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So I was thinking earlier today about how I'm a Difficult IT Citizen (I need a Dvorak keyboard and my mouse on the left side, which makes my workstation pretty much an insanity hazard for anyone who needs to borrow it), and realized I have about three theories re: my left-handed mousing.

I'm right-handed, albeit with a dominant left eye, and started leftmousing under duress--my wrist started hurting a lot when I used my mouse, tendinitis sucks dick, I had to switch sides; the end. The weird part is that as long as I keep it on the left, the tendinitis doesn't ever come back. (Whereas it'll reliably creep back in about four days after I start mousing righty.) So, I mean, what?

• Let's call the first theory Camel Straw. Since my right hand and arm are more accurate and stable, I use them for a larger number of tasks, and adding multiple hours daily of intermittent mouse use to that is just asking more than those poor tendons can give. Splitting the load reduces the strain just enough to avoid hurt.
• Then there's No Backtracking: When I first got my hands on a mouse, I had no conception of proper ergonomic practice (you can't have your wrist folded in half when you're moving your fingers? What.) and learnt it totally wrong. Theoretically, it'd be completely possible to re-learn mousing with my right hand and do it pain-free for the rest of my life, but it would require a certain amount of arduous UN-learning first. Whereas, since I started from zero skill on the left hand, I never had to unlearn anything, and could achieve reasonably ergonomic mouse skill in about half the time it would have taken on the right.
• And finally, Elbow Grease: The theory that trying to move a pointer with your less accurate side is a fundamentally different suite of motions. Since my right hand is much more accurate, I was able to use a mouse with the acceleration cranked way up through the roof, and get the pointer across the screen with a mere twitch of the wrist. The left side can't do that, so I have to dial the acceleration down a bit and get my elbow and shoulder into the action, using the whole mousepad area and keeping my wrist in a much more stable position. The fact that I can't rely on pinpoint accuracy anymore prevents me from falling into lazy and destructive habits that are only possible on the dextrous side.

So yeah. What's more plausible? Anyone else around here mouse wronghanded?