Left handed gamers?

I'm a leftie but I mouse right hand, just grew up that way as our family shared PC always had the mouse on the right so I just learnt to use it
 
RyanF said:
I'm a leftie but I mouse right hand, just grew up that way as our family shared PC always had the mouse on the right so I just learnt to use it
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Ditto.

I started off with the mouse in my left hand, but over time the habit died off because rearranging workstations all the time got annoying, fast. Learning to use the mouse in my right hand predated my PC gaming phase though, so I guess it's different depending on how/when you learnt. It would take me a long time to learn to use the mouse in my left hand now.

TBH though, I'm not a proper leftie. I write left handed, but in most tasks I'm ambidextrous or right-handed. In a lot of tasks, not being left handed is just less hassle in a right handed world.
 
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I'm totally left handed but just use a mouse and WASD as normal. Might explain why I'm awful at FPS!

Joking aside I don't think I'd get on very well with a left hand PC set up.
 
Lefty here. Do everything* left handed. Write, golf, fish, throw, eat, etc.

*Except game on the PC.

Weird when I think about it. But probably closely linked to be being a lazy *******. :)
 
satchef1 said:
Ditto.

I started off with the mouse in my left hand, but over time the habit died off because rearranging workstations all the time got annoying, fast. Learning to use the mouse in my right hand predated my PC gaming phase though, so I guess it's different depending on how/when you learnt. It would take me a long time to learn to use the mouse in my left hand now.

TBH though, I'm not a proper leftie. I write left handed, but in most tasks I'm ambidextrous or right-handed. In a lot of tasks, not being left handed is just less hassle in a right handed world.
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As above, exactly. Power to US.
 
simisker said:
I don't play games often these days, but as a leftie that had to make do with keyboards for decades, one of the best bits of kit I bought was an Ideazon Fang for right-hand use. Ambidextrous, and no remapping required, most of the time.

Of course, like all good leftie-helping solutions, it didn't sell well and is long since discontinued :(
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This. I bought a spare once I realised how dependant I'd become on it :D. There are other ambidextrous keypads around if you look.
 
There are, of course, degrees of "handedness" and I know some people are relatively comfortable learning to use many routine items in their other hand. I'm heavily left-dominant, though, and find it very difficult to do much that requires co-ordination with my right hand.

So for me it's always been and always will be mouse in the left hand. I find the most comfortable key setup is then using the arrow keys for movement, numpad for weapon/skill selection, jump and reload, right crtl for crouch, the ins/del/home/etc keys for interactions, and so on.

Which is why it's kind of a deal-breaker when I find the odd game that won't let me bind any of those keys (most often del, etc, but sometimes the keypad as well). That set-up is so ingrained it is incredibly difficult to switch to anything else.

It's that reason I'll not be buying The Phantom Pain after my experience with Ground Zeroes. Really disappointed that almost all of my favoured keys are unbindable in that game. :(
 
Left hand on mouse, r/hand on arrow keys with little finger on Numpad 0,1,2, etc.

6 keys in front of your fingers - delete ,end, page down etc

I use the numpad block & right Cntrl/ Shift for everything so no lurching over the keyboard
 
I'm lefty, and use a left-handed control scheme based around using the arrow keys for movement, and using the mouse left-handed (though I keep the mouse buttons the same as right handed).

Finding decent mice is tricky - most of the really decent gaming mice are right handed, but I now use a Steel Series Sensei which is ambidextrous (though the side button placement isn't that good for me).

I use a Corsair K70 Cherry brown mechanical keyboard which I find is the best compromise between noise, typing and gaming.

It really, really annoys me when games lock off the arrow keys or keys on the right side of the keyboard so I can't rebind them. It seems like many developers just don't consider that some people aren't right handed, and of course there are people with disabilities that can't use normal WASD bindings either.
 
I'm a leftie, but use the mouse right-handed. People always ask me why, but it's what I've used since day one and just adapted. It was the same with using scissors at school, as my school had no lefthanded ones, so I had to learn to cut with my right hand. Fortunately I didn't have to change writing from my left, as i don think they could enforce that, but I know some schools used to a number of years ago. But going back to use my left hand for the mouse, now seems foreign to me, and almost like using my right hand to write.
 
I've used a couple of razer left handed mice but had issues with them breaking rather quickly so I just tend to use a neutral shaped mouse like my current steelseries sensei pro. For the keyboard I just use a regular one but map movement to the cursor keys and as many actions as possible to home, insert, delete, page up etc.
 
Func KB-460 and a Steelseries Sensei RAW. I hate the mouse though, the rubber pads on the bottom came off within weeks. I only ever buy ambidextruous mice since I use it left-handed when playing games with mouse & keyboard, otherwise I use it right handed because I use my PC from my bed (I'm lazy + watch movies, etc from bed) and the mouse can only be reached by the right hand. I mostly use controllers to play games these days since I don't have a proper desk and my screen is too big for me to sit right in front of it. Plus I can play from my bed, the keyboard doesn't reach that far.

As far as set-ups in games go, I just use the normal wasd set up. Pinkie on the spacebar or c/v and thumb on control. On the rare occasion it can get uncomfortable like trying to press x or a number on the number line, but I'm fine with it mostly. I also happen to be terrible at multiplayer FPS, coincidence?

IMO we need more ambidextrous gaming mice, I used to have the awesome Logitech G300, best ambi mouse ever. Unfortunately they don't sell anything like it anymore :( Plus the single-handed mice look horrible, I do have OCD so non-symmetrical mice are hideous to me. Options are always good, we need mice that both lefties and righties can use!
 
I'm leftie but have no issues at all using WASD with my left hand and mouse in the right.

I use a Logitech Performance MX in both left and right hand perfectly (find it comfortable in both) and have done so with mice for many years. But most of the time these days I use a wireless 360 controller for gaining as it's far more comfortable for long play times.

I can do things pretty evenly with both hands but writing is 100% left hand only. If I use my my right it looks like a two year old wrote it.
 
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Real leftie here ;) Have both the Razer leftie mice (Naga/DeathAdder) and use the numpad 8,4,5,6 instead of traditional WASD. All the surrounding keys inc arrows and pgup/dn etc for the other bindings.
Can be a bit of pain as some games have limited rebinding options. Numpad Enter being a particular offender so I have that mapped to space (jump!) via registry which helps in a few games.
 
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