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What about the mouse?

I use mouse a lot and don't feel like I really giving this habit up because the general ecosystem of apps you have to use if programming is not your primary job and terminal is not your primary environment is not particularly keyboard-friendly.

Does this device offer an efficient (perhaps something trackpoint-like) way to move your mouse pointer without moving your hand between it and the mouse?

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Oddly enough no. I would have though that had been thought I to the design since it’s such a natural extension. But no, the CEO has TikTok’s playing Valorant, and he’s using a mouse and only the left side. Which also makes it slightly odd when he makes claims like “characorder helped me win” because when has the speed of keyboard entry ever been the limiting factor in an FPS?

The device currently offers a switch, available to either hand, that moves the mouse up, down, left, right. You can use them both at the same time for diagonal movements and same direction movements to increase the speed--but it's nothing you'd want to use in an FPS and that's why you see Riley playing with the CC in one hand and mouse in the other.

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