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Not hard to learn to use the mouse with your non-dominant hand. It's just a couple of days of practice. And then switch between your left and you right every ot

by dsego 7y ago

Not hard to learn to use the mouse with your non-dominant hand. It's just a couple of days of practice. And then switch between your left and you right every other day. Don't even have to flip the buttons, just learn to use the index for secondary and middle for primary clicks.

wincy 7y ago
I’m left handed and find it impossible to use a mouse with my left hand.
- joecool1029 7y ago
  I'm ambidextrous so it doesn't matter for me. But since I am, I tend to observe who is left and right handed around me since I'm pretty aware of ergonomic shifts between using either hand for certain activities. Out of left-handed people, around 80% use the mouse exclusively with their right hand. In fact I can only think of one other than you that exclusively uses the mouse with their left (a bookkeeper a few doors down from my office).
ssully 7y ago
I am right handed but use my mouse left handed because growing up my Dad always had the mouse on the left side of the keyboard (because he is lefty). I used to move it to the right side, but gave up because the way our desk was basically required you to rerun the cable.
- dsego 7y ago
  My thinking was, hey if I can learn to fret my guitar chords with my left hand, than I can learn to use the mouse. I also hold the knife in my right and fork in my left.
  - Symbiote 7y ago
    > I also hold the knife in my right and fork in my left. That's the usual way for Europeans. I never realized Americans did it differently, until we gained an American colleague at lunchtimes, and ... well, it just looked a lot more complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette#European_style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette#Europ...
    - Leherenn 7y ago
      I didn't know there was a standard, but I have seen people do the switch before, and it looked inefficient. I guess I am a reversed-European, despite being right-handed. Fork in right hand and knife in left hand. It's always a bit awkward at first when taking up the cutlery because I have to switch at that time. Funnily enough, there's also a standard when putting down cutlery on the plate, and I have remarks for this while never for the way I eat (they probably assume I am left handed).
- undersuit 7y ago
  I'm left handed but always used the mouse right handed, but my standing desk's keyboard tray flexes too much with the mouse on the far right. It was incredibly easy for me to switch my mouse to the left side, centering my keys to the middle of the tray eliminating flex and bounce. I still use the same mouse button orientation, I found that switching the buttons makes it incredibly difficult to shift back to right handed at home or in public.

by dsego 7y ago

wincy 7y ago

I’m left handed and find it impossible to use a mouse with my left hand.

joecool1029 7y ago
I'm ambidextrous so it doesn't matter for me. But since I am, I tend to observe who is left and right handed around me since I'm pretty aware of ergonomic shifts between using either hand for certain activities. Out of left-handed people, around 80% use the mouse exclusively with their right hand. In fact I can only think of one other than you that exclusively uses the mouse with their left (a bookkeeper a few doors down from my office).

ssully 7y ago

I am right handed but use my mouse left handed because growing up my Dad always had the mouse on the left side of the keyboard (because he is lefty). I used to move it to the right side, but gave up because the way our desk was basically required you to rerun the cable.

dsego 7y ago
My thinking was, hey if I can learn to fret my guitar chords with my left hand, than I can learn to use the mouse. I also hold the knife in my right and fork in my left.
- Symbiote 7y ago
  > I also hold the knife in my right and fork in my left. That's the usual way for Europeans. I never realized Americans did it differently, until we gained an American colleague at lunchtimes, and ... well, it just looked a lot more complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette#European_style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette#Europ...
  - Leherenn 7y ago
    I didn't know there was a standard, but I have seen people do the switch before, and it looked inefficient. I guess I am a reversed-European, despite being right-handed. Fork in right hand and knife in left hand. It's always a bit awkward at first when taking up the cutlery because I have to switch at that time. Funnily enough, there's also a standard when putting down cutlery on the plate, and I have remarks for this while never for the way I eat (they probably assume I am left handed).
undersuit 7y ago
I'm left handed but always used the mouse right handed, but my standing desk's keyboard tray flexes too much with the mouse on the far right. It was incredibly easy for me to switch my mouse to the left side, centering my keys to the middle of the tray eliminating flex and bounce. I still use the same mouse button orientation, I found that switching the buttons makes it incredibly difficult to shift back to right handed at home or in public.