Poll: How do you use your mouse? (Poll request)

[gropingmantis]

Errrm thumb only?

Trackball ruelzz!

 

[gronf]

Trackball ruelzz!

About as much as corduroy pants and crocs.

 

[gropingmantis]

Whats wrong with my cords and crocs combo?

 

[SeraphX]

hand and wrist, mouse is only ever lifted for charging or cleaning lol

 

[Randomface74]

The question isn't clearly written. It should be:

What is your pivot?
- Palm
- Elbow

 

[nHook]

I 'claw-grip' the mouse, with just a bit of my palm barely touching and my wrist firmly on the mat hardly moving. So, about 90% hand(finger) movement.

Exactly the same

I call it the death grip.

 

[Sunbed]

The question isn't clearly written. It should be:

What is your pivot?
- Palm
- Elbow

This is better. Include shoulder though because I use my whole arm (low sens!)

Although better still would be what distance do you use per 360 spin in FPS.

 

[Evilsod]

better than the rat ¬_¬

Is that coming from personal experience?

 

[[timko]]

is this a trick question - the hand moves by the action of the wrist, how can you move you hand without moving your wrist? Is the poll meant to read hand / arm / hand&arm? or elbow / wrist / wrist+elbow?

The question isn't clearly written. It should be:

What is your pivot?
- Palm
- Elbow

I too was scratching my head at the options. However, I think I can further extend the options given above with finger joints and also shoulder joint.

The finger joints only works if your wrist is planted and you use the finger joints to move the mouse, but that limits you to mostly up and down motion. Left to right is possible if you use your thumb joint in this case and you rotate the mouse (horizontally, NOT tilting it) but mostly this movement would be achieved by moving the wrist joint instead.

Shoulder joint would probably come into play for when you need to make a really large sudden movement, your sensitivity is set too low, your mouse DPI is too low or an combination of some or all of the previous.

Also, unless the other person has the same mouse DPI setting as you, asking what sensitivity setting they have in a game to compare to your own doesn't mean much. Here's an example, Player A and B both set their in game mouse sensitivity to max. However, Player A has a mouse that only does 450dpi whereas Player B has one that can go upto 3500dpi. Player A still has to move his mouse a lot more to achieve the same motion that Player B gets by slightly nudging his mouse.

 

[lemoon]

Wrist movement most, Hand movement sometimes.

 

[Tefal]

The finger joints only works if your wrist is planted and you use the finger joints to move the mouse, but that limits you to mostly up and down motion. Left to right is possible if you use your thumb joint in this case and you rotate the mouse (horizontally, NOT tilting it) but mostly this movement would be achieved by moving the wrist joint instead.

for horizontal movement you just "pass" your mouse from little finger to thumb.

often picking it u pfor the return.

One "pass" so my thumb moving under my palm to move the mouse far to the right is about exactly the width of my screen on the desk top, but in game = about a 360 degree spin, a small more comfortable half pass/twitch gets me a perfect 180

 

[Sunbed]

Also, unless the other person has the same mouse DPI setting as you, asking what sensitivity setting they have in a game to compare to your own doesn't mean much. Here's an example, Player A and B both set their in game mouse sensitivity to max. However, Player A has a mouse that only does 450dpi whereas Player B has one that can go upto 3500dpi. Player A still has to move his mouse a lot more to achieve the same motion that Player B gets by slightly nudging his mouse.

This is why distance per 360 deg spin is best measurement of sensitivity.

Mine is somewhere between 50 and 70 cm

 

[[timko]]

for horizontal movement you just "pass" your mouse from little finger to thumb.

For really quick movements I sometimes do this too

 

[Tefal]

This is why distance per 360 deg spin is best measurement of sensitivity.

Mine is somewhere between 50 and 70 cm

just tested in bc2 2.3cm sideways movement for a 360

 

[Tyrone77]

Wrist for me.

Sometimes I like to switch hands so it feels like someone else is playing

 

[topgun06]

Voted for wrist movement only. This is the case, but occasionally I move my hand too... I think

 

[Tefal]

This is why distance per 360 deg spin is best measurement of sensitivity.

Mine is somewhere between 50 and 70 cm

actually coming back to this how the hell can you play where a 360 is 50-70 cm


I think my arm only reach about 60-70 cm outwards while still comfortably pointing my hand forwards.

 

[MumboJumbo]

The question really isn't complicated. It's quite clear, if you are a wrist user you move the mouse almost exclusively via wrist and finger movements. If you aren't then you are moving your hand via your elbow. IF YOU DO BOTH, then you tick the both box :O

I'm sorry I didn't write a full work up of how all the joints work to do this but the vast majority have worked it out, you're just being pedantic.


Interesting results either way.

 

[Sunbed]

actually coming back to this how the hell can you play where a 360 is 50-70 cm


I think my arm only reach about 60-70 cm outwards while still comfortably pointing my hand forwards.

You just get used to picking the mouse up and dragging it really fast. My mat is 45cm wide, so I can almost get a 180 spin from the centre of the mat to the edge. The total amount of times in-game when you actually need to do a 180 spin is probably less than you'd think, and you get the advantage of being very precise

 

[LordSplodge]

Wrist. Anything else is too much effort.