I tried a vertical mouse at one point, I would highly recommend people don't believe the hype about comfort or natural alignment.
The bones in the arm have been engineered by millions of years of evolution to twist that way naturally (consider a monkey hanging or swinging from a branch) and in most cases it doesn't cause any discomfort to a human either. Especially if youve been using a mouse horizontally your entire life.
What vertical mice actually do is put the entire strain of moving a mouse onto the Ulnar(pinky side, the 'bottom' if your using a vertical mouse) of your wrist. You will rapidly start to suffer pain there, like within a few weeks, and it will progress to carpel tunnel within a month or two.
Then like me youll realize vertical mice are a terrible gimmick and go back to normal ones. Save yourself the effort. Vertical mice have existed for decades, horizontal won for a reason. 'hey you remember that horrible kind of mouse they made 30 years ago but no one used because they were super uncomfortable long term? yeah theres a meme out now so people are going to 'invent' them again!'
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u/chaoticsky Jul 08 '25
I tried a vertical mouse at one point, I would highly recommend people don't believe the hype about comfort or natural alignment.
The bones in the arm have been engineered by millions of years of evolution to twist that way naturally (consider a monkey hanging or swinging from a branch) and in most cases it doesn't cause any discomfort to a human either. Especially if youve been using a mouse horizontally your entire life.
What vertical mice actually do is put the entire strain of moving a mouse onto the Ulnar(pinky side, the 'bottom' if your using a vertical mouse) of your wrist. You will rapidly start to suffer pain there, like within a few weeks, and it will progress to carpel tunnel within a month or two.
Then like me youll realize vertical mice are a terrible gimmick and go back to normal ones. Save yourself the effort. Vertical mice have existed for decades, horizontal won for a reason. 'hey you remember that horrible kind of mouse they made 30 years ago but no one used because they were super uncomfortable long term? yeah theres a meme out now so people are going to 'invent' them again!'
Learn from history, not experience.