3 Sep
2018
3 Sep
'18
7:14 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Paul Winalski wrote:
On 9/1/18, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
wrote:
At the risk of making a 'me too' post (especially these days) I am also
left handed and trained myself to use a mouse right handed for both of the
reasons you mention.
Left handedness is very well studied so I wondered if there were any
studies on this.
While looking I found one that argues that numeric keypads and using the
mouse on the right don't mix. Maybe time to run with a keyboard with no
numeric keypad again.[1]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14985137
[1] As a leftie it's on the wrong side anyway.
Rob
Oh, and I also trained myself to use a mouse in my left hand (in
right-hand mode, and in my SunOS days too!) which is apparently quite
common amongst the righties; after all, why waste a perfectly good hand?
It's hilarious watching someone letting go of the mouse to write something
down, then back to the mouse again...
I'm left-handed but I trained myself to use a mouse in my right hand,
for the reason you point out--I still have my dominant hand free to
write things down. It also means that when I'm using someone else's
machine, most of the time their mouse is configured the way I'm used
to.