Question to left-handed players

[Froste]

Specifically those who play with the mouse in their left hand, if you hold the mouse in your right hand you're classified as right-handed.

Which keys do you place your right hand over, and what does your keybindings look like?

[Klutu]

im a Lefty..

i use mouse in left hand

the directionals for my up - down - left - right

Delete - left strafe

End - Right strafe

Insert - sit/stand

Home - attack/mode

Q - Auto run

E - Walk/run

Space Bar - NPC/Allies Toggle

http://closedstacks.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/keyboard.jpg

this is how i play being left handed might seem silly but it always worked

[DemonMonger]

<-- lefty but mouse in right hand :(

[Dannboy]

<-- lefty but mouse in right hand :(

Same :D :D :D :D

[monktbd]

i use mouse in left hand

the directionals for my up - down - left - right

Delete - auto run

Insert - sit/stand

right ctrl- attack/mode

Z - Walk/run

don't really use strafe and have it still on A and D although I might try Klutu's binding

Have some escape spells usually on 0 on the spell bar that i can easily hit on the numpad.

[theotherhiveking]

Same :D :D :D :D
Same here too.

[Leukothea]

<-- lefty but mouse in right hand :(

Same here... but i use the directionals (up - down - left - right) to move

[Pwnography]

Lefty i iz!

[veluchami]

Same here... but i use the directionals (up - down - left - right) to move

Same here.. I thought the arrow keys stopped working a couple of updates back???

[Froste]

No they just stopped being hardcoded, you can manually bind them now.

[Gawyn_Trakkand]

hmm I'm ambidexterous (or whatever the correct spelling is) so i can use either way but i prefer playing a laptop and find it much easier to use my left hand on the touchpad and the arrow keys to move. I use right ctrl to toggle comat mode, Q for auto run and E for run walk. Everything else is default.

[1ray1]

i'm left but i use the mouse right-handed

[Froste]

Let me reiterate that I'm only interested in the keybindings of people who use the mouse in their left hand.

[ArcticWolf]

Same here too.

I've been forced to use the mouse with my right hand by ergonomics and software settings so long that I can now switch hands and play perfectly fine. That said, I have a Wolfking Warrior gaming keyboard (I bought it because I have a laptop, and you know how fragile those keyboards are), which forces me to use my right hand for FPS and the like.

If I had a normal (disposable) keyboard, I would bind:

basic movement keys: wasd --> ijkl
strafe left and right: qe --> uo
rest: y
show health bars: ñ (next to "l", YMMV in non-latam keyboards. Otherwise you can map it to [space])
toggle walk/run: h

I never tried that, though. I don't know if you can safely bind "o" without opening the options window.

[Froste]

The wolfking warrior is really nice, and I wish they had a mirrored one. The most left hand friendly one I can find, and one I've been considering buying is the X7 G100

http://www.softilus.com/img-arg/tec138/tec138_1.jpg

Incidentally it's one of the cheapest too.

[Froste]

Before I posted this thread my setup was as follows:

Arrow keys, forward, back, turn left/right
Del strafe left, PGDN strafe right
End autorun, Home walk/run
Ins rest, PGUP shownames
Right ctrl warmode

Then I used my little finger on numpad 0 and 1, the only two keys I could properly reach in a panic situation. Before mouselook I used the mouse exclusively to cast spells, but after mouselook I found myself controlling my movement with the mouse instead, leaving only two spells able to be used.

But since making this thread and cursing NGD a lot for hardcoding numpad, I started thinking why the hell shouldn't I be able to use numpad? And the answer was, of course I should! So I decided to remap my keyboard. The numpad contains 17 keys, that gave me 6 movement keys and 10 spell slots and one unused key that I can't reach (KP_2). It's still a little rough learning the new controls but I feel like so much more potential has opened up for me.

[bois]

I am left handed too

left arrow - left
right arrow -right
up- forward
down -back

delete -strafe left
pgdn - strafe right

left ctrl- attack mode

I use no key for rest I just click through on hot bar

don't use run walk so it is left on C which is bound to something else. Don't really care as I almost never walk anyway.

Everything else is handled with the mouse. I am so badly left handed that it is actually faster to click through. My right hand is a spare. :what:

Artec

[Wikid]

ARROWS: move
HOME: strafe left
END: strafe right
SHIFT: combat mode
CTRL: rest
ALT: auto run

I like it because I can hit any of the numpad keys with my pinky. The only time I have to move my hand is for auto run (thumb is just barely not long enough).