Lefties pwn righties, determines Aussie study

I'm sorry, but that just sounds like bullcrap. I don't believe for a second that left-handed people have more efficient brains than right-handed people. Your dominant hand should have nothing to do with your mental processes.

As a southpaw, I can attest that we "pwn" in deathmatches.... except for when Ubisoft neglects to support Southpaw controls and refuses to patch the capability nearing 1 year after release. GRAW on 360 *cough*

Nuts! Dr. Nick better go back to tending sheep in the outback. I'm a lefty, and much as I'd love to I can't play pc games properly for wages! It feels unnatural and ass backwards. I feel much better playing console games altho I'm not an all star at that; but playing pc games does not feel natural at all. Must be the way we're wired, I guess. haha.

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This article would be more useful if it pointed to left-handed mice that were available at retail.

All i see are a couple inferior neutral mice (i have to use) and the rest are right handed mice ...like the laser g5 mouse that i would like if only it came in a left hand variant.

:(

Everything is backwards once you cross the equator.

As our brain ages we lose processing resources in the two hemispheres but left-handers may be able to cope better because the sharing of resource across their hemispheres is more efficient.

Yeah, well try being a lefty and playing the Wii. Awkward as hell.

I am left handed and can beat anyone at any game. I own everyone and I am the greatest human being ever sent to this planet. Love me or die

My left handed buddy.
Sucks at Video Gaming.
I kick his butt at guitar.
So much for Studies

I find that I am permanently handicapped in console gaming as a leftie. At least as far as FPS's are concerned. I never bothered to swap the controls when I was learning and first playing on friends consoles. Now, I am forced to aim with my right thumb, and just don't have the control and dexterity there to do it all that well. If I had flipped them early on it would be no problem, but now I only get frustrated when I try to re-learn. I think there are a number of hurtles for lefties in both the console and PC gaming arenas, regardless of whether we are wired better or not.

Back when I started with a real video game console (I don't count anything before the NES), I wondered why they were lefthanded by design. Using d-pad is more complicated than pressing the a or b button back in the NES era. The original NES/Famicom controller was designed by Miyamoto, and recently I learned that he was a lefty. AH-HA! That explains why controllers are backwards! Since all relevant video game console controllers are basically modifications to the old NES controller, all controllers are basically designed for lefties!

Since controllers are designed for lefties it's only logical that lefties would have a small edge over righthanded people. I bet if we all grew up with righthanded controllers then righties would have the edge

(I remember back in the 80s the lefty NES controller design was just a curiousity and didn't really bother me at all, but now that controllers have so many buttons and so many on the righthand side I wonder if they've actually evolved to the point where the right side of the controller is more complicated)

I think a lot of it comes from *most* lefties(except for the weirdoes up there ^^^) learning to use mice with their right hand proficiently. Leaving their dominant hand at the keyboard. Unlike righties who have their retard hand on the keys. Our natural ambidexterity makes it easier for us to just jump into a computer game and feel right at home.

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@steve: I think so, just look at fight night round 3 on the 360 with the total punch control. YOu have to do a lot more with your right hand than with your left.

And and I agree with this article 100%. SOUTH PAW FTW!!!

I'm a lefty and I must say that I have mixed feelings about the Wiimote's lefty-compatibility.

I can use it alright, but games that involve an analog stick and the pointer capability are a little weird. On the one hand, my aim is much steadier with my left hand. On the other hand, I'm so used to left-handed analog sticks that I cant use the nunchuck as accurately with my right hand. When I'm riding Epona or sumo wrestling in Twilight Princess, for example, I switch the nunchuck to my left hand. But otherwise I hold the Wiimote with my left hand...especially when I expect to be shooting something.

However, the basic concept of the Wiimote-nunchuck combination is the most ambidextrous controller I've ever seen. Now, if only I didn't want both in the same hand. Think it's possible to mod an anolog stick onto a Wiimote, or pointer capability into the nunchuck?

PS: I dont't play many console FPSes, and the ones that I do, I'm pretty bad at because I'm not accurate enough with the right analog stick.

2 thoughts on that:

first: the brain is switched in the head so left handed people use the right brain and vice versa.

second: this is the prove that I should go an buy the GameCube version of Zelda (Link is a lefty ya know).

^^

Yet another reason we need to drown all the lefties at birth.

Lefty right here :hi5:

@#14:
hmm, anyone in your family a leftie? why dont you tell that to them. And why is that a reason to drown us at birth? Because you suck so much, that you need easier competetion? You're like hitler. you know what he did? he killed himself.

oh, yeah, i forgot to say, how are you going to tell?

I am a ambidex, more lefty tho. But i find it a lot easier on the right side then the left to play, since i have more control and speed.

Also my freind is a full lefty. Its funny since he cannot play PC even if he learned to use a lefty mouse for several years. So he uses a righty mouse.

Also note, theres a G3 mouse by logitech, its not a lefty version of the G5, but its a ambidex one.

@ Reply 20 - Actually, your dominant hand (coming naturally, as in that was your strongest hand since birth) should in most cases show a little bit of how your brain is wired. Take this BBC article for example.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4242419.stm
"Left-handed and right-handed people view the world differently, scientists have shown.
Psychologists found they use opposite sides of their brains when looking at, and making sense of, an image.
It is already known that handedness is associated with differences in the way we make sense of language, and possibly in spatial orientation."

@ slowerpig81 - Please tell me you know what the expression "tongue-in-cheek" means.

I saw this article on BBC last week. Here's the link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6212972.stm

Hey, I'm left handed, and I use the mouse with my left hand. I can also pwn a LOT of people in FPS on the computer without using my right hand for the mouse. And I don't use the stupid aswd keys either. Arrow keys FTW!!!

Hey was CNN Miles o'brien a lefty? Cuz you got pwned!

I'm a lefty and I love how I can actually play left handed on Wii! For Zelda, this works out perfectly (i didn't have a problem learning to use the analog stick in my right hand). Rayman sometimes just assumes you are right handed, but luckily i can cope with most of the mini-games that are like that.

Well I AM a lefty but I was grown up using the controller as a right hander and the mouse in my right hand. I think I'll start trying out my left and soon though as I can be way off in accuracy with my right hand at times. But no, I don't pwn (maybe its cause I use everything as a righty :p).

Well I AM a lefty but I was grown up using the controller as a right hander and the mouse in my right hand. I think I'll start trying out my left and soon though as I can be way off in accuracy with my right hand at times. But no, I don't pwn (maybe its cause I use everything as a righty :p).

@Steve

Miyamoto may be left handed, but he didn't create the famicom/NES. He's a software programmer and a pioneer of video gaming, not a hardware designer. Though he has more influence in the video game industry now than he did back in the beginning, he says so himself that it just *feels* right to control the Wii in the nunchuck-left/wiimote-right setup, and that that was how Zelda: TP was designed, even though Link is left handed (Isn't Miyamoto like a supervisor or something now for zelda titles?). I don't know much about swordsmanship, but as far as Kendo is of concern, anyone who's ever practiced Kendo knows that there is much more focus on the left arm than the right, giving lefties an edge when learning the art. Personally, I don't know what's the problem as far as playing Wii with holding the controls in the opposite hands.

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As a lefty, It's always felt natural with the mouse and keyboard and also the controller for that matter. I tend to like the arrow keys with my right hand rather than the wasd control set. Although, I'm still waiting for a left handed version of the Z-Board. It's tough being a lefty in a right wing world.......

"21. My left handed buddy.
Sucks at Video Gaming.
I kick his butt at guitar.
So much for Studies"

Hello.. Jimi Hendrix? :roll:

I'm lefty and I normally kick ass at video games, I do very well with fps wether on console or pc. I use to play quake 2 all the time, and every few seconds playing it I'd get a head shot. Also I'm listed as one of the top players in GoW. Top ten %, don't know if that means anything since it seems your score goes up based on how much you play the game, and I don't play it that much.. so hard to tell..