User blog comment:Steelside/Do You Believe in Skill Caps?/@comment-78.94.224.187-20120612211423

First of all there is a limit to your abilities only from a physical standpoint. In short: the older you get, the slower your reaction time will be. This isn't as big a problem as with SC-Players, but still matters. Learning times usually also get longer which starts to matter if the game introduces new elements on a regular basis. And then there is of course genetics. There is for example a certain genetic component associated with people climbing the Everest without oxygen and another for olympic power athletes. Of course you can put the usual 10000 hours in like everyone else but there will still be people whose brains and hands are wired in a more suitable way than yours.