The StarCraft Bible 2nd Edition by Patrick Howell O'neill

Author:Patrick Howell O'neill [O'neill, Patrick Howell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: my-books, Games, Video & Electronic, vl-nfcompvg
ISBN: 9781456489731
Google: G9VJYgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1456489739
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

One thing I would never do is try to teach better players about mechanics, macro or micro, etc. They know more about that stuff than I do, however I can talk with authority about how to learn to do many of those things unconsciously, leaving their mind free to think about tactics and strategy. With that said, I will now attempt to pass on some of my wisdom. Please, if you think what I write hereafter or have written hither to is useless, wrong, incomplete, unclear, brilliant, or otherwise, feel free to say so. However, if you have nothing useful, correct, succinct, respectful, legible, logical, constructive, creative, or worthwhile to say, please, for the love of all things Blizzard: keep it to yourself, you shall merely be an inconvenience that I skip past as I scroll down the screen. I would ask everyone who has something worthwhile to contribute, even those who disagree with me, to not feed the trolls.

What most people do not realise is that if you can hit any requested key on a keyboard without looking, you have developed all the muscle memory you will ever develop for playing any PC game. Again, muscle memory is simply the memory of how pressing that key feels. Simply put, if you can touch type, you have fully developed your muscle memory for a keyboard. You have also developed the unconscious memory of how to touch type. So now you just need to learn the unconscious memory for playing which ever game you play. For the purposes of this article, I will directly refer to SC2, but you can apply the

principles to any game.

So, first off. There are ways to accelerate the learning process, they are simple and you can use them when you are not even playing the game. I will talk about simple techniques for developing muscle and unconscious memory. Lets start with keyboard muscle memory.

Before I go further, even if you can perfectly touch type already, try these exercises or better yet, just start doing it one handed right away.

Open up a text editor, any will do, but if you want to be flash use Microshaft or OpenOffice. Type this sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The sentence is a Pangram (it uses every letter of the Latin alphabet) Repeat it over and over for about a minute, making sure to hit enter at the end of the sentence, you can look at your hands as you type if you need to. You will end up with a screen like this:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Now turn off your monitor, look directly at the screen (do not ever look at your keyboard) and repeat the process for about a minute. Do not attempt to correct yourself or worry if you mess up, perfection can only be achieved through practice. If you perform this exercise once or twice every day you will see improvement within a matter of weeks.

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