Left Handed Smashers?

[enCouRaging Bear]

Anybody play melee left handed or know anyone that does?

 

[oats_]

How does being left-handed affect how you hold a controller?

I know left handed people who play melee, and they just play like normal..

 

[KoopaTroopa895]

meh...I'm left handed, the only problem that has ever hit me was tornado'ing with mario since I can smash a button faster with my left hand than right. But its nothing practice can't beat(although I still cannot do it).

 

[pokemongeof]

It would be somewhat weird to see someone holding a controller as if they were left handed.

But it really depends on what you prefer

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

It would be somewhat weird to see someone holding a controller as if they were left handed.

But it really depends on what you prefer

you mean... upside down?

 

[TerryJ]

you mean... upside down?

That'd actually be pretty entertaining.

 

[The 2t]

I'm left handed. The thing is, since we all live in a right handed world, we've all grown up having to use our right hand for things anyway and it's just kind of natural now. I mean, I still use a mouse with my right hand (and so do most left handers, from what I've seen) and it feels just as natural as if I was right handed anyway.

At the end of the day, we might hold a tennis racquet or pen with our left hand, but as far as using a gamecube controller goes, nothing unusual to see here.

 

[Yakal]

I'm left handed

I don't think it makes me hold my controller any different though.

 

[Barbs Jr]

I've always wondered the impact being left handed has on gaming.

I don't think any amount of practice can make your non dominant hand as precise as your dominant hand could be at maximum potential. It's why i've always wondered if I should have switched my first person shooter console stick config to aiming with my left thumb and moving with my right.

 

[foshio]

I am left handed and I use a controller like normal...

 

[Seagull Joe]

I only use a controller differently in SSB.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

The only games left handedness might affect controls are PC games, and many lefties still play normal. There are a couple notable left handed SC2 players (I believe Naniwa uses his left hand.. or was it Sase?)

 

[Lovage]

zhu is left handed that's how he's able to dash dance into another galaxy

 

[Swann]

That'd actually be pretty entertaining.

 

[crush]

Ya zhu said something once about left handed people being better at moonwalking to the left.

 

[Simna ibn Sind]

Being left handed suits playing Ness since most of Ness' technical game consists of mashing all buttons on the right side of the controller at about the same time. You practically dont need a hand attached to your right arm.

 

[hectohertz]

i am a lefty. i like it. lefties rule

 

[voorhese]

yo i'm left handed, and I tear **** up

 

[Jim Morrison]

Being left handed has not helped me be more technical with my left-hand. For example, my dash dances are normal speed, but I can SHDL for hours with my right hand.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

You have some untapped potential, then, it seems

 

[Tee ay eye]

axe
silentspectre
zhu

 

[CyberZixx]

I am left handed. My left hand is more dexterous so maybe it helps with movement.

 

[Upke]

I'm left-handed, but then I broke it once really bad and after physical therapy I'm pretty much ambidextrous now.
I'd say both of my hands are equally bad at video games.

 

[Simna ibn Sind]

I am left handed. My left hand is more dexterous so maybe it helps with movement.

As a leftist I demand you stop living under the oppression of rightist bigotry; your left hand is more sinistrous(not dextrous)! /lol

 

[Upke]

Simna's gotta point. We are evil by nature.

 

[Simna ibn Sind]

Simna's gotta point. We are evil by nature.

That's totally not what I meant.

 

[Simna ibn Sind]

sinister (comparative more sinister, superlative most sinister)

1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
2. Evilor seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
   sinister influences
   the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
3. Of the left side.
4. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
5. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

Antonyms

• (of the right side): dexter http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dexter
• (heraldry): dexter

 

[Upke]

That's exactly what I meant though. The latin word "sinistra" meant left and also evil. Way back when people who were left-handed were considered inherently evil or unlucky.

 

[CyberZixx]

It's so weird that people used to discriminate against people just for being left handed. Like, what does it matter? Humans are so funny sometimes.

 

[L__]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance

mixed handedness son

 

[King Mob]

I remember when my friends and I first started to get really into higher level play and were learning dash dancing. The one of us who was marginally more experienced told me "no, Matt, you don't do it that fast." KO Righty.