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ROOTdrewbie
Canada1392 Posts
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Agh
United States1009 Posts
drewbinator i am disappoint. meh you can try but it's probably too late also obligatory naniwa vid, incase you've never seen or didnt know | ||
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kyarisan
United States347 Posts
 hellow fellow southpaw :Dsecondly I don't think mouse accuracy would be better with your left hand, not nearly as much as having a decent mouse with proper settings would. i don't think your body can be wired specifically so that you have a better "mouse movement" with your left hand than your right evne if you are left handed, handedness just represents a tendency that your body feels more comfortable with initially doing things with, and you can be trained against your own handedness if you put enough effort into it. however with a system as complex as a computer i don't think the body has a "handedness" for that, but i could be wrong. in the end though i think just mass gaming is a more effective way to train your brain to be efficient at something than whichever tendency you happen to have *shrug* | ||
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Deleted_143
Australia256 Posts
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Barett
Canada454 Posts
As for catching back up, I would say it would take quite a while. If you've been playing Starcraft for say 10 years, It would probably take you around a year or so to get fully back to comfortable. Its probably gotten quite normal to play with your wrong hand. This is only my natural thought on this subject though. I know nothing about Biology. | ||
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Alou
United States3748 Posts
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Ryusei-R1
United States2106 Posts
On the other hand, you're still pretty damn good, even with using your weaker hand. So unless you have the spare time to switch hands, might as well stick with right handed mousing. | ||
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green.at
Austria1459 Posts
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Herculix
United States946 Posts
i decided to just stick with what's comfortable to me because not only do you have to learn to use a mouse with your left hand, you have to use a keyboard with your right which just seems so foreign and awkward to me. and yes, everything that involves dexterity has a 'handedness' which includes mouse and keyboard. | ||
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TheFrankOne
United States667 Posts
Your hands have programmed themselves to work the keyboard with one and the mouse with the other. Of course, you definitely should give it a try. | ||
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HollowLord
United States3862 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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matthras
Australia32 Posts
I can't say I know too much about brain development, but when you're learning and training something, your brain develops extra neurons. Since you're effectively switching sides, you're switching to the different side of the brain for those functions (since the right side of the brain controls the left side of your body and vice versa), which would explain the need for extra practising. I do recall Artosis mentioning in a comment on one of his FPVoDs on Youtube a while back that his mouse accuracy comes from years of gaming. I'm also left handed but I've stuck to the conventional right handed mouse and quite frankly the thought of switching hasn't really occurred to me. | ||
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TheDoK666
France179 Posts
I did that to improve my personality and myself in general , so i think you can do this for perfomance too but this canbe , at first, somethin to feel about yourself. Anyway now you got this in mind, you can never know if you don't switch and it will haunt you forever... but stay on touch with us about that, it's could be cool | ||
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Chux
Peru255 Posts
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TheRPGAddict
United States1403 Posts
I can kinda relate this to the sport I play. I play golf, at a fairly high level high school wise. I golf right handed despite being left handed because when I was young manufacturers rarely sold left handed clubs and if they did, they were much more expensive, especially for juniors, so I just learned how to golf right handed. However, professionals I see now tell me it was a good move because obviously the left hand if the leading hand in the golf swing on the way down which can lead to a forward shaft lean at impact. This causes me to have more consistent above average ball-striking because I have less of a tendency to "scoop" at the ball. In terms of Starcraft, playing "right handed" may actually be more beneficial because the keyboard hand aka your left and dominant hand could be seen as the more important of the two and the "leading" hand in Starcraft. | ||
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yeti
United States258 Posts
I have tried switching to a lefty mouse a few weeks back, and proceeded to drop 10 games. Yeah I probably didn't give it enough time to develop lefty mouse memory, but it was really the right hand that was messing me up. If you game with a left hand mouse, your right has to take over the keyboard, and lets face it, you don't know how to hotkey with your right hand. The keyboard is hand-specific more than the mouse. Yeah you could create custom hotkeys to fit your right hand, but i dont know if you could switch the control button. In order to assign a control group with your right hand, you need to press control with your thumb instead of pinky (or at least I always using pinky). This was the most confusing thing when I first switched, and I just could not deal with it. Besides I always take pride in my hotkeying ability. I figure what I lose in mouse control, I gain in keyboard control. To be honest my lefty trust in the keyboard over the mouse is what made me into the macro player I am today. | ||
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whoso
Germany523 Posts
On December 26 2010 08:14 Chux wrote: I'm left handed too! And i've been experimenting with switching hands for everything else besides SC2 so my right hand doesn't get too tired in the day.. anyways, the results: my leftie got used to the mouse pretty fast and now i feel pretty comfortable working that way.. the problem is my right hand. It just does not wanna get used to the keyboard shorcuts (that i use a lot, btw). I just keep using both mouse and keyboard with the right hand (releasing the mouse,pressing ctrl+V,going back to the mouse, for example) and it's driving me crazy. (I've been doing that for 2 weeks already and still..) yeah this. ur left hand might get used to the mouse pretty fast, but it will certainly take a ton of time to get your right hand to handle the keyboard as fast and smooth as necessary. also, i think it might actually be an advantage to have the stronger hand on the keyboard, where you usually spend most of your apm. sc2 is not a shooter after all, where aiming is like everything. | ||
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Backpack
United States1776 Posts
On December 26 2010 08:11 HollowLord wrote: I'm fairly certain Nazgul's left-handed, isn't he? Yea, he plays with the mouse in his left hand as well. | ||
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Flexx
United States87 Posts
The bottom line is that your CNS learns through constant and repetitive practice. Movement patterns (muscle memory) are hardwired into your brain. It will not be simply a matter of weeks, or months before you BEGIN to play normally again.. it will be much, much longer. Infact, I'm pretty willing to believe that since you have used a computer (and played SC2) for so long right handed, achieving the same level of manual dexterity if you switch will be pretty much impossible. There is no reason for your right hand dexterity ceiling to be hindered simply due to you being left handed. If nothing else, your left hand is actually more dexterous than your right, and thus you should technically be able to use the keyboard faster and more accurately than right handed players. | ||
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