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I recently got my ass beat by a player that had a 400+ APM. Is that even humanly possible or is it one of these bots?
by DonnyV 8y ago
I recently got my ass beat by a player that had a 400+ APM. Is that even humanly possible or is it one of these bots?
- lhorie 8y agoDefinitely possible. A progamer like Serral for example can maintain 500+ apm on 20+ min games, and can peak to 700+ apm.
- postalrat 8y ago70 real actions and 630 useless clicks.
- Veelox 8y agoThis comment makes me think you have never played starcraft.
- edmundhuber 8y agoI play a ton of SC2 and he is mostly right.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoHave you? It's "easy" to get an APM over 1,000: Step 1: Hotkey units on 1-9 Step 2: Slam face on keyboard numpad Holding down a hotkey to build things (even if you don't have the minerals) also increases your APM. Lots of players (especially the pros) will spam actions in the quieter parts of the early game to keep their fingers warmed up, or to start building a unit the millisecond they have enough minerals to afford it.
- murderfs 8y agoAPM accounting in SC2 is dumb and broken for Zerg: if you're building 100 zerglings, you select all of your hatcheries with one action, select your larvae with one action, and then hold down Z for 100 actions in a split second. It's not unreasonable to have 200+ real APM in bursts, though. For example, at the beginning of games in Brood War, pretty much anyone competent is going to do something along the lines of the following in about 3 seconds: click command center build scv select all scvs mine a mineral patch select a scv mine a different mineral patch select a scv mine a different mineral patch select a scv mine a different mineral patch click command center set command center hotkey set command center rally point set camera hotkey which is 280 APM. You'll see similar bursts during macro cycles, which are generally just (click building, press M) repeated 10 or so times in a short period.
- vvillena 8y agoIt's more like 300 or 400 real actions during the heavy, action-packed moments. It's just insane. I doubt I can even click a mouse that fast.
- kowdermeister 8y agoI've reddit[1] as programmer and it's terrifying to think somebody can bang out code at that speed for 20+ min beside you. [1] pun intended
- hannasanarion 8y agoMost of those APM aren't actually doing anything productive, they are spamming build unit buttons or repeating a command order. It's really common in Starcraft for people to press lots of buttons they don't strictly need to in order to "keep warm".
- ajuc 8y agoPro players have such APM. Even higher for most intense periods in the game. It's also possible to cheat by spamming the same commands over and over to look "like a pro" in the stats and some people do this.
- friendlybus 8y agoI've seen a super meat boy player say across consoles and pcs it's roughly 6 button presses a second (not apm) that most pros can handle. On a mouse you can go higher, but the real skill is making those presses useful.