It is always better to use hotkeys than to click with a mouse. For example, you can click “A” to produce a Marine on a Barracks rather than clicking on the Marine icon with your mouse. Hotkeys refer to the key pressed on the keyboard to execute a command. A keyboard command is quicker and more precise than a mouse click, because the mouse has travel time and the keyboard does not. This is done by replacing mouse clicking actions with keyboard clicks whenever it is realistically possible. The purpose of hotkeys and control groups is essentially to keep our mouse cursor around the middle of the screen as much as possible. You can tell that INnoVation’s mouse cursor is almost always around the middle of the screen. I pick INnoVation as the example because he is well regarded by other progamers to have the most “clean and efficient” mechanics. The above vod is a first player view of INnoVation’s game against sOs way back in 2013. This allows you to minimise the mouse movement, which directly leads to mechanics efficiency. My answer to the above question is to look at how often the mouse cursor is in the middle of the screen. After you have done so, watch the clip below. Try to answer it in your mind, there is no right or wrong answer.
What are the things you will look at in that short amount of time to make your best judgement? If you can, point it down to one single thing. Imagine you are told to evaluate how good a player’s mechanics is based on her/his stream video (i.e., first player view), and you can only look at each clip for no more than ten seconds. Before I get to the main content, I will ask you one question, and the answer sets the foundation for the whole post. However, there are still some habits that every player should adopt regardless of so-called preferences, and I will point those out in this article. As per my usual style, I explain things logically, and put forward my argument of what I think is optimal or close.
We all have different habits in regards to hotkeys and control groups, and I am not going to tell you what the best way is. I will cover the rationale behind the use of hotkeys and control groups. This is the fifth article of The Elementary Series.
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