Origin
The term APM originates from Starcraft which was popularised after the development of a large number of community tools allowing observers of game matches to view player resources and actions per minute which was used as a metric in determining a player's skill. After the release of Starcraft 2, many of these metrics were built into the game's interface, including APM which further popularised the term's usage and served to increase the competitiveness of the game.
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