I tried a number of those and couldn’t get used to it. I’d get soreness and cramps after the same amount of time but in different locations mostly around the thumb where the skin stretches when you do pistol hands.
In the most recent past I’d been using the elecom huge trackball but it’s not without it’s issues either. I don’t actually recommend elecom they have quality control issues and the deft has the most infuriating mouse wheel. Thumb trackball gave me similar soreness to vertical mouse, and index finger trackball the back of my hand where the fingers attach.
Now I’m using just the steam deck and a Thinkpad laptop lately and those also introduce their own flavour of hand strain after a while.
Apart from the high cost of the hobby, we have reached an era of peak keyboard greatness, but we don’t seem have many immediately apparent custom mouse options. Not that I would have any idea what wouldn’t hurt me physically. Maybe one of the diy keyboards with a built in trackball.
For ergonomics, it’s a great office mouse. But just a heads up you’re clicking horizontally so you slightly move the cursor every time you click. Kinda bad for gaming.
it’s like gripping the pistol-style grip on a rifle. benefit: you’ll use your elbow and arm muscles more in moving it around, placing less stress on the wrist muscles. It’s a much more natural grip.
I really wish, they would release a gaming oriented vertical mouse. High DPI sensor, good clicker switches, etc. Right now stuck with my Logitech lift that tops out at 4000 dpi and has mushy switches.
Vertical gaming mice are good in theory, but they’re bad for aim. Since you’re clicking vertically, you actually very slightly move your mouse with each click. It throws off your aim :/
That and I claw grip too hard to ever get comfortable with them. But to each their own.
I have a MX Vertical at work and Logi Ergos (both the 570 and a MX Ergo) at home, they are great. Love the battery life of the MX Ergo, I sometimes forget I even have to charge the damn thing. However I did have to change the main buttons in the MX Ergo, the switch were failing and it ended up double clicking
PgUp/PgDown when easily possible to use (the webpage/program isn’t crap etc) is very quick. If that doesn’t work, i can probably still outscroll or at least match you with two thumb scroll on the touchpad.
What I’m genuinely not sure about is how healthy touchpaddin’ is on the wrist… but i’ve been doing it for about 25 years without major issues so i guess i at last for used to it.
at least match you with two thumb scroll on the touchpad.
Depends what kind of wheel they’re rollin’. Some, a single flick of the finger is enough to keep it rolling high-speed for a while. Even if you could keep up with that, it would be miserable unless you had momentum settings set to impractical levels.
Trackpoints are great, they’re my second choice when I can’t use a trackball for some reason. Unfortunately, it’s basically impossible to design a split keyboard with a trackpoint.
I bought a wireless cheap brand one from Officeworks in Australia for $20AUD to see if I liked the form factor.
I did so I ultimately went and bought my Logitech Lift which has been great for study and general use, although I still go for my traditional gaming mouse over it if I’m gaming.
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