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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by tylerpachal on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:02PM (#12875018)
I've followed the professional StarCraft 2 scene for a long time now. There were a few players who were famous for having high APMs, here is an over-the-sholder view of one of them [1]. I don't have a reference but believe he used to play in the ~500APM range. That would probably be the upper limit of a human's ability.

[1] https://youtu.be/WHcl6Cs1FAM?t=7m57s

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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by hughes on Friday November 04, 2016 @04:50PM (#12876001)
I wouldn't be surprised if a 500APM player is making closer to 100 meaningful actions per minute. It looks like most of the actions are spam that may register on the APM meter but not affect the outcome of the game.

An AI limited to even 200 decision-driven actions per minute would probably have a significant advantage over a "500APM" player.

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