How do left handed gamers, game?

[Tom09]

Hi left handed gamers, I was just wondering where you put your keyboard and mouse when you game and what hand do you use on your mouse and keyboard.

[Moonzy]

here's video

 

but i guess osu is exception since we only really use 2 keys

 

buttttttt im also not surprised by anything anymore after i saw this

 

 

edit: i remembered that i have a left handed friend, but he games like right handed people so -shrug-

as in, mouse in right hand

[minibois]

I'm not left-handed myself, but slightly ambidextrous and know some left-handed people.

Usually people either:

- Become right handed mouse users

- Use ambidextrous mice

- Use a right-handed mouse with their left hand

 

all with various levels of success.

[Drama Lama]

4 hours ago, Tom09 said:

Hi left handed gamers, I was just wondering where you put your keyboard and mouse when you game and what hand do you use on your mouse and keyboard.

Most just do it like right handed people 

[Commodus]

I learned to mouse with my right hand. It's just as well, I'd have a hard time using something other than WASD for keyboard input!

[Zelvan]

I'm left handed in every way but use a PC and a knife/fork the same as right handed people.

[Blue4130]

I am left handed and have become fairly ambidextrous. The sad reality is that it's a right handed world, so we learn to adapt. 

[Monkey Dust]

I've always wondered why left-handed gaming mice aren't a thing? Same guts in a mirror image case, how hard could it be? 

[Arika]

Right handed when using a mouse. 

Left handed when using trackpad. 

[Moonzy]

23 minutes ago, Monkey Dust said:

I've always wondered why left-handed gaming mice aren't a thing? Same guts in a mirror image case, how hard could it be? 

The mold cost doesn't justify the amount they'll sell, the per unit price will be much higher

That's what I assume

[divito]

Used to know someone in the CS scene that was left handed; they had mouse on the left and used the arrow keys, nav keys, R-CTRL/SHIFT and num pad area for their bindings. I'm sure other people have similar leanings, as well as what people have posted here.

[it_dont_work]

7 hours ago, Commodus said:

I learned to mouse with my right hand. It's just as well, I'd have a hard time using something other than WASD for keyboard input!

Same, no idea how or why someone would otherwise. I'm not reconfiguring every pc I go and use. 

 

 

[Mister Woof]

Wife is a lefty but uses right hand mouse still

[Mister Woof]

Also you don't move to Europe to drive a stick if you're left handed, do you?

[FakeATF]

On 3/20/2021 at 3:14 PM, Blue4130 said:

I am left handed and have become fairly ambidextrous. The sad reality is that it's a right handed world, so we learn to adapt. 

Majority Rules ; ) 

[Tristerin]

Im left handed in a right handers world.

 

Wait...

 

Its 2021

 

I can complain and demand to be heard about this!!!!

[Tan3l6]

Not lefthander anymore, trying to be ambidextrous in most stuff.

Used to play games with mouse in the left hand, but starting from 2000s the games began to be so right hand heavy - I mean most games had shortcut keys meant for right hand. Also the regular shortcuts like ctrl-c ctrl-v are for right handers left hand, so the right handed mouse is basically the only way for using computer.

 

Only sometimes using some click games with left hand mouse... not too many games that are decent and just for mouse.

[Tan3l6]

Also - not many mice are good for both hands. At least one that has a button to swap main M1 and M2 buttons.

That's a good one - https://www.msi.com/Gaming-Gear/Clutch-GM40-GAMING-Mouse

[Fatih19]

This image is not flipped horizontally.


This is the binding of one of my game, Dishonored 2.



The mouse I use is the Logitech G300S, which has an ambidextrous design because it doesn't have thumb keys as its macros, so all the buttons are accessible to me and I don't need to uncomfortably press them with my pinky or ring finger as I would have in a right-handed mouse with thumb keys.



The extra macro keys compensates the fact that there are less 'ergonomically pressable' keys on the right side of the keyboard. The game already recognizes the 2 extra macros as mouse 4 and mouse 5, so I just bind the 4 others to seldom pressed keys such as \ or ` or = and then bind those keys to the in-game action.

[Fatih19]

On 3/22/2021 at 10:12 PM, Tristerin said:

Im left handed in a right handers world.

 

Wait...

 

Its 2021

 

I can complain and demand to be heard about this!!!!

We comprises 5-15 percent of the population. Much much smaller minority have been given much much more attention by society than us. So I'll say we go for it my dude.

[unisuj]

On 3/20/2021 at 10:31 AM, Tom09 said:

Hi left handed gamers, I was just wondering where you put your keyboard and mouse when you game and what hand do you use on your mouse and keyboard.

by using ambidexrious mice

[sub68]

this is @Energycore playing osu

 

[Digideath]

Im ambidextrous. I can use a mouse in either hand. I tend to favour mouse in the right hand while gaming on my own rig out of habit but my step mum's rig is left handed mouse so i tend to use left handed mouse when im on her computer. It doesn't really make a difference to me. I can use a mouse in either hand equally.

[programmausfall]

i have a left handed friend, he uses a Lefthand Mouse and "Flips" the  Keyboard, he uses i think I J K L but i think a brand should make a flipped Keyboard.

[Fatih19]

1 hour ago, programmausfall said:

i have a left handed friend, he uses a Lefthand Mouse and "Flips" the  Keyboard, he uses i think I J K L but i think a brand should make a flipped Keyboard.

That's the binding I used but I changed to P L ; ' because it's more natural.