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Asking left-handed players: what are your keybindings?

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Fri, 07/17/2015 - 01:23
Akinesia's picture
Akinesia

I'm not left handed myself. The idea came up after thinking about left-hand mice, and now I'd like to know-- how does the other half live!?

(Figured this went in The Arsenal because it involves play style things.)
edit: moved from the Arsenal to General Discussion.
edit?: I REALLY thought I moved this.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 02:49
#1
Krakob's picture
Krakob

I think you'd be better off posting in General Discussion. It's a larger crowd and the arsenal is primarily for discussing gear.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:20
#2
Traevelliath's picture
Traevelliath

I'm curious about this myself. There are a lot of things that right handed people take for granted. Off the top of my head, the numpad and arrow key positions.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:28
#3
Holy-Nightmare's picture
Holy-Nightmare
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I use the standard keyboard controls except for the shield which I changed to X.

This is how the controls worked back in the day of mist and I just adapted to it. Now we have 4 control selections and all I had to do is just modify the standard keyboard.

FYI it isn't the other half, it's more like 10% of the populace.....

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 14:17
#4
Meep-The-Bank's picture
Meep-The-Bank
Meep.

I'm left handed. I use the same configurations as Holy has said.
Z to attack.
X to shield.
Arrow keys to move.

Only flaw with this is the fact that aiming without auto-target can make you less accurate however, once you've played for a couple of weeks with it, you get use to it and it's quite easy to use PvE or PvP.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 15:50
#5
Akinesia's picture
Akinesia

Do you some of you guys use left-handed mice with keyboard controls or use a right-hand-mouse or no mouse at all?

@Holy
Yeah, it is about 10% of people.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 16:09
#6
Meep-The-Bank's picture
Meep-The-Bank
Meep.

No mouse at all.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 16:19
#7
Skepticraven's picture
Skepticraven
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Quite a few of us left handed people learned how to be ambidextrous (or ambisinister) out of convenience.
Personally, I play with a right handed mouse and standard controls, despite being left handed.
I normally say I'm ambidextrous to not confuse people, despite not being able to produce anything legible out of my right hand. Then it isn't as much of a shock when I randomly decide to switch hands in the middle of playing golf with them.

Sat, 07/18/2015 - 17:40
#8
Mephisto-Philus's picture
Mephisto-Philus
Ye

I used to play Holy's controls before I had a mouse on a laptop for my first couple years, but now I play the same as Skeptic.

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