What do you prefer: right or left handed joysticks? Why?
I seemed to get better performance from a right handed stick, even on Street Fighter type games. What are your thoughts?
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If it is what feels right to you I wish all the best in your training.
I personally can use both sides.
wait im lost. Hes asking if i can play better on the 1p or 2p side right? I play better in 1p but only by a small margin.
I think he’s talking about using the joystick with the right hand and hitting the buttons with the left hand. The folks that prefer that style are very, very rare. My friend prefers it since he’s used to using the arrow keys on the right side when playing fighters on GGPO.
Hah that’s how i played on my keyboard when i didnt have a stick or a joypad. Cause I always preferred directionals on my left. Anyways, Good luck!
I’ve seen people who cross their hands at the arcade a lot. They are the minority, but they do exist! I’d imagine some of them would like to use a right-handed stick if given the opportunity, yet I know of at least one person who needs to play on a standard stick with their hands crossed.
seth killian plays cross handed. I was amazed when I saw him do it at evo east a few years ago.
its an interesting topic.
most people (70-90%) are right-handed. this would imply that most people have better hand-eye coordination with their right hand. so what requires more skill? pushing buttons or joystick input? the answer (to me) is obvious: its joystick manipulation.
i’ve never played right-handed… but i have to wonder if theoretically its not the more natural configuration.
I’m a lefty but I use the default stick set up. I couldn’t imagine how uncomfortable playing with crossed hands would be…
i used to play on the keyboard and i used the W,A,S,D keys for direction. and the number pad for the punches and kicks. i couldn’t imagine using my right hand for directional.
Actually, having the stick on the left side is better for a right handed person (which is why sticks are designed that way).
It’s better to have the primary hand’s fingers free for faster precision button presses and the spatial complexity of multiple pressings e. g. simlutaneous presses, slides.
SRKs are the gruntwork. Piano-ing/Kara-ing is the finesse.
Just play with whatever works best for you, I’m left handed and I use the traditional setup.
Also the stick being on the left is really just flukey. Take galaga, which had no consideration for complex movements you had the stick on the left, and one button on the right. Arcades had set the convention up prior to the arcade game coming out.
Personally I think hitting buttons is easier than stick motions, to each their own.
I’m a lefty here and I play on the standard setup (stick on left). I actually think the stick requires a little bit more hand eye coordination. Simply because hitting buttons is just timing as compared to the stick where you have to move the stick to precise locations at precise times giving you more chance for error. However, I’m so slow at dail-a-combo’s like in Marvel.
Not sure if because its because its my weak hand or I’m getting too old for fighters. =(
regarding button pressing - for you elite typists out there, does your dominant hand exceed your inferior? i doubt it. i don’t buy the explanation that the defacto layout is there for a reason (ie, complex button presses). like Overwold said, the configuration was established long before the 6 button layout. its a legacy handmedown… which works perfectly fine… but is still seems kinda backwards.
i think the best way is the one where your hands work in unison comfortably, rather than having complete minds of its own 
Hmmm… I never really thought about it from a typing point of view. I am about 50 WPM typing and I think my left hand is a bit more quicker/accurate than my right. Not enough to make any difference at all. It could be a combination of
modern FPS’s use the WASD layout
the A-S-D-E-R keys being more common than the home keys on the right side so I would be using my left hand a bit more
that I’m a lefty and its all in my head
I do agree that the default stick on left/buttons on right is backwards and if they had a chance to do it again, they would reverse it.
I think the main reason is, that’s just how it all started.
I mean, at least stick users like us have options, and crossing your hands isn’t out of the question when you’re at the arcade… but when I think of the game pad, man there’s just no way to use that reverse-handed.
With computer games, I prefer the directional or numpad (with right hand of course). I don’t even consider playing fighting games that way though.
I think it’s the fact the games started with simple motions using the joystick. Most games continue to require only simple use of the jostick/d-pad, and so that’s how it stays… regardless of how complicated the motions get in fighting games. With that said, I trained myself to be able to rapidly press buttons with my right hand when I was 10 years old, and there’s no way I could do it with my left hand.
Im a lefty too, We lefties get used to the right handed stuff easily, but some are just stubborn to learn.
Default here.
Southpaw is still kinda hard for me.
I’m a right-handed person (writing and sports). I snowboard switch as much as I do normal. I played a right-handed guitar upside down for half a year before switching to a left-handed one.
Cross-handed players I get, I understand where they’re coming from. … but those crazies that have backwards-built custom sticks still just blow my mind. :looney: :looney: :looney:
Number Pad for life.
I don’t see how you get used to FPS mouse-play in your right hand. I have to re-map my sticks on console.
But, yeah, leftside sticks are not that difficult to use simply for their having been the default layout for all home systems and most arcade games.
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