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Kreeeee
Profile Joined May 2004
305 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-09-03 19:52:22
September 03 2004 03:50 GMT
#1
mostly, i know you may go another way sometimes. i'm just curious.

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Poll: Which way do you drag select?
(Vote): Top-left to bottom-right
(Vote): Top-right to bottom-left
(Vote): Bottom-left to top-right
(Vote): Bottom-right to top-left
(Vote): All equally
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent.
EeKMannY
Profile Joined August 2004
United States11 Posts
September 03 2004 03:53 GMT
#2
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St3MoR
Profile Joined November 2002
Spain3256 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-09-03 03:57:18
September 03 2004 03:56 GMT
#3
Prophet in TL of the Makoto0124 ways
Esor
Profile Joined August 2004
United States245 Posts
September 03 2004 03:59 GMT
#4
(Vote): Top-left to bottom-right
(Vote): Top-right to bottom-left

Both, depending which is most sufficient at the certain circumstence.
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Veg
Profile Joined October 2002
Canada2945 Posts
September 03 2004 04:01 GMT
#5
equally T_T
asdasdas
PiNk[SpiDeR]
Profile Joined September 2004
United States89 Posts
September 03 2004 04:02 GMT
#6
I think I always drag select top-left to bottom-right
Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
September 03 2004 04:05 GMT
#7
top left -> bottom right

Just seems right to me...
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KiLLme1st
Profile Joined December 2003
United States1824 Posts
September 03 2004 04:10 GMT
#8
On September 03 2004 12:53 EeKMannY wrote:
Anyone who drags from top right to bottom left is most probably homosexual, even if they don't know it yet.


Anyone who gets off by helping people abuse to not let HovZ get top 8 in WCG online is definetly homosexual, even if they don't know it yet.
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Asta
Profile Joined October 2002
Germany3491 Posts
September 03 2004 04:11 GMT
#9
i used to do it top left to bottom right (how i always do it in windows) but then i watched _all_ progamers do it the other way so i tried it and realized it helped my mousespeed a lot because i use the little finger more. =) later on i changed the way how i hold my mouse so that the little finger doesn't touch the mouse anymore and now it's all about the ring finger.
Hot77.iEy
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Finland1486 Posts
September 03 2004 04:27 GMT
#10
Top RIGHT to bottom LEFT is the only way
-.-
orzhady
Profile Joined March 2004
Sweden180 Posts
September 03 2004 04:51 GMT
#11
i dont get it, how can you drag from top left to bottom right?:O
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
September 03 2004 05:03 GMT
#12
Um, I guess I drag in any direction that is needed but the majority of the time it's from top left to bottom right. It's the most ' natural '


Btw interesting poll.
merz
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Sweden2760 Posts
September 03 2004 05:04 GMT
#13
from top-left please.
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red.venom
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4651 Posts
September 03 2004 05:18 GMT
#14
I don't do them equally, top left would be default... But I kind of grab stuff that my mouse is close to so I am capable of making boxes in other directions--a
Broom
tfeign
Profile Joined June 2004
United States2980 Posts
September 03 2004 05:21 GMT
#15
This poll is like asking are you right handed or left handed. Right handers: from top left. Let handers: from top right.
Chobohobo
Profile Joined January 2004
United States945 Posts
September 03 2004 06:10 GMT
#16
Wouldn't it not matter much if you start at top right or top left? I think if you are selecting some units then using the minimap the faster method would be to start at top right.
Asta
Profile Joined October 2002
Germany3491 Posts
September 03 2004 06:36 GMT
#17
On September 03 2004 14:21 tfeign wrote:
This poll is like asking are you right handed or left handed. Right handers: from top left. Let handers: from top right.



obviously not.
Kreeeee
Profile Joined May 2004
305 Posts
September 03 2004 07:01 GMT
#18
i was just curious and hadn't seen anything like this before. i use an MX510 mouse so it's easier to drag top right to bottom left and i just stuck with it. never even thought about doing it the other way =/
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent.
comabreaded
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
United States2166 Posts
September 03 2004 07:18 GMT
#19
i do it all the ways. whatever i feel like. i prac all 4 ways during my initial 8 scvs.
I put the fu in fun
comabreaded
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
United States2166 Posts
September 03 2004 07:22 GMT
#20
o but when i send scvs i always grab in the fastest direction. like LT at 3 o'clock i'll always grab from left to right (starting from top or bottom)
I put the fu in fun
karelen
Profile Joined October 2003
Sweden2407 Posts
September 03 2004 07:24 GMT
#21
top left to bottom right.. why? i dont know..
zzzzzz
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
September 03 2004 07:33 GMT
#22
Always dragging to the right. Depends where my mouse is at the time
Nak Allstar.
Bobo_XIII
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States429 Posts
September 03 2004 07:35 GMT
#23
Top right from bottom left... I dunno if you guys are like this, but I don't use my arm, and I barely use my wrist when I'm selecting units or microing. I use my thumb and my ring/pinky finger to move the mouse. Draggin from top right to bottom left feels a lot more easier when I use the mouse this way
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IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
September 03 2004 08:00 GMT
#24
i hold the mouse so the front part is turned slightly towards the keyboard to the left so i move it top right to bottom left.
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hasuwar
Profile Joined April 2003
7365 Posts
September 03 2004 08:06 GMT
#25
On September 03 2004 17:00 HungZerg wrote:
i hold the mouse so the front part is turned slightly towards the keyboard to the left so i move it top right to bottom left.


me too in most cases, sometimes I go right to left
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SChasu
Profile Joined October 2003
United States1505 Posts
September 03 2004 08:06 GMT
#26
i always done top right to bottom left cuz i play left handed(im right handed though :O)
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fearus
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
China2164 Posts
September 03 2004 09:15 GMT
#27
Theoritically, the best way should be relative to where your units are to your mouse, you might be able to squeeze are couple more apms out of it. =)
bisu fanboy
VdP]EpiphaNy
Profile Joined March 2004
United Kingdom992 Posts
September 03 2004 09:40 GMT
#28
bottom left to top right is the most natural easy movement for right handed people, vice versa horizontally for lefties.
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fuqin-suck
Profile Joined February 2003
United States142 Posts
September 03 2004 11:18 GMT
#29
top left to bottom right just always seemed right to me.
but if you can utilize multiple ways of dragging a box, thats sort of like being ambidextrous. i wish i could do that, even if it speeded up certain actions by fractions of a second.
Refrain[FriZ]
Profile Joined June 2003
Canada4337 Posts
September 03 2004 11:34 GMT
#30
it depends.. i use both right to down and down to up left
nortydog
Profile Joined December 2003
Australia3067 Posts
September 03 2004 12:02 GMT
#31
I just tested this out on a micro map I mainly use Top-left to bottom-right but I can adapt to anything
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Gryffindor_us
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States5606 Posts
September 03 2004 13:31 GMT
#32
I can't use top left to bottom right at all as efficiently as top right to bottom left. It's to writing with your left hand when you're right handed. I'm right handed by the way.
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NeverTheEndlessWiz
Profile Joined November 2003
Singapore827 Posts
September 03 2004 14:17 GMT
#33
top right to bottom left

right hander =P
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OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
September 03 2004 14:49 GMT
#34
why how do you do top right bottom left thats crazy ~_~
troi oi thang map nai!!!
choader
Profile Joined June 2003
United States487 Posts
September 03 2004 14:51 GMT
#35
On September 03 2004 17:06 SS-guy wrote:
i always done top right to bottom left cuz i play left handed(im right handed though :O)


Really? That's amazing.. I've tried playing left handed and i got like 30 apm :D
Failure by design.
iLoveLulu
Profile Joined August 2004
Venezuela457 Posts
September 03 2004 15:10 GMT
#36
On September 03 2004 13:01 Veg wrote:
equally T_T


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jacen
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Austria3644 Posts
September 03 2004 16:36 GMT
#37
Top-right to bottom-left
under any fucking circumstances
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gravity
Profile Joined March 2004
Australia1988 Posts
September 03 2004 17:59 GMT
#38
Mostly top-left to bottom-right, but I do all of them sometimes.
Chris307
Profile Joined June 2004
3095 Posts
September 03 2004 22:17 GMT
#39
Wow, I've never even paid attention to this.
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[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
September 03 2004 22:31 GMT
#40
me either.... this was a good poll lol. but im top left to bottom right... left to right in most cases but sometimes it changes i guess
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Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
September 03 2004 22:36 GMT
#41
top right to bottom left

but i'm left handed
why so 진지해?
MaGnIfIcA
Profile Joined October 2002
Norway2312 Posts
September 03 2004 22:36 GMT
#42
Top Right to Bottom Left and i use my right hand
Wannabe sMB member yo, so spankable-.-v;;
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