yup probably quite a lot, including me. Most lefties I know use the mouse right handed apart from one and another right handed freak that uses the mouse left handed.

here is that right handed "freak" :D

Left handed here too, using my right hand for the mouse.

Left handed using mouse with my left hand.

I'm bored.... :(

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i always wondered, doesnt it feel awkward to mouse with the wrong hand? i cant imagine using the mouse with my left, as a righty...

practice practice

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tbh I do most with my right hand anyway, 'cept write and like, the yo-yo.

im left handed using with my right hand too.
Dont you have the feeling that you cant never reach a stong aim because of using the mouse in the wrong hand? (y say this because is often get outaimed)

"And left handed quakers that use the mouse with the right hand?"


here.

Cooller is not left or right handed, he uses his right hand because he doesn't want to have an unfair advantage using his mind power.

I am left handed, I use mouse with right hand.

Though I use my right to hold spoon or fork, I hold knife in my left. I also use left hand for precise tasks or when I need to use force. So I'm like, 75% left handed :>>>>>

similar situation in my life

i write with a pen in left hand, eat with a spoon or fork in left hand, prefer dribbles the ball with left hand but.....scissors only in right hand, tennis rocket only in right hand, too

I write with my left hand, cut with scissors using my right hand, could play tennis equally well with both (with some practice) and I mouse with right. According to my parents, back in kindergarten when we were asked to write down our name I would write my first name with left and then my last name with right. But I'm rather horrible with both.

There are plenty of left handed quakers. Many do not mouse left handed though. Maybe this comes from having to share a machine with a right hander, donno.

Even so at lans I usually see a few left hand mousing players.

Nothing wrong with it of course. It may even be an advantage in some rare cases since your 'turn tendencies' might be a bit different resulting in certain 'unusual' motions being easier at the expense of some other 'usual' motions being harder, so like opponents might expect a given shot or w/e to be difficult for you when it's easy.

The advantage of using your stronger hand is faster learning, better motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

On the other hand (huehue) then you can use the stronger hand for movement. So your aim might suffer compared, but you movement will be strenghtened

I am left handed and using the mouse with my right dick.

So the two-penised man of Reddit fame alslo plays Quake.

Learn something new every day.

He just forgot a comma there. He intended to call OP a dick.

Read that way it isn't as entertaining.

But it is entertaining. For the few that got decent sense of humour. :)

No, I didn't miss anything.

You missed the joke.

and you ruined mine. :(
Let's call it draw and gg/wp.

Instructions weren't clear?

Having always moused with right out of habit while playing competitive RTS and recreational QL i feel it might be beneficial to switch for QL, as mouse is much more central to performance here. In RTS ex. SC2 I tried switching: myleft hand learned mouse at a decent pace but the right hand stumbled on the keyboard. I think mousing with your off hand may even be ideal in games like SC2/WC3/BW. Fine mouse control is nowhere near as important and putting your best hand in charge of hotkeys and control groups could make quick manipulation of those more comfortable

I'm right handed but use the mouse in my left hand.

for what purpose

Inconvenience. It's not an ambidextrous mouse either...

Left handed. Mouse right. Older brother was right handed so I started from a young age doing it wrong. So now it's right.

I can jump around ok with my left hand mousing though :D

Left handed and use the mouse with my right. I sometimes wonder how it would be if I switched, but I think it'd be super weird to get used to.

lefty here using abyssus in left hand

left handed, mouse in right hand

and another proof that human brain doesnt give a shit, with the right amount of time to adapt

I remember a right handed guy who played with a left hand. His pc was standing on the washing machine and he had no space for mouse on the right side. lmao

similliar story
friend of mine playing on a coffee table no space on the right side
cuz its like 30x30 table so he puts mousepad under keyboard/mouse on the leftisde 2cm/360 ez

IIRC, If-22 was a leftie gamer.

Myself, I write with left hand, I could never write with right, but for everything else I'm right handed.

if-22 played with the left hand ye.

It's strange that you write with left and do other things with right though :s

Same. Write lefty but right hand for everything else.

most lefthanded ppl i know are not as dominant sided as right handed. Im right, and i do everything with right. I dont think lefties are as dominant left, not from what i hear.

it can't be too difficult, considering righthanded people do the harder part with the left hand too when playing guitar.

Pretty sure guitar started out with the harder part being on the right hand. The left hand would lock in a chord while the fingers were going crazy.

you could also say, that the left hand would lock in a chord while the right hand just strums.

Strumming like with a pick? That's much easier than fingering chords.

yea.
and then there is not only chords what the left hand does, but also single notes while playing solos.

I'm talking about the beginnings of guitar and why it was intuitive (at the time) for the guitar to be designed the way it is.

Accidentally +d this... what u say isnt true

i find it is true.

i think that the most difficult thing is to do everything within the rythim and pace of the song, so often the most difficult part is done with the dominant hand.

and the left hand in this case, doesn't have to be in rythm?

often it is not as important. i.e If you are playing punk then you change cords 2 or 3 times while you strumm (?) like 10 times in a verse.
If you are playing metal you change notes a lot with your secondary hand, but whats really important is the exact time when the note is actually played (and also the strength) and thats done with your dominant, more sensitive, hand.
Jimmy Hendrix was a leftie and he prefered to learn to play with the guitar upside down instead of playing as a right-handed.

Jimi* Hendrix, also he didnt play upside down, he used a right handed guitar, and put the strings on upside down. So not much difference from using a left handed guitar. I guess he did it because electric guitars were more uncommon in this time.

that's wrong, hendrix used the strings as they are on a right handed guitar. maybe you mean kurt kobain, he changed the strings to left while often playing on right handed guitars.

Go look at some of Jimi's live performances... You can clearly see it. I I meant that he plays like everyone else, but in order to do that playing lefthanded on a right handed guitar, he had to invert the strings.

All video recorded concers of him are when he was already famous and of course had as many left handed guitars he wanted from sponsors. At the beginning he used a right handed guitar without beeing able to invert the strings (as in most cases the strings dont have the necesary lenght to be able to use them inverted)

Check 2:22.

http://youtu.be/KfGyylmR-aI?t=2m22s

Source? In all videos u can clearly see he is playing on right handed guitars with inverted strings. This was when he was already famous. I tthink he never switched to left handed guitars, as the unique angling of the pickups because of the inverted strings contributed to his sivnature sound.

mh... source was hearsay so it might not be true after all :). The length about the strings beeing too short to be able to use them like hendrix in the video is from experience though, at least the ones we could get in argentina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musician...eft-handed

under notes there says this about hendrix

[Jimi Hendrix was naturally left-handed but his father tried to force him to play right-handed because he believed playing left handed was a sign of the devil. Hendrix took right-handed guitars and restrung them for playing left-handed (Cross 2005:55). Hendrix did continue to write right-handed. Jimi did learn to play right-handed as mandated by his father, he had to play right-handed any time his father was around (and left-handed, upside down, when his father was not around) or risked losing the guitar forever. Once he started making modifications that allowed him to play left handed with the strings in the proper order, he still had to play right-handed with the old man nearby, so he also learned to play right-handed with the strings upside down. His brother Leon's testimony confirms this in Sharon Lawrence's biography "Jimi Hendrix: the man, the magic, the truth" and in quotations from guitar players such as Mike Bloomfield in "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age" by Dave Henderson.]

Fingering chords and riffs is much harder than strumming with a pick.

right-handed, but I often use my left hand to masturbate

I can mouse with my left hand as well as right, always been able to. And in sport for certain things I'm better with my opposite side as opposed to the dominant side.
But I'm not ambidextrous, can't write with left hand or use scissors for shit. tf is that about?

nigga u gay

pretty much exactly this

Lefty & use wmo left handed. I played right handed for a few years. It took a few months to relearn everything but you make rapid progress already knowing mentally how to do things. Pretty interesting physiologically cause the muscle memory was not there.

How did the change affect your game? Do you think the switch was worth the effort in the end?

I've tried a few times but I'm already fairly accurate with my right hand so I end up losing interest.

I switched more because I was wondering if it was possible and I thought, well, I'm left handed, so why don't I just play left handed. Whether it's a benefit or not depends on how comfortable you are right handed. I'm pretty ambidextrous (can pitch a baseball or play tennis with either arm without having a screwed up style... same with most flip tricks on a skateboard), but left handed is still more natural to me.

In the very start switching felt like I'd changed m_pitch and yaw, or something, because I'd mirror the movements left handed and end up turning the wrong way and things like that. But you pick it up quickly, and it's surprising how much of the coordination is mental. You have to relearn everything with the other hand, but it's much faster than learning it for the first time, even though you completely lack experience. Right handed the fine muscle coordination was being developed for the first time for Quake, left handed it already existed and was more about adapting it to q3 and building on that. I developed a good rocket launcher and rail right handed. lg was comfortable almost immediately left handed, and relearning rl was harder because making big movements felt unnatural at first.

I could also sit down and play right handed again without it being a problem. Learning one doesn't make you forget the other. There were really only 1 or 2 times I got frustrated and temporarily switched back to right handed thinking it would help. Neither made a difference so I just stuck with lefty.

As far as being worth it, I think changing corresponded to maybe a year after Q3 ctf pickups and leagues stopped in NA, so for me a lot of the competitive factor had sort of dropped off and I saw this as a new challenge, but I think it still makes the learning curve easier. It's more like starting on even ground.

Left handed people are more likely to be artistic or have a musical flare but are also 10x more likely to commit murder on their fellow man.

I've driven both left and right hand drive cars, many of us here would have, as a right handed man i prefer driving on the right, with gear stick to my left.

still the majority of mankind drives left, with the left hand on the wheel

Interestingly (or not) the reason why the UK drives on the right hand side originates from the days of the horse drawn carts - whilst on way to market you could stop and shake the hand of the cart driver coming the other way with your right hand and enquire about the market up ahead..... these days I often have my right hand out of the window, high fiving every passing car at 90 kmph :)

Lefty here & use wmo with left hand. Played with right hand for a year or so when I first started but moved it over to left pretty quickly.

I always wondered how other lefty players configure their mouse button and keyboard setup. I still use button 1 as fire and click with middle finger and button 2 as jump and click with index finger. I use ijkl keyboard setup with right hand which basically mimics the wasd setup used by right handed players.

I'm a very dominant left handed person, play bass left handed, hold the mouse left handed, talk on the phone left handed etc, there is isn\t anything I can think of which I'm more comfortable using my right hand for.

As to why a lot (if not most) left handed people hold the mouse with their right hand, my theory is that since back in the day computers weren't as cheap and readily available as they are today it was more common to have 1 PC per a house-hold. Now considering 90 percent of the population are right handed, if you wanted to use the mouse with your left hand you had to move it to the other side every time and furthermore if the mouse wasn't ambidextrous it would still feel wrong. Since I come from a fairly wealthy family (don't mean to come off arrogant just trying to keep it real) I always had my own personal computer when growing up so setting the mouse on the left side was never an issue for me. From the small amount of research I've done, most lefties who grew up in a household with 1 computer for the whole family adapted to using the mouse with their right hand and most lefties who grew up with their own personal pc ended up using the mouse with their left hand.

So it's not that I think that left handed people are necessarily less dominant in their side, I think its more a matter of lefties having had to adapt to a world that's designed to suite right handed people.

thats my case (the one with 1 computer per house hold)
When my dad got the first windows 3.1 computer with mouse y spent the first 2 days moving the mouse to the left until i got tired and started using it with my right hand.
What really intrigues me is if the lefties that use the mouse on their right hand could ever be very good aimers. I feel super natural by now using the mouse on my right, but sometimes y feel y fall short aiming in some situations... dont know if its stress, that im not mentally focused in aming in that partucular situation or that my hand its not precise enough.

i remember the-interceptor, qw player with probably the best lg in qw, said he was left handed and learned to play right handed.

Left handed, always used mouse with my right hand.

lost cause switched between the two i think

I have noticed -or it seems to me- that a lot of maps favor right turns as opposed to left turns. It's easier to go around most maps clockwise (making a lot of right turns) vs anti-clockwise. Even going anti-clockwise you often have to make a lot of right turns the way rooms/doorways etc are layed out. Am I delusional or is there something to this?

PS: Globally, roughly 12% of men and 10% of women are left-handed. So map makers will be predominantly right handed. The preference for right turns would be subconscious of course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness

After making the comment I realize I am being stupid and it has to be personal preference. My bad.

do you realise that moving clockwise (right turns) in maps is actually harder for a right-handed person to do than moving counter-clockwise (left turns)? this is because of the fact that both your wrist and arm are easier to bend inwards.

so if your theory was right, it would actually benefit left-handed people. cant really say if you are right or wrong tho.. thinking about aerowalk & ztn and even dm13 to some extend, i must say tho that its actually more favoured to move counter-clockwise on these, as you get into more benefical positions (you mostly aim/move down stairs instead of going up. for example its problematic to fight an enemy on ztn while going clockwise from rocketlauncher > shards > teleexit to 50hp)

so i think you may be right if you reverse all your claims :D

depends on your seat, for me it's easier to bend outwards

left handed but use the mouse right handed, or left handed, but generally right handed.