Vertical mice.. yuck. A coworker has one that I tried and it was terrible, probably because you are forced to use the whole arm or wrist to move that thing.
Darth's description sounds very much like the way I use my medium-sized mouse: Forearm rests on the table at a ~90° angle, thumb and pinky do most of the little and mid-range movements, with the wrist barely moving at all. Thumb, index and middle finger do the clicking; ring finger unused. This ergonomic thumb/pinky movement just isn't possible when the mouse is too big.
The movement I find most awkward is actually the constant switching from mouse to keyboard and back again. The mouse is too far away from a natural resting position due to the numpad that most regular keyboards have, so the arm rests at an unnatural angle. I'm planning to get a tenkeyless keyboard with separate numpad to ameliorate the issue.
I think wrist rests are helpful, especially if you use a mouse pad, although I only have one for the keyboard at the moment.
Darth's description sounds very much like the way I use my medium-sized mouse: Forearm rests on the table at a ~90° angle, thumb and pinky do most of the little and mid-range movements, with the wrist barely moving at all. Thumb, index and middle finger do the clicking; ring finger unused. This ergonomic thumb/pinky movement just isn't possible when the mouse is too big.
The movement I find most awkward is actually the constant switching from mouse to keyboard and back again. The mouse is too far away from a natural resting position due to the numpad that most regular keyboards have, so the arm rests at an unnatural angle. I'm planning to get a tenkeyless keyboard with separate numpad to ameliorate the issue.
I think wrist rests are helpful, especially if you use a mouse pad, although I only have one for the keyboard at the moment.
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