Right Handed vs. Left Handed
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Yesterday I was pondering about right and left handed shifting while playing GT4. I would think that it would be much easier for right handed people (the majority) to shift with their right hand!
Finally, the U.S. doing something different (e.g. like not using the metric system), is a good thing
What do you think? Is it more natural to shift right handed or left handed?
Finally, the U.S. doing something different (e.g. like not using the metric system), is a good thing
What do you think? Is it more natural to shift right handed or left handed?
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Thank god, i thought i was the only one who thought about pointless crap like that. Being a lefty myself, i've thought about that before, and I think if you're doing any kind of competitive driving it would be a lot easier to shift with your dominant hand.
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I am left handed and have no problem shifting with the right. I haven't even wanted to shift with my left; but one gets set in their ways quickly -- I'm sure europeans are thinking the same thing with the left.
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Well, I've spent a number of years living in countries where the cars are right hand drive, meaning you shift with your left hand. Once you get used to it, there really doesn't seem to be much difference which hand you shift with. At least that has been my experience.
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Originally posted by thezeppelin8@September 28, 2005, 4:57 PM
I thought so
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I thought so
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Im left handed and I dont have any problems shifting with my right hand,but the other day one of my friends let me drive his right hand drive suburau and it was almost natural shifting the gears with my left hand.It was the most fun driving that I have ever had except when I tried to pass someone.
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Ya, i'd like to try a RHD car. Ive never had any problems shifting with my right hand, but it seems like us lefties might not know what were missing. On the topic of RHD cars, I almost got to race a skyline the other night, but somebody merged right in front of him. Woulda smoked me anyways.
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Im right handed but I have shifted with my left once. I was setting in the passenger seat and I changed the gears for a guy who was talking on the phone (moron). It felt weird and it was kinda hard since my left hand is a lot weaker than my right.
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Dvorak went beyond Blickensderfer in arranging his letters according to frequency. Dvorak's home row uses all five vowels and the five most common consonants: AOEUIDHTNS. With the vowels on one side and consonants on the other, a rough typing rhythm would be established as each hand would tend to alternate.
With the Dvorak keyboard, a typist can type about 400 of the English language's most common words without ever leaving the home row. The comparable figure on QWERTY is 100. The home row letters on Dvorak do a total of 70% of the work. On QWERTY they do only 32%.
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The Dvorak keyboard sounds very good. However, a keyboard need to do more than just "sound" good, and unfortunately, Dvorak has failed to prove itself superior to QWERTY. It appears that many of the studies used to test the effectiveness of Dvorak were flawed. Many were conducted by the good professor himself, creating a conflict of interest question, since he had a financial interest in the venture. A U.S. General Services Administration study of 1953 appears to have been more objective. It found that it really didn't matter what keyboard you used. Good typists type fast, bad typists don't.
With the Dvorak keyboard, a typist can type about 400 of the English language's most common words without ever leaving the home row. The comparable figure on QWERTY is 100. The home row letters on Dvorak do a total of 70% of the work. On QWERTY they do only 32%.
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The Dvorak keyboard sounds very good. However, a keyboard need to do more than just "sound" good, and unfortunately, Dvorak has failed to prove itself superior to QWERTY. It appears that many of the studies used to test the effectiveness of Dvorak were flawed. Many were conducted by the good professor himself, creating a conflict of interest question, since he had a financial interest in the venture. A U.S. General Services Administration study of 1953 appears to have been more objective. It found that it really didn't matter what keyboard you used. Good typists type fast, bad typists don't.
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I think that the left/right thing doesn't really affect things that badly. For instance, we change gears with both hands when on a bike.
I am left handed and had no problem driving a right hand drive car, I have never driven stick in a left hand drive, but shouldn't think it would be a problem
I am left handed and had no problem driving a right hand drive car, I have never driven stick in a left hand drive, but shouldn't think it would be a problem
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