# How can you increase your actions per minute? (30) *Writte pre-2023, last update 7/1/2024* My friend once told me a story along these lines: They had a friend who played StarCraft. Most StarCraft players have insane actions per minute (APM). Not this friend! This friend was only at about 40 APM, which was quite low, yet they were still in the top 2% of players. The point my friend was trying to make at the time was that I was task-switching a lot, so my APM was high, but the net outcomes of that were really bad. In general, I see a lot of people trying to increase the hours they work or doing similar things. This seems silly. If you want to do really cool things, then it seems like you should be trying to do high-leverage activities while having low APM to maximize your impact. What skills make your APM higher? How do you make each individual action better? Tags: [Productivity](https://incrium.com/tags/productivity)