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Peter Hosey

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ergonomics tip

if you have big hands and you're using a small-ish mouse a lot and your hands/wrist hurts, i really recommend getting a bigger mouse. it has seriously made a big difference for me

pendell
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May I Add

I just purhcased a (large) vertical mouse and it has immediately Changed Everything and I can never go back. Wrist pain ABOLISHED.

boredzo
@boredzo

Can confirm

A vertical mouse is the only way I'm able to get out of the bad habit of moving the mouse with my wrist and into the good habit of moving it by moving my whole arm.

Switching to a vertical mouse and a two-piece keyboard (I use an ErgoDox EZ) seem to have completely arrested the advancement of my RSI. I still need to periodically flex my right wrist to keep it from gumming up, but it doesn't develop pain like it used to.

For anyone considering trying this: Try multiple models. Ideally, try them out at a store, but this is an imperfect test and you may find that a mouse that fit OK at the store doesn't work so well for real usage. Plus, not all models will have demo units available.

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in reply to @pendell's post:

gabu
@gabu

i wish someone would make a vertical mouse with Added Gamer Buttons

my G502 has 2 extra buttons on the side of left mouse button (i mapped em to [ and ]) and a big thumb button under back/forward (mapped to G)

these come in handy with games SO much and help pain in my left hand a lot (no need to reach left hand across the keyboard or let go of WASD). for example [ and ] mapped to hotkeys for using abilities or melee attack, mapping G to throwing a grenade, etc.

i just need a vertical mouse with like 3-4 extra buttons that can be mapped to keyboard keys, nothing fancy, and i'd be set forever

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pendell
@pendell

I just bought the MX Vertical, it's pricey ($85) but it has exactly what you're describing. Left click, right click, middle click, and then a button on the top and two buttons on the thumbrest area. By default they're mapped to back-forward and the top button is defaulted to, like, changing between two mouse sensitivity presets? But in LG's software you can not only change those mappings systemwide, you can change them on a per-app basis which is really nifty, though I personally just leave them on back-forward for web browsing and have the middle button mapped to Snip & Sketch so I don't have to remember the dumb shortcut to take a screenshot anymore haha.

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gabu
@gabu

yeah, i've seen it before and that doesn't sound like what i'm describing sadly :(

left/right/middle + back/forward (buttons 4 and 5) on the thumb are standard mouse buttons, so only that "top" button would be an extra one

the g502 has three extra non-standard buttons on top of the standard 5 buttons, and i use all three commonly in games

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in reply to @boredzo's post:

nothe
@nothe

that big "why vertical mouse" pic is so irrationally upsetting to me, because those arrows have absolutely NO relationship with the way your hand position changes between the two! it's rotation, not tilt!

...thank you for letting me scream into the abyss, please feel free to ignore. ;)

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