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FutureWorm
28 Jan 2010, 22:18
saw this post (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=710766&postcount=3836) and was curious
thomasp
28 Jan 2010, 23:02
Where's the option for both? It depends what the other hand's doing :p

Although i reckon I tend to press it slightly more with my right hand than left hand, despite being left handed...
Alien King
28 Jan 2010, 23:45
Just wrote a load of drivel into a text editor.
Almost completely with the right hand although very occasionally my left thumb will hit it. I suspect if I'd been using WASD (or QWES) for games from an earlier age my left hand would reach it a little more frequently.
bloopy
29 Jan 2010, 00:11
Right when typing. Left when ninja roping.
Alien King
29 Jan 2010, 00:14
Right when typing. Left when ninja roping.

Ah yes, when gaming it's almost exclusively with my left hand (right hand is on the mouse after all (or on the arrow keys for W:A or really old games)).
MrBunsy
29 Jan 2010, 01:40
I voted left, but then tried typing something and realised that I use my right hand just as much as my left. In games it's exclusively my left hand though.
MtlAngelus
29 Jan 2010, 09:38
Right for typing, Left for gaming.
SargeMcCluck
29 Jan 2010, 10:16
Left thumb and right thumb about equally when typing, but left hand when gaming, so left overall.
Paul.Power
29 Jan 2010, 11:18
My current latop keyboard's a bit shiny anyway, so it's hard to tell.

Checking my old laptop keyboard, however... right hand. It's probably because I'm better at typing with my left hand - I can use all the fingers on my left hand to type, but usually only use the middle finger on my right hand. This tends to mean that my left hand stays relatively still while my right hand darts about a lot - and while it's darting around, I can press the spacebar.
KRD
29 Jan 2010, 12:22
Mutants!

Left thumb when typing, me. Exclusively, as far as I can tell, though it's not impossible the right thumb helps on some word combinations. It's proving difficult to check because the fact that I'm observing it consciously right now means there's a good chance the results are biased. Also, I only have a rather constricting laptop keyboard at hand right now, but I doubt I'll do this any differently once I have a desktop computer with a proper keyboard again.

When playing Worms, it's the left middle finger when roping as well as when firing weapons, unless I'm in a hurry trying to mash the correct F keys, in which case I'll use the thumb of the same hand. But never for roping, only Dutch people rope with their thumb.
Zero72
29 Jan 2010, 21:34
Left for just about everything, hence the thing's going bad on that side. :p

On a related note, I use only right Shift for typing.
SomePerson
30 Jan 2010, 00:14
Hah, I'm the exact opposite. I only ever use spacebar with my right thumb, but I use left shift exclusively.

I also never use caps lock because I'm in such a habit of hitting shift I always do inverse caps rather than all caps, like "i TALKED TO jOHN TODAY." I can type pretty well with one finger always holding the spacebar though; even with one finger less to type with it barely affects my speed.
FutureWorm
30 Jan 2010, 00:27
Hah, I'm the exact opposite. I only ever use spacebar with my right thumb, but I use left shift exclusively.

I also never use caps lock because I'm in such a habit of hitting shift I always do inverse caps rather than all caps, like "i TALKED TO jOHN TODAY." I can type pretty well with one finger always holding the spacebar though; even with one finger less to type with it barely affects my speed.
yep, same here
thomasp
30 Jan 2010, 00:35
I use whichever hand is free when using the shift key. In other words, the opposite half of the keyboard to the letter I want to capitalise.
GrimOswald
30 Jan 2010, 06:22
Right for typing, left for gaming, as far as I can tell. I also pretty much never use the shift keys and use caps lock instead.
Akuryou13
30 Jan 2010, 06:54
I'm finding I use my right index finger to hit the space bar pretty much exclusively. I've not actually noticed what I use while gaming, but it's probably irrelevant because I usually use a N52 anyway while gaming in pretty much any form.

oddly enough, I don't seem to use my thumbs at all while I type. never really occurred to me before.
Xinos
30 Jan 2010, 19:41
I mostly use my left thumb for spacebar, but I've never thought of it before I started writing this post. Good to know?
Zero72
30 Jan 2010, 21:43
I use whichever hand is free when using the shift key. In other words, the opposite half of the keyboard to the letter I want to capitalise.You're the only one I know who does it "correctly." :p
Melon
30 Jan 2010, 23:11
I only use my left hand to hit the spacebar when I'm writing erotic fan-fiction.
bloopy
31 Jan 2010, 06:08
Just noticed that occasionally I use my left thumb on space instead of my right index finger, but it's kind of random and subconscious.
SupSuper
31 Jan 2010, 23:45
Always the left thumb.
bonz
2 Feb 2010, 08:35
Left thumb.

Half-Life's WASD controls from 1998 got me used to that.
I automatically place my left hand on those keys whenever I'm using a keyboard.
Akuryou13
3 Feb 2010, 00:53
Left thumb.

Half-Life's WASD controls from 1998 got me used to that.
I automatically place my left hand on those keys whenever I'm using a keyboard.who needs home row when you got WASD? :cool: