are you a left hander or right hander?

[Bibbed]

Right-handed. L to L-cancel. R to wavedash/shield. Whatever button combination has the smoothest series of movements is what I prefer.

 

[Yoshi in Style]

Fluffy necro'd it.

I'm a righty (surprise!).

Do longer fingers help or hurt your play style?

Yeah that's what I want to know also. I have particulary long fingers, and they do help me.
I don't know if it isn't like that for others. It's just the feeling.

 

[Skylink]

I'm a lefty, but the only thing that I notice to have difficulty with is dash dancing. I dont feel like I have a disadvantage at all.

 

[Nephiros]

I'm left-handed too, but I really don't see how that could give any advantage or something.
My hands are very small though (maybe because of my bone disease...I dunno) and my fingers are quite fast too..

 

[Suliman]

i always wondered this myself too..

im right handed, and i cannot use my left hand to do anything in most games. I even l cancel, wavedash, grab, etc. with my right hand and never press l. my cuz is left handed and he uses l to lcancell. so idk. it might make a diff..

 

[ImDaTroof]

I'm Left-handed and the ONLY thing I use my left hand for is moving. I also play piano, which probably ups my eye-hand cooridination, plus when playing piano most songs(usually the easy) have more notes to play for the right hand.

Anyways I do all advanced tactics with my right hand.

 

[TigerBlade34]

I'm a righty. I'm not sure if there would be a distinct difference of how they play since most of my friends are right-handed. I think left-handed people would have a better control over their character since the control stick is on the left, IMO, but hey....I might be wrong.

 

[Zeke_]

I dont think whether you left handed or right handed really matters because both ways there are disadvantages.

 

[entity]

I use both hands.

 

[element_of_fire]

I’m ambidextrous, and i play guitar... not sure it really helps though >_>

 

[Sav'ur]

I'm a righty. I'm not sure if there would be a distinct difference of how they play since most of my friends are right-handed. I think left-handed people would have a better control over their character since the control stick is on the left, IMO, but hey....I might be wrong.

I think I might agree with you. I'm a righty. So, I sometimes have trouble Wavedashing to the left then I do with the right. Or doing quarter-circle combos in Soul Calibur to the left than to the right.

I feel that occurs because it's hard for me to manuever my thumb to the left when it's already well over to the left. But then when it comes to timing things right, I can hit buttons just right. I don't know, this is all just my opinion.

 

[DoH]

My left-handed friend has to hold the stick with both his left index finger and left thumb. Does anyone else do this?

the infamous jesusfreak style, lol

I'm right handed.

 

[ShizutYoMizouf]

wow ken iz right handed, i figured all asian ppl were left handed. i learned sumthin new today lolz

 

[RastaImposta]

Im right handed, so does that make me almost as good as ken? I had a convo with ken, chu, isai, husband-nothin good, wife, KillOR, does that make me as good as them? I have big hands, yah, it really is a disadvantage, when your thumb goes to push upA, and instead push upB and leave yourself open, it sucks.

Right handed, but I have been playing the drums for the last 4 or 5 years, so my fingers have pretty good manuverablity.

 

[MZero17]

right handed

 

[piZ]

I'm a lefty, i hold the controller pretty much like everyone else. I don't see how being left handed or right handed would affect the manuverability you have with your thumbs.. :/

i only discovered a couple of months ago that im the only person i know of that i play with that uses l to wavedash and l-cancel...

Most people use R to l-cancel? ...I assumed that it was called L cancel because it was generally done with L..

That being said, i use L to wd and lc. I tend to have a problem waveshielding instead of just wd'ing though.. maybe if i start using R to wd it'll help me relearn to wd without holding the trigger so long.

 

[RastaImposta]

I use R to lcancel and wavedash, since Im right handed, to me it only made since. As for the lcanceling, somebody told me I could do it with R, so I tried it, it worked, now I use R.

 

[King_Jiggly]

great topic

pretty cool u brought this up i never thought about that really.

ill have to ask my smash bretheren.

 

[Vodage]

I'm left handed. I do wavedash with L... But like, I'm way better at PC FPS games than I am at smash. All of those rely on precise mouse-aim, which I do with my right hand.

 

[L__]

I'm a lefty, i hold the controller pretty much like everyone else. I don't see how being left handed or right handed would affect the manuverability you have with your thumbs.. :/



Most people use R to l-cancel? ...I assumed that it was called L cancel because it was generally done with L..

That being said, i use L to wd and lc. I tend to have a problem waveshielding instead of just wd'ing though.. maybe if i start using R to wd it'll help me relearn to wd without holding the trigger so long.

It''s called L cancel because the L stands for Lag.

Btw, I'm ambidextrous so ha.

 

[AetherLord]

I'd say I'm ambidextrous but majority lefty and I don't see how it affects manueverability...It matters how fast you move your fingers...

 

[TastesLikeNachos]

I'm right handed but i don't think that does a really big difference. I also heard someone made a inverted controller somewhere but it wasn't a official Nintendo controller.

 

[TheZhuKeeper]

Left handed... it helps a lot with moonwalking.

 

[Zodiac]

Left handed... it helps a lot with moonwalking.

Now that you mention it, it makes sense, I actually have quite a bit of trouble moonwalking, I'm right handed.

 

[Eternal phoenix Fire]

I'm right handed, but I may see if I can get my left handed friend to do some stuff and make an analysis.

I can't Moonwalk that well either. lol

 

[Tee ay eye]

No ****ing johnsss...

Mango's hands are ****ing gigantic. Or at least his fingers anyway. They're longer than mine by at least 1 1/2 inches.

 

[comboking]

right handed

 

[Da Shuffla]

Controllers are made for right-handed people. Which is why you never see a control stick on the right side. This gives a slight advantage. However, I think most left-handers are better with their right hand than right- handers are with their left hand.

 

[victra♥]

It''s called L cancel because the L stands for Lag.

Btw, I'm ambidextrous so ha.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. 64 had Z-canceling which served the same purpose.

Anyways, I'm right handed.

 

[LittleOne]

im right handed. i think i would be worse in melee if i was left handed.

 

[G1G4 G0N0RRH34]

i wish i was left handed =[
i have an obsession with lefties

omfg zhu is a lefty!

 

[RedPeppers]

ROFL! This thread is soo old it got a random bump back from grave in 2006, and now it's getting another one 2008!

I'm a righty.

 

[TheManaLord]

right handed good topic ken

 

[Corigames]

Right handed, but I don't see how this affects anything.

 

[DtJ Jungle]

left handed, agreed. my movement blows

 

[metaXzero]

I'm a Righty trying to forcibly be a Lefty.

And this is the first time I've seen a thread by Kenny lol

 

[Dylanx928]

I am left handed. But after playing many years of halo and other first person shooters, i would have a very well coordinated thumb anyways if i was a right handed. Being left handed could be a advantage, not really sure its something that could be studied or analyzed. My opinion is yes, left handers' have the advantage, its our time to shine for once.

 

[A Diamond For Disease]

Somebody should make a completely inverted controller.

I know a guy who did that for socom on playstation2.

 

[Blea Gelo]

this topic is awesome.. hurts in the *** when u see all the people that have quitted thhihs precius game... but u get cool when u think about all thhe people that have joined XD

 

[Geist]

lol thread revival <3

I'm ambidextrous, so I've never really thought of this. I always assumed after a while you naturally get attuned with the controller.
Do people usually have controller trouble in video games? Like in fps games or something that requires analogue control.