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Do you use your right hand or your left hand when you...
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I'm right-handed and use the mouse predominantly with the right hand, but occasionally with the left. I feel like my deficit in mouse ability with my LH is much lower than, say, my deficit with writing LH. I can do it nearly as well LH without a lot of extra practice as I can RH.
I don't know if that's typical of other people's experience, also?
I could understand then using RH, just because the keyboard/mouse relationship was not really well-designed for sinistrality.
That kind of reminds me of my pet project... I am making an effort to play all my stylus-based DS games left-handed (stylus in left and right hand on buttons). It's been challenging, but I've been progressing through Trauma Center, Metroid, and most recently Brain Age in this way.
I don't know if that's typical of other people's experience, also?
I could understand then using RH, just because the keyboard/mouse relationship was not really well-designed for sinistrality.
That kind of reminds me of my pet project... I am making an effort to play all my stylus-based DS games left-handed (stylus in left and right hand on buttons). It's been challenging, but I've been progressing through Trauma Center, Metroid, and most recently Brain Age in this way.
Somewhat. I can't write left-handed at all, but mousing left-handed seems natural. At worst, maybe a little slower, which would explain why I prefer to do gaming with my right hand (except for strategy games and stuff where speed doesn't matter).
The only thing I seem to have a problem with in that regard is command-tab. Because you can't really select icons with the mouse that way, so you're stuck cycling through them with the keyboard.
--Eric
Yeah, Cmd-tab and cmd-` are probably the most egregious. On notebooks, unless you use a hack, there is neither a right Ctrl key nor a right Opt key, so also any commands that use those will be hard (although you can get one back by using doublecommand to change the function of the enter key next to the right Cmd key).
Anyway, I'm on day two of my project to see how my LH writing improves. In addition to the DS playing, which I've been doing for a couple of weeks, I'm now also trying to force myself to do block writing exercises daily. Just the capital A-Z, lowercase a-z, and 0-9.
Who knows? I'm curious to see how much better my LH dexterity can get.
If I were really good about this, I'd also be tracking my performance using a grooved pegboard and a finger tapper from our Clinic.
I use my right hand. I couldn't comfortably use my mouse if I used my left hand as it's made for use with the right hand.
My first Mac was a Macintosh 512 enhanced. The port was on the right side of the back of the Mac and the cord for the mouse was a bit on the short side so you really had to have it on the user's right side so I became right-handed for mousing, normally I am left-handed.
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Same here. I think it came from a desire to be able to use the numeric keypad while using the mouse. Can't recall if that was because I liked to use spreadsheets or because I liked to play games. Now it's ingrained.
