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My bad, I read that but after watching a replay I usually think the guy who loses is the one asking.

Luckily, everything I said is still true: your build sucks. Gas before pool means you have to put down a pool as soon as you have 200 minerals, that way when you have 100 gas your pool finishes and you can start speed researches. You waited 40 game seconds after getting enough money to start a pool this is extremely important as I'll explain in the paragraph after next.

14 gas/14 pool is the right idea, but you can't really afford to lose 40 seconds on your pool, you'd get raped by any kind of rush. You need to build your second queen from your first hatch before your second hatch is near completion, this gives you creep tumor to spread while still larva injecting, the creep tumor helps you get units between bases to defend as well as more queens = easier banshee rush defense.

Back to your pool timing, with lings coming out 40 seconds earlier, you can send 2 to his front to check if he's walled-in. If not just mass lings and kill him, why play a 30 min game when you can kill him in 8? If you feel thats "cheap" or some other moral dilemma with killing idiots, send in 14ish speedlings and kill his workers so you're more ahead economically into the mid game. Just remember to scout.

My 7 min benchmark thingy still stands: The average low diamond player (pretty bad) can get 40-50 (anything above low diamond they'll have 50 food every time) food in 7 minutes, you have 28 food and an awesome army of 13 zerglings and a queen, no way in hell you can hold that. I'll attach a replay in a bit of me doing the average 3 rax against a comp, look at my unit composition and ask yourself every game whether or not you can hold against that army. If not your build is not gonna cut it.

After you can get an army to hold the 3-rax with FE, you'll probably find shit like banshees annoying, well, chances are, if your army can hold a 7 min 3-rax push, theirs probably can't especially if they got high tier units like banshees, so just go kill him with your army. (don't forget to scout ahead with 2 lings)

If you have trouble macroing (1.5k+ minerals in <10 min, 200 energy queen) throw down 2 more hatcheries in your main. Pros usually do this 20+ min into the game, but since you're struggling so early they you need to do this earlier. When you get better/more apm then you can cut back, but as of now, if you see your money >800 mins throw down a second hatch. If you see it over 800 min again, throw down a third one etc.

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Here's the 3rax: http://www.mediafire.com/?nrupum38wxwfhmn
If you're thinking, wow you played bad forgetting scvs and a couple seconds on production cycles and walled in wrong, yup, that's all true cause I'm rusty, but that army would stim and still roll you. Benchmark your builds against that 7 min push, if you can't survive with your expansion, you gotta play better/use a better build.