APM is not that important. It is just the age old problem that a measurable factor will tend to overshadow other factors that are not as easily measurable. Wha

APM is not that important. It is just the age old problem that a measurable factor will tend to overshadow other factors that are not as easily measurable. What is much much more important for the game of Starcraft is split second decision making ability to micro and macro, overall awareness, having a large number of possible strategies and unit interactions stored in your mind and ready for instant recall, etc., none of which are really measurable. A player that has less APM can be much better at micromanaging his/her units than a player with larger APM. The less APM player can just make sure that all those clicks and button presses count more. Blizzard decided to measure current APM and give you a real time readout for Starcraft 2 which very predictably resulted in a lot of spamming, i.e., players meaninglessly cliking their mouse and pressing buttons in order to raise their APM and to convince anyone watching them that they are really really good.