Hey!

Ok so I have been playing osu for a couple of months and I have some questions regarding how to improve as a player, basically.

First of all, I am left handed, but I have used my mouse with my right hand my entire life (I'm 18 if age matters here). What I did a few days ago was to buy a new mouse, the Razer Taipan, which is ambidextrous, and I am planning to try and start playing with the mouse in my left hand. I feel like since it is my dominant hand it will make me better some time in the future (accuracy, speed and maybe reaction time wise). I'm wondering if you guys think this will be beneficial? It feels awkward now and obviously I am not that good with that setup yet (been going on it for 3 days). But I can feel like make faster and more consistent stops with my mouse now, as well as I feel like I will be better with spinners soon (it feels like I soon would be able to make smaller, faster circles with the mouse in my left hand rather than in my right). But do you think it will be worth it? How lng do you think it would take? Are there any top mouse players here that are left handed but use their right hand for the mouse?

Secondly, I wonder about sensitvity and dpi. As I've understood it you should set windows mouse sens to 6, right in the middle. But will changing sensitivity in- game cause tracking problems? My general idea until now is that if you change the sensitivity in-game the computer would multiply your dpi to a fitting number that will either increase or decrase your in-game sens to what you desired. I think that would cause tracking issues, therefore im only switching dpi in the mouse software and keep it at 1x in osu!. Am I wrong about this? What is weird is that if im right about it, the only mice you can buy on the market that could let you change your sens without setting it too low or too high and not interfere with the tracking would be razer, since those mice can change dpi by values of 100 (ex. 800,900,100,1100 dpi etc etc), while other brands, like steelseries mice only can change from 400, to 800 to 1600 dpi (I hope you understood that:)

Lastly, how to eliminate mouse acceleration completely? Is it enough to just tick off the box in the windows mouse settings and in your mouse software, or do you need to uninstall/install some programs to not let it interfere with your mouse tracking ?(and then being able to build up your muscle memory faster)

I hope it wasn't too long! Maybe I'm complicating this too much but I just like the feeling of getting all the settings "just right".

Any answers would be greatly appreciated !

i am left handed with my mouse in my right hand. i think it would be better to just keep it in your right hand if you have been holding a mouse in that hand since forever because you already have the hand-eye coordination with that hand.

@hands: whatever works best for you.

@sensitivity: don't touch the pointer speed or ingame sens, it's better to adjust by dpi like you said. Leave pointer speed and sens at defaults.

@acceleration: Google the registry fix for it. Makes a huuuge difference.

Thanks for the fast answers! I think I might just move back to using the mouse with my right, and improve from there. Its rather tedious to play all the normal difficulties again to improve my left hand. But the question about whether I would turn out better or not if I played with mouse in my left hand for a couple of months is bugging me...

i dont think so, unless you alreay mastered the art of pressing buttons with your right hand. in the end i think its harder to learn to be accurate and fast than it is to aim with your non dominant hand/arm

When I got a Wacom tablet in March, I swapped from playing right-handed on mouse to playing left-handed. It took me at least 2 months to get my streaming speed up to where it was when I was playing right-handed, but my aim wasn't affected much by my switch. I can still play using mouse on a much higher level than when I first switched (although it's not up to par with my tablet accuracy, but I feel that it's a result of not playing much with a mouse rather than a result of switching hands). So IMO it's better to just stick to using your right hand if you're already used to it.

FYI, the Razer mice have 100dpi steps because of the use of interpolation. (it's practically the same as raising your DPI to max and lowering your sensitivity in-game/in Windows). Most other mice avoid this (or only use 50% interpolation, i.e. 400/1600dpi on a 800/3200dpi sensor) because it has the potential of reducing the precision of your mouse. I'm not quite sure how much of an effect this'll have though.
Also, the Razer Taipan is a laser mouse, meaning you'll never be able to completely disable mouse acceleration (it's a flaw in the sensor). If you really wanted to go buy a zero-acceleration ambidextrous mouse, I think your options would be limited to the Zowie AM and the Intelimouse Optical 1.1A. Most zero-acceleration mice are only right-handed.