So, I was browsing the local used ads and saw that someone was selling a left-handed Razer mouse for $55. I laughed at the ad, telling my brother that it'll never sell since left-handed mice are not very common... but it made me think, is it really that rare? How rare is it?

I'm a lefty myself, but since I've started using computers I've always been using a right-handed mouse and I'm used to it. I probably couldn't get used to left-handed even if I tried, it's just weird. It would cause lots of problems with my left hand as well since I'm used to the WASD controls.

Generally, which kind of mouse do you use? Left-handed or right-handed?

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Right-handed mouse or left-handed mouse?

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Right-handed mouse
Left-handed mouse

My mouse can be used on both sides.. (Razer Orochi)

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Can be, but on which side do you tend to use it?

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I have the orochi too! Well since i'm right handed... >.>

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lefthanded for writing/drawing but ambi for pretty much anything else... XD

using Logitech MX518, you can't find it no more.. :S

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Aguante los zurdos :D

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grande gato por hacerme la segunda! :D

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I grew up using a middle-handed mouse.

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I prefer ambidextrous(?) mice.

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But do you use it with both hands or do you have a preference?

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I use it with my right hand. I just don't like right handed mice.

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Shouldn't your poll have included dominant hand options?

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I'm left-handed, but I use both hands for some things, the right hand for some other things, and the left hand for some other things. I don't really need a left-handed mouse, so I'm ok with a conventional one. Still, I have used my right-handed mouse in the past with the left hand and I could use it just fine.

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No poll option for both? What about the gripping-hand?

My friend is left-handed and mouses right-handed.

I'm right-handed, but my right hand was crushed in a door when I was a teenager, so it's difficult to use for extended periods of time. So, on PC I mouse right-handed, and on my mac I mouse left-handed, to even things out.

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Im right hand, so I use left hand mouse -.-

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im right handed and using righ handed mouse, dont know if there are that many left handed mouses but you can find ambidextrous mouses like steelseries sensei, roccat kova, roccat kiro (this one has movable side parts), atlest those are the ones i know since i had done some research recently to buy a new mouse. So if you are left handed you can get a ambidextrous mouse.

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lefthanded mouse, also i dont use wsad, i use tgfh so i can reach space with my right thumb

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Must be a pain to reconfigure all the keys when playing a MMORPG or similar games which have a billion keyboard shortcuts. :P

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nah im used to doing keys before playing games for the first time. only time its an issue is on rare occasion when a game doesnt allow certain keys to be rebound, then i get a refund.

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I see how that can be a problem. Some games don't even allow rebinding of any keys at all. Hate them.

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I thought IJKL was pretty standard for right hand on keyboard, how come you've settled with TFGH?

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because it has better acess to the number keys and tab,shift alt and ctrl

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imagine having a left hand house and a french keyboard, instead of wasd they have zqsd in that place...yeah it sounds fine because you don't look down but if you need to write or enter a menu with a key it's all nuts

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It's my case. That's the reason/utility of rebinding menu!
AS they regularly not working properly even on AAA games, i have as well a software to modify them.

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i don't see the problem with wasd or zqsd. The key are exactly in the same place, only the letter change.

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I use the mouse in lefthand so right hand on keyboard will use numeric pad or the oklm

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sorry haven't got time for special snowflakes

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As a lefty I tried swapping my ambidextrous wireless mouse and I really liked it. I would have tried to keep it, but my right hand does not work the same as my left controlling with the keyboard.

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I'm another lefty that uses a right-handed mouse. We didn't really have an option when I first started (back in the stone age) so I've always made do.

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Exactly. Back in the days of good old reliable trackball mice. Actually, I'm pretty sure the mouse was ambidextrous but back in ye olde days I didn't know shit about "options" and "computer settings" so never even know that mice buttons could be "flipped". :P

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my brother's the same way. growing up, just about everything was geared toward right-handedness and he made do. he's now a surgeon who operates with his right hand, because even that is geared toward right-handers, and it's easier for him to operate with his right hand than to have operating procedures (and staff) recalibrated for his left

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i'm also LH and learn to use mice with my lef hand.
it doesn't matter if it's a rh-mouse despite me missing all the thumb buttons.

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I thought I'd use thumb buttons much more when I bought my mouse, turns out it's pretty much just really good for MMORPGs. So much skills to keybind. D:

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Right hand trackball since my old ambi trackball bit the dust after a short 8 years.

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i use my left hand, but tend to stick w. cheap-ass non-ergo mice. Anything 'ergonimic' runs a high risk of being highly uncomfortable and possibly making me press all the side finger buttons w. my palm:<

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I'm right-handed and I've always used a right-handed mouse.

My 6-year old son is a lefty (although he's ambidextrous for lots of things), but I'm teaching him to use a right-handed mouse. I think it'll make it easier for him in the future.

(Of course, in his lifetime mice will probably become obsolete, because everything will be VR and/or touchscreen...)

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Of course, in his lifetime mice will probably become obsolete, because everything will be VR and/or touchscreen

Interesting point. I never really thought of it.

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It must be great to be left handed and use a left handed mouse and a gaming keypad (e.g. Logitech G13) with the right hand, instead of awkward WASD. As a right handed person I can only say that the reverse setup is indeed great.

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Right hand because I am right handed

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Ambidextrous. Use it left-handed.

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ASUS ROG Gladius

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A laptop mousepad c;

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my wife is left-handed but has always used a mouse with her right hand, even back when she had a kensington orbit which is symmetrical so would have been just as good on the left. she told me once she has no interest in using a mouse with her left hand because it works just fine with her right.

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Ergonomics, especially with mice, are the bane of lefties.
I've never seen a left handed mouse.
Every store I've talked to refuses to order them.
I've tried contacting the manufacturers, but all I've gotten a reply from refuse to sell to end uses, they only want retailers.

I'd really love a left handed gamer mouse some day, but it doesn't seem to be likely any time soon.

Also, all publishers that have hard coded wasd controls should be strapped to the rack for at least 12 hours. That garbage is painful for me, and so 1970s non-configurable keys. Something I thought went away decades ago and for some reason seems to be coming back.
Ah well, the pain of only being about 15% of the gaming & computer market I guess.

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Evoluent do a lefty and sell directly to the public. They aren't cheap, but I got my (older right-handed model) mouse from there after using one at a workplace.

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Awesome! I've saved the link and will check it out later. :)

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