Can you use a computer mouse with your "wrong" hand?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
November 27, 2018 8:00am CST
I know it's not the same as handwriting, but I find it impossible to use a computer mouse with the hand I don't write with. I am left-handed - there is nothing physically wrong with my right hand, but it just doesn't want to know when it comes to a whole lot of things, including mouse manipulation.
When I use a "public" computer at either library where I work, my colleagues always know that I've been there because the mouse will have switched to the left side of the keypad - and for some reason I never remember to put it back!
The photo is not of my hand but a stock photo taken from a copyright-free source. I don't do what this guy does and use two fingers for the left and right buttons. Instead, I hold the mouse at an angle and use my index finger for both buttons. This has always struck me as the natural thing to do.
Tell me - am I normal in this, or ever so slightly odd?
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8 responses
@JESSY3236 (19949)
• United States
27 Nov 18
I'm right handed. Never tried the computer mouse with my left hand. But I play a clarinet which requires both hands. I use both fingers on the buttons.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
27 Nov 18
I use right hand on mouse though I am lefthanded. I also just use one index finger.
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@youless (112497)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Nov 18
I am a right-handed person. However, I use the mouse with my left hand. I got used to it and I found it better. As I can use my right hand to write or do something else, meanwhile I can still control my computer with my left hand. It is very efficient
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
27 Nov 18
I am right-handed but a few years ago my shoulder and arm started to hurt like crazy and I was forced to move my mouse with my left hand. At first it was hard and awkward but eventually I was able to do it and now I switch back and forth so that I don't strain either hand.
@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
27 Nov 18
No, I never tried to use the mouse and left hand, it's really hard,
@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
27 Nov 18
Though I write with right hand, there are many other things which I can do at ease with both hands. I mostly use mouse with my left. And this post brings me to notice that.