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Of the two defunct mice mentioned above, the logitech (I have a couple of these) is left handed out of the box, the cherry requires the OS switch.
I also use a logitech g300 (ambidextrous mouse) this has 3 modes and is programmable. You can set one of the modes to be right handed (or left). I often use this with the g13 keypad (for gaming) while right handed (ie: expected to be used with the mouse in the right hand), as long as you don't really need the mini-joystick the main keyboard is ambidextrous. It is also programmable, so great for those mining crafting games where you can setup a chop chop move, chop chop move sequence on a single key.
Most expensive part is the packaging and if spent more on item instead of blah blah and fancy box it might be still on my desk.
RMA'ing it soon as first thought it was one i'd got new in box on flea bay so they gave me corporate B/S which don't wash with me then remembered it was one id got from yoyo tech but now gone bust so they wound there neck in and emailed me a rma form so now looking else where.
the mouse does work ok but as something that's moving and loose item on desk has to take some knocks my old logitech was solid and very well built so no excuses.
It's the best mouse I had ever seen/used.
I have observe many left-handed people use their right hand for the mouse--that was the way they were told to use it..
i think this another subject that needs to be address in classrooms that teach basic use of the computer -let the left-handed student decided which hand is more comfortable for them to use..
Leaves my dominant hand free for the numpad and one handed typing. I am able to use the mouse in either hand with about the same precision, and use regular button layout, with index finger on the right button and middle finger on the left button. As an avid gamer, what I cannot do, is WASD with the left hand, and I think that is a big reason that I am a leftmousey. I also own the Deathadder LH mouse and am very very disappointed about the hardware button layout. Now every time I boot up, I have to wait for Razers crap software to connect to the internet and change my buttons over, and if I don't have internet connectivity, then I have to change them myself manually. Pretty lame effort from Razer imo.
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I've now bought the Razer DeathAdder left-hand version and it has good support under OSX. Everything is configurable though their own driver. I can very much recommend the Razer DeathAdder to any lefty who wants to game, especially on OSX.
I am using it with the buttons "unswapped", so my ring finger is the "left button" and my index finger the "right button".
A a result I use my mouse with my left hand but have my mouse button config setup like a right-handed person. (Would be interesting to hear what proportion of lefties have their kit setup that way?)
I recently bought the Razer Deathadder (Lefty version) as I am an avid gamer Gamer too.
Sad to say I was wholly disappointed that the buttons could not be swapped.
The driver software will allow you to do this but it simply killed the mouse service on my Win7 PC when I swapped the buttons around. I had to reboot the machine and revert to my previous driver. The Razer site was not very helpful either and support appears to be limited.
My advice is to stay with an ambidextrous or standard mice.
In addition, because it is firmware, you cannot simply change this using the Windows7 mouse config, because games will ignore it and use the firmware, which is backwards.
How hard could it possibly be to get this firmware/software to work correctly?
This can be found in the 'Options' menu.
I work in an IT capacity at a major Cancer and Genetics Research facility here in the U.S. I work all day at computers which must be shared with other workers/researchers. I am left-handed. I have found, (through 15 years of doing this), that right-handed mice are not my friends. The solution, scrap the GUI all together! I have memorized all the operating system keyboard shortcuts necessary to complete the standard everyday tasks that used to leave me off balance with the right-hand mouse, (Macs sorely fall short in this department, however, (are you listening Steve Jobs). Plus, there is the added benefit of forgoing the slow, often over-bloated, GUI on most of today's modern OS's and in essence, speaking directly to the processor. What could be easier than pushing a button and having something happen. Anyway, when I get home, after a long days work, (pushing buttons, (anyone ever see George Jettson's job), I have the joy of using my own machines; A desktop, with the mouse on the left,(left-hand button configuration), and left-handed keyboard, and my laptop, where I just use the touchpad, (though, I confess, I have the default, right-handed, button scheme on the laptop). Although some may find my methods somewhat convoluted, it works for me.
I am a fighter for his left-handedness!
But at home my mouse is RH since I mainly use my laptop for gaming and somehow my left hand tires more easily. Besides, I do a lot of copy-paste at home and it's much easier using the mouse in the RH while the LH presses the keyboard shortcuts.
I do find, though, that I am as effective with the mouse with either hand, If using it right handed, though, it frees my left hand up for the important things, like writing and eating. (I know, I shouldn't eat while on my computer....danger of spills!)
I am left handed John (60 ) from New Zealand. My RH wife and I have our own Professional Picture Framing Business plus AcrylicWorld (based in our large workshop at home) where I spend much of my evenings using CorelDraw desigining shapes etc etc which are then downloaded to be cut/engraved via the Co2 Laser machine.
Some many months back I read in your news letter about LH keyboards so made enquiries but could not find a LH keyboard but one very helpfull supplier suggested Product: Microsoft Sidewinder X6 with Up to 30 programmable keys that can allow up to 90 programmable options, RH keypad unclips and replace it on LH end (30 seconds) so I purchased one $NZ80.00 and what a great product and assistance it is to myself.
My LH is now free to use the keypad/keyboard, pencil, answer the phone and do all those past difficuilt taskes now with ease, speed and enjoyment.
If my RH wife needs to use ot just simply unclip the LH key pad and replace on RH end, choice a happy lady!!
And yes I have no problem using the mouse in my right hand possibly because I have done this from the start of using computers and my wife often comments how speedy!! I am now using this new keyboard and would suggest you try this wonderfull keyboard.
Good Luck.
John N.Z.
My comment concerns Microsoft Windows. Every version I have installed, up to XP - have no option on installation to configure the computer for left-handed users. This means that one must install it right-handed and reconfigure everything once it running.
Not only that, but no Windows OS that I can remember ever come pre-loaded with left-handed cursors. So not only to I have to switch the buttons, but I have to go out on the Internet and download cursors and install them. Even after all the work of configuring the computer to be left-handed, you still have to operate the mouse cack-handed in order to login.
Notice also that the Start menu is on the left, and cannot be switched to the right. My configuration includes dragging the taskbar to the right side of the screen (where it belongs).
As for the mouse - I have no problem using a symmetrical mouse button configuration.
Are their any Operating Systems that consider that 20% of their users might be 'normal'-handed.
By using only 2 buttons you can change the configuration and change it back ready for awkward people when you have finished. I have right handed daughters and when they use my pc they think it's great they can change buttons so easily.
However, just to be confusing, I use laptop touch-pad mice with my left hand... Oh well!
My mum on the other hand (gah sorry, not intentional!) is right handed, and uses a mouse left handed, but without swapping the buttons.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=left-handed mouse
The page also shows the left-handed keyboard (yours from the Keyboard Company and mine was Ergoguys, but still the same keyboard) that I recently purchased from Wal-mart and absolutely love (although it's considerably more expensive for you...I only paid $21.84US for it)!
Funny, everyone tells lefties to cope with right-handed keyboards/keypads because it's no big deal...yet when I showed my left-handed keyboard to my daughter (who is right-handed) she said she liked the compact design of the keyboard but she could never use it because the keypad is on the "wrong side"...I said "Welcome to MY WORLD! Now you know how I've felt all these years!"
My main problem with mice is less the shape of them, as it is the size of them. I have large hands, and most mice are uncomfortably small for my hands - either of them. The one I currently own is the largest one I've been able to find with a decent price.
I've taught myself to left-mouse at home, although I haven't switched the mouse controls because I have righties using the mouse, too. I just click the buttons the same side as righties, using middle finger the most and index finger to "right" click. This gives my right hand/arm a break in the evening after working on the computer a lot at work during the day. I tend to get tendonitis when I overwork some muscle groups.
Something you might like to research is use of computer mice. I work in IT for an investments company, so I’ve been able to observe how people use these devices over many years. Most right-handed people use the mouse in their right hand, which means they have to use the left hand to answer the phone, and can’t write anything down. Strangely, most left-handed people use their left hand, too, so they have the same disadvantages, plus the need to configure the computer to swap the mouse buttons over (so the index finger controls the primary click). Also, left-mousing lefties need to remember that when something says to right-click, they need to left-click!
When mice started coming into the office, they were set up as a matter of course on the right of the computer keyboard. Since I was providing support to many right-handed people, I didn’t have the option of using the left hand, so I started with the right hand from day one. It is surprisingly easy to do - the motor control needed is not that great. This leaves me free to answer the phone or write things down, while still retaining full mouse control, and I don’t look awkward when visiting the workstation of a righty.
I have only ever seen one other right-mousing lefty; also, just one righty who regularly left-moused, and gained the same advantages (but still had to move the mouse across and swap the button configuration over). Thinking about it, the original mouse configuration by Microsoft had handedness built in, since the left button was set as primary, so this is no doubt why most righties are right-mousers.
I agree with Keith & Leslie—it’s nice to have your dominant hand free to write & eat!
As a touch-typist, I also have no problem with the number pad. I simply learned it that way, and that's they way it is.
Strangely, I have a right-handed friend that mouses with her left hand.
While the Death Adder Left-Hand mouse seems to be the only mouse I've ever seen, a quick trip to my nearby Best Buy (electronics store) unearthed not one, but TWO left-hand-using "game pads." These are pads with a small joystick at the thumb and any number of keys to be used as skill hotkeys for games. One was the Logitech G13 Gameboard (https://preview.tinyurl.com/28mrh85). The other was a Belkin Nostromo n52te SpeedPad (https://preview.tinyurl.com/278y2zj).
I was soooo tempted to buy one, but my hands are so small, that I really couldn't reach all the keys!
I certainly notice when playing online games, once I get tired, my right hand 'trigger finger' tends to wabble a fair amount causing miss-clicks probably because the muscles are a little weaker. On a similar subject, has anyone ever noticed the 'main hand' weapon is ALWAYS in the characters right hand? Maybe we should ask game designers to add in a chance to make our 'toons' left handed. I mean, we can pick hair colour, build, features, why not a mirror image so main hand can be left?
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