Nameless Voice on 18/2/2007 at 13:23
I think, at the end of the day, the main difference is that right-handed people use WASD and left-handed people use something else, like IJKL or the arrow keys.
Except for those left-handed people who use the mouse with their right hand, but they're more ambidexterous than anything else.
Gillie on 18/2/2007 at 13:35
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I think, at the end of the day, the main difference is that right-handed people use WASD and left-handed people use something else, like IJKL or the arrow keys.
Except for those left-handed people who use the mouse with their right hand, but they're more ambidexterous than anything else.
My hubby uses the right hand for the mouse,and keeps it on the right too.Though he is left handed.
Yet a friend keeps the mouse on the left, and can not use it on the right very well.:confused:
ilweran on 18/2/2007 at 13:45
Quote Posted by Gillie
My hubby uses the right hand for the mouse,and keeps it on the right too.Though he is left handed.
My dad is left-handed uses cutlery right-handed and always has done. I'm right-handed but eat left-handed and I have no idea why, everyone around me uses cutlery normally. Apparently I sharpen pencils left-handed as well.
Vigil on 18/2/2007 at 13:47
When I was in highschool I used to think that being introspective was a positive personality trait, and that all the time I spent thinking about myself and talking about myself allowed me to become a better person through analysing and correcting my flaws.
Now I realise all it did was make me boring and pretentious.
WHOOPS WRONG THREAD
Tiamat on 18/2/2007 at 14:42
Both my parents are right handed, so I grew up with the mouse on the right side of the keyboard and just learned to use it with that hand. It's actually kind of amusing, because I can barely do anything else except type or use a mouse with my right hand, but I can't use a mouse at all with the left.
Dia on 18/2/2007 at 15:07
Quote Posted by harley
Do lefties use the mouse on the left side of the keyboard?
Are there mouses (mice?) created specifically for left handed people? A six year old relative is left handed, but her teachers insist she use her right hand for the mouse. That's causing some problems for her and imo the teachers are handling this all wrong - seems like a form of repression. She's doing just okay, but could do a lot better if she had a mouse for southpaws.
Vigil on 18/2/2007 at 15:12
Almost all recent mice are symmetrical and can be used in either hand. There should be no reason at all for a kid to be forced to use the mouse in their right hand, especially if are given their own computer profile and can thus set the "handedness" of the buttons specifically for their needs.
Dia on 18/2/2007 at 15:17
Thanks Vigil, I'll pass that on.
Tocky on 18/2/2007 at 16:27
Vigil is such a sweetheart, makes you spit your coffee then helps you clean it up.
NamelessPlayer on 18/2/2007 at 17:29
Consider me part of that evil right-handed majority. I like ambidextrous stuff, but I do own a right-handed mouse(Logitech G5)and two F-16-style right-handed flight sticks(TM F-22 Pro and CH Fighterstick USB). I can't use my left hand worth a crap for any dextrous tasks such as writing or mousing around.
As for skills that may or may not pertain to my handedness:
-I'm exceptional in English. I have a good grasp of the grammar of español, but vocabulary is a bit of a problem for me(mostly because I don't feel like studying a bunch of random words).
-I've never really learned programming, and as such usually go "WTF?" when looking at a block of code. I can understand bits and pieces, but it's not like I'll instantly know which line does what. (Of course, this is going to have to change if I want (
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) the best game ever made as of today on Palm OS 5...)
-I can't draw worth a crap.
-All this nice flight sim gear and reading up of BFMs still doesn't help me shake off those smeghead AI pilots in a heated IL-2 furball. I don't even want to risk embarassing myself online, so I'm practicing offline. (Then again, practicing against human opponents rather than AI that could very well be cheating might be the way to go...)
-In your typical FPS, I can waste the AI with ease. Online, on the other hand...I put my tightened crosshairs on the target, and watch my bullets miraculously miss while theirs find their target. And it only gets worse with the general immature nature of FPS players.
-Since someone brought up FPS keyboard layouts, I used to use WASD, but eventually converted to ESDF. And I don't want to go back, as I like having the three extra keys on the left and the F key bump for blind hand positioning. (Unfortunately, there are games hard-coded for WASD that I have to re-adapt to...)
