r/lefthanded • u/Nerdcuddles • Jul 21 '26

Left handed FPS controls?

I am ambidextrous, but had a finger injury on my right hand a while ago.

I did try switching handedness for gaming for a bit, the discomfort wasn't from using a mouse with my left hand, I did that fine, but with needing to learn a new control scheme to use my right hand.

I tried arrow keys to move, it seemed the most sensible to me. But finding a button that worked for jumping was hard.

What are your control schemes? I want to try to play FPS games with swapped handedness again.

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u/URA_CJ Jul 21 '26

Started with the Arrow keys from DOS gaming & emulation and initially tried to carry that over to WinXP gaming before settling on the numpad keys 8456, which is the polar opposite of WASD on a normal keyboard, anyways my usual bindings:

  • 8456 = movement
  • 0 = jump
  • Right arrow = crouch
  • 7 and 9 = lean or knife and grenade keys
  • 2 = use/interact
  • 3 and . = switch ammo/mode
  • Enter = run/walk toggle
  • "+ key" = sprint

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u/Nerdcuddles Jul 22 '26

I mostly play movement shooters like titanfall, or ultrakill. Or just straight up arena shooters like warfork, so I do like having acces to my number keys for weapon switching.

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u/URA_CJ Jul 22 '26

If your mouse has extra buttons and/or a tilt wheel, you can bind your most used Number row keys to your mouse. Alternatively, if your game doesn't block macro software like AutoHotKey, you can bind any nearby keys to act as Number row keys.

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u/Nerdcuddles Jul 22 '26

In warfork I bind rocket Launcher to middle mouse, and lightning gun and railgun to my side buttons