Can APM be tracked?

Can player actions be seperated from non-human actions in any real sense?

APM may be something that may be directly correlated with skill of players.

If this is so, perhaps APM could be tracked and maybe included into elo calculations?

I'm not sure if you can differentiate player/widget commands externally. You might be able do it with a local widget I think.

Spring currently tracks mouse movement distance and clicks per minute so that's some measure of player APM, but not really a good one.

APM increase generally increases skill, but the correlation is only general. For example you can get to 2k Elo with 10 APM by spamming Singu. You can also have 400 APM and be a 1100 if you use it wrongly. APM cannot be used for Elo because nothing except victory/defeat can (see earlier Elo discussions).

There is a fairly strong positive correlation between overall skill level and APM. The correlation between skill level and team ELO, however, is not nearly as strong.

The APM/skill correlation only works in one direction.
Good players usually have high APM.
But some players with high APM maybe just

but it would be interesting to see it as seperated number, I do not think highest apm == highest elo.

science could be done. correlation between successful skuttling, or if apm or F-command is superior in air to air combat. this could end in some nice pie charts.

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