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I'm predominantly left-handed, except on the computer. Where I use the mouse with my right hand and play FPS games using the mouse on my right hand, as well. No

I'm predominantly left-handed, except on the computer. Where I use the mouse with my right hand and play FPS games using the mouse on my right hand, as well. Not sure how common this is.

acureau 2y ago
Yep me too, I'm sure there are many things we've subconsciously adapted to using with our right hands. Actually I've never bought a product purpose made for left-handed people.
goosedragons 2y ago
I'm guessing your school or home computer had it on the right growing up? I got used to using it on the right because I didn't want to move the mouse to the left in the school computer labs as it was always a clutter of cords. At home half my family was left handed and mainly the PC was used by the lefties so I got used to playing FPSs with the left hand. I kinda hate playing on PC now because WASD is trash left hand mousing and it's A HUGE PITA to remap every single key to make sense on the the other side of the keyboard, some games don't even let you map keys like ';' because IDK, fuck me I guess. I do think I'm more accurate with my left too.
- deafpolygon 2y ago
  I didn't really use a computer until my 1st year in college. And I didn't own a computer until I was 19, so I didn't learn to play FPS until I was in my 20's. Before using WASD, I used WER and Space key for movement. Q=Jump, W=Forward, E=Strafe Left, R=Strafe Right. This allowed me to easily reach the number row and remap T=Chat 123456ASDFG for switching weapons and game controls. I switched to WASD with World of Warcraft, and use that for everything now mostly out of laziness and inertia (tired of rebinding everything, as you do). I tried to use the mouse w/ my left hand and couldn't. Too much of the controls are right-hand centric. Keyboard shortcuts for browsing are all on the left side, etc. It does feel nicer to have it on the left hand sometimes.

I'm predominantly left-handed, except on the computer. Where I use the mouse with my right hand and play FPS games using the mouse on my right hand, as well. Not sure how common this is.

acureau 2y ago

Yep me too, I'm sure there are many things we've subconsciously adapted to using with our right hands. Actually I've never bought a product purpose made for left-handed people.

goosedragons 2y ago

I'm guessing your school or home computer had it on the right growing up? I got used to using it on the right because I didn't want to move the mouse to the left in the school computer labs as it was always a clutter of cords. At home half my family was left handed and mainly the PC was used by the lefties so I got used to playing FPSs with the left hand. I kinda hate playing on PC now because WASD is trash left hand mousing and it's A HUGE PITA to remap every single key to make sense on the the other side of the keyboard, some games don't even let you map keys like ';' because IDK, fuck me I guess. I do think I'm more accurate with my left too.

deafpolygon 2y ago
I didn't really use a computer until my 1st year in college. And I didn't own a computer until I was 19, so I didn't learn to play FPS until I was in my 20's. Before using WASD, I used WER and Space key for movement. Q=Jump, W=Forward, E=Strafe Left, R=Strafe Right. This allowed me to easily reach the number row and remap T=Chat 123456ASDFG for switching weapons and game controls. I switched to WASD with World of Warcraft, and use that for everything now mostly out of laziness and inertia (tired of rebinding everything, as you do). I tried to use the mouse w/ my left hand and couldn't. Too much of the controls are right-hand centric. Keyboard shortcuts for browsing are all on the left side, etc. It does feel nicer to have it on the left hand sometimes.