How many southpaws are there?

[Daniel_Bingamon]

..a very short-sighted eye....

I'm blind in the left eye yet left handed. I don't change the mouse settings either but I do use it on the left.

I also prefer string instruments on the left but I don't like the strings reversed.

[Thomaston]

I write, throw, and shoot rifles left handed.
But I bat and play all instruments right handed.

[djm]

Um ... so this rifle-throwing stuff, is that big in 'Bamy?

djm

[Thomaston]

Why else would you put a bayonet on them?

(I actually don't even shoot guns; I've never been big on hunting. But if I had to shoot, it would be left handed.)

[SteveShaw]

I have taught myself, so as not to annoy right-handed computer users*, to use the mouse with either hand with equal felicity. I don't change the mouse settings either. I consider this to be the greatest achievement of my already illustrious life.

*I'm lying. The real reason I did it was because I got repetitive strain injury in my left wrist.

Gasp!!!! I do this, too!!!! It IS an achievement, for which you should be commended!

Question: Did you get the RSI after using the mouse leftie with the settings changed so that the right mouse button was the main one?

I think it's more ergonomically sound to use a mouse rightie with the "left" or main button switched to the right, so that you hold your hand at an angle to press it. If you use it leftie, then you leave the default settings alone so that it's still the left button that is the main one.

If your hand is at an angle over the mouse, you don't have to lift your forefinger at that awkward angle . . . it just rests at an angle over the top of the mouse to operate the wheel or press the left key easily.

I never altered the mouse settings at all, so as not to incur the wrath of she who must be obeyed (who's right-handed). I think the problem arose as a result of sloppy habits to be honest. Switching to the other hand to use the mouse took very little effort to adapt, and after a few weeks the problem subsided and now I try not to slouch around at the keyboard quite so much.

[dwest]

Born a lefty, forced right, do both, same for the wife.

[Martin Milner]

John McCain and Barack Obama write left handed.

Joe Biden writes right handed.

I've yet to see Sarah Palin writing.

[dwest]

I've yet to see Sarah Palin writing.

If only she could....

[Daniel_Bingamon]

Left-handed Presidents:
James Garfield
Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman

Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton

The line of four left-handed presidents in a row was then interrupted by George W Bush.

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BTW Steve, I love to annoy right-handed computer users.
Even though I don't alter the settings, simply moving the mouse to the left-hand side is enough to bring them unrest.

Hendrix played the Guitar left-handed but did not reverse the strings.

[Jack]

I am right-handed, because I am a normal person.

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[SteveShaw]

BTW Steve, I love to annoy right-handed computer users.
Even though I don't alter the settings, simply moving the mouse to the left-hand side is enough to bring them unrest.

Heheh. Rude ones move the mouse and mat right back over in a huff. Polite ones do the contortionist thing and lean over with their right arm across the keyboard.

[Jack]

One of my bosses types with a foreign keyboard which is also in another language, and every time I'm called to do something on her computer I nearly die. It's SO. UNBELIEVABLY. DIFFICULT. when the keys are not where you expect them to be.

It might also be a left-handed keyboard, because she is left-handed (I hadn't thought of that).

[buddhu]

...but oddly, I do shoot pool left-handed.

Yay! Same as that. Left handed for pool and archery. R/h for everything else so far.

[SteveShaw]

so far

[SteveShaw]

so far