I use a standard righthanded mouse, with my left handI am righthanded, but mouse with my left hand. I did
not switch the mousebuttons. So basically I am using a standard, right handed mouse with my left hand.
Why do I mouse with my left hand? For ergonomic benefits: I got a sore right shoulder from mousing right handed. On the left side, the mouse is closer. Result: less pain in the right soulder, and no (!) new pain in the left shoulder.
Did it take long to learn left handed mousing?A couple of weeks. At the moment I prefer to mouse left handed, for "simple mousing".
Do I exclusively mouse left handed?No, when I'm doing a lot of precise mouse work (think Photoshopping) sometimes I use my right hand. That is still my dominant, most precise hand.
Why do I use a righthanded mouse? Why not switch the mouse buttons? This way I can easily use coworkers computers & mice. And at home, it's easy to switch the mouse over to the right hand. Also, it's easy to use 2 mice at the same time, without having to program stuff. On my linux computers I
could easily program individual mice to be left or right handed (using xinput), but why bother? And, on Windows I don't even know if it possible to use a left and a right handed mouse at the same time (but I don't know much about Windows).
Is using a righthanded mouse with the left hand, and also with the right hand, confusing?No! I'm used that my middle finger (the strongest finger, by the way) of my left hand does the 'normal' clicks; and that my index finger on the right hand does the normal clicks. The nice thing is that a 'right click' is always on the right side of the mouse :-)
You may even call it the "
Jimi Hendrix set up" - named after a certain guitarist who played a righthanded guitar lefthanded
Edit: typos