If you are a lefty poll

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Is your mouse on the left hand side of your keyboard?

Apparently I can't add the poll until I post this so hold on.

[bluelikejazz]

I have switched back and forth. But I find it easier to get used to using it on the right side all the time so I don't have to switch when I use another computer.

Also, writing is the only thing I do with my left hand. Throw a ball, brush my teeth, brush my hair, use the mouse, etc is all with my right hand.

[jgleespen]

I am a lefty and my work mouse is usually on the right, but if I am doing a large amount of mousing, I will use both left and right handed mice.

[Deleted]

Ok, my hypothesis is that maybe older lefties switch the mouse over whereas those of us who used computers a lot as teens do not.

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I'm not a lefty btw, this was just inspired by observing people.

[womet]

My mouse is on the left. And I hate it when someone uses my office and doesn't put my mouse back on the left side.

[UMaineTeach]

I share a computer with 8 other people, the mouse is on the right.
But I have adapted.


I track pad with either hand.

[SJ]

May 11, 2012 13:59:29 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

Also, writing is the only thing I do with my left hand. Throw a ball, brush my teeth, brush my hair, use the mouse, etc is all with my right hand.

Same here. I write with my left hand but everything else is right hand.

[victoria1212]

Yes, mouse is on the left. I always find it funny when someone else sits at my work computer and they are bt sure what to do.

[njohnson1972]

This is going to show my age, but I used computers before they had a mouse. And when the mouse came out, they were only really designed right-handed. So I adjusted. I still mouse right-handed.

[degal99]

I just want to be a SS and add something to the conversation! DH is left-handed and he uses his mouse on the right. A co-worker, who's about twice me age, does switch the mouse to the left side for use.

[heliocentric]

Left at work because of ergonomic issues. Right at home. I had always done right until I switched at work. Now I can do either without thinking.

[Deleted]

If I use a mouse it's always on the right.

[milkrations]

My mouse is on the right. I grew up using the mouse on the left but H is right handed and was not able to adapt to having the mouse on the left. I was able to make the switch easily and I kind of like it. It frees my left hand to take notes while scrolling through something on screen.

[rex]

I don't have a mouse, but back in the day when I did, it was on my right side.

I grew up with all righties so it was always too much of a pain to switch it so I got used to it.

[chia]

Right. I like having my left free to write.


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[drloretta]

I don't have one with this computer, but when I was working I would switch back and forth from right to left.

[Doctorblue]

Mouse with the right hand, trackpad with the left.

[Jinx]

Mouse on the left at work and on the right at home. Lefties are usually ambidextrous because we've been forced to conform to doing things right-handed. Like others have mentioned I can switch hands for most tasks except writing.

[nannersp]

May 11, 2012 16:55:57 GMT -5 @kizmet said:

I'm a lefty but I can't mouse left handed. I cut right handed too because most scissors are meant for righties and they hurt my left hand.

Ditto this exactly!

[mokes]

On the right side ... huh, I never thought about that before

[slug*bug]

May 11, 2012 14:55:57 GMT -5 SJ said:

May 11, 2012 13:59:29 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

Also, writing is the only thing I do with my left hand. Throw a ball, brush my teeth, brush my hair, use the mouse, etc is all with my right hand.

Same here. I write with my left hand but everything else is right hand.

This is pretty much me, too: I can do several things with either hand, but most things (even cutting things with scissors) are all right hand.

[cjeanette]

I use my right hand for the mouse, everything else left. I have been using a computer since I was 4 so I think it was like learning to play the violin. It was taught to me "backwards".

[milkrations]

May 12, 2012 20:06:10 GMT -5 Jinx said:

Mouse on the left at work and on the right at home. Lefties are usually ambidextrous because we've been forced to conform to doing things right-handed. Like others have mentioned I can switch hands for most tasks except writing.

I do a very poor job at passing as ambidextrous. You should see me use a can opener - it's pretty funny looking. I've adapted in all sorts of ways to a right-handed world but look clumsy doing it. But, I am very strongly left-oriented; left-handed, left-legged, left-eyed. You should have seen me in dance class as a kid, I would always start out going left when everyone else was going right. My teacher would put me on the side where I wouldn't bump into anyone when I did this.

[agnes]

H's grandmother is a lefty. She puts her mouse on the left.

My great aunt is a lefty. She puts her mouse on the right.

[citygirl2012]

Lefty with mouse on right side. I also wear my watch on my right hand and do get occasional comments about it.

[nicksmom]

My mouse is currently on the right. In the past it has been on the left and I have switched the function of the mouse buttons, this really messes people up.

[foodie2012]

I think I adapted to the right side, because computers with mouses came out when I was in grade school. The mouse was on the right side and we couldn't move it (wire wasn't long enough to switch sides), so I just learned that way. Using the mouse with my left hand just feels weird now.