New players often spam just to get faster, but then as they get better a larger and larger percentage of those actions are useful. The spam is only unnecessary

New players often spam just to get faster, but then as they get better a larger and larger percentage of those actions are useful. The spam is only unnecessary at the very early game, when it's more just to warm up. And of course they aren't doing 300 different tasks per minute. Doing a task takes more than one action. e.g. if you select a unit, then order to it attack a point, that was 3 actions. (click unit, hit a, click point). But they do quite a lot of different tasks per minute. jaedong had a game, with kal i think, in something like a semi finals, not too long ago, where there were 4 fights going on at the same time. and despite the fights, they still have to macro (which involves a variety of tasks: making new buildings, making new units, assigning workers to resources, gathering and hotkeying units). Edit: Just remembered seeing Flash drinking several times during the first minute of the game in big tournaments. It's not like he cares what his apm is.