but to make reaction speed more closer like multitasking AI. What brings to point that there is various factors what reduce need of APM with some players.
I'll break it down for you
- They are both competitive
- Requires many key factors [Examples used in analogy: APM for SC; hand-eye co-ordination for Basketball]
- Missing one of the key factor means they cannot be great at particular activity
- Being great at that one factor does not mean they will be great at particular activity
Conclusion:
If you have bad hand-eye co-ordination, you are going to suck at Basketball. If you have great hand-eye co-ordination it doesn't necessarily mean you will be great at Basketball, since it's just one of the factors that makes a good player. Analogy
If you have bad APM, you are going to suck at SC. If you have great APM it doesn't necessarily mean you will be great at SC, since it's just one of the factors that makes a good player.
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http://kotaku.com/5580080/korean-gamers-are-faster-than-a-speeding-bullet
LOL
That is just nuts, I'm sure they make some waste clicks and moves too sometimes.
I ended up watching the whole movie, it's pretty interesting.
Yea, i get the idea the subtitles didnt cover what they said in its entirety but it was a good watch.
Holy crap. I could move my fingers that fast with enough practice but hardly efficient ones. :9
In the first 1-3 minutes of the game most of these pro gamers spam the hell outta their keyboards without seriously doing anything (warm-up), but after that almost every keystroke is intended (unless they're in a down-phase where they keep themselves warmed up by spamming again).
Of course not every press makes a unit, builds a building or moves a group, but there's enough things to be done, like cycling through your buildings to check building/upgrade progress, watching out for your scouts, regulary adding workers to the building queue (and in SC1 there's no auto-mine), using the patrol-move trick on mutas or vultures, switching overlord or scvs in and out a group when abusing the unit-stack-bug, etc etc.
Generally you can't say that somebody with a high apm is a good player, but you can say that a good player usually has high apm.
Not too often. Only during the early phase for warm up. If they spam click they lose one action that may cost them the game. If you look at SC tournaments not all SCVs are at work nor have the action to do every macro. We are talking about the top level, even Flash and Jaedong. If you played SC in ICCup, you will realise there is no click to spare.
Regarding APM and whether it makes a good player
There is no low APM players in star league, absolute zero. Yes good player usually has high apm but to become a great player you must have high APM, no way of going around it. So if you cap at 90 APM sadly you can't become a top SC player. Using basketball as analogy, people can't become a great basketball player if they you have bad hand-eye co-ordination. It doesn't mean if you have great hand-eye co-ordination you are good basketball since it's just one of the factors that makes the person good at basketball.
Expect basketball is completely different kind of game.
Anyways this click spam constantly is not really that they don't remember something but to make reaction speed more closer like multitasking AI. What brings to point that there is various factors what reduce need of APM with some players.
If basketball was the same kind of game it would not be an analogy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
I'll break it down for you
- They are both competitive
- Requires many key factors [Examples used in analogy: APM for SC; hand-eye co-ordination for Basketball]
- Missing one of the key factor means they cannot be great at particular activity
- Being great at that one factor does not mean they will be great at particular activity
Conclusion:
If you have bad hand-eye co-ordination, you are going to suck at Basketball. If you have great hand-eye co-ordination it doesn't necessarily mean you will be great at Basketball, since it's just one of the factors that makes a good player.
AnalogyIf you have bad APM, you are going to suck at SC. If you have great APM it doesn't necessarily mean you will be great at SC, since it's just one of the factors that makes a good player.