Poll: WASD or Arrow Keys?

[Death God]

WASD keys due to the fact that I have a trackpad and it feels weird to over stretch my left hand over my right and I only use my right hand for the track pad and hitting delete. Plus, my left hand is really shaky and the trackpad wiggles all over the place because of it.

 

[mattaui]

Arrow keys? ARROW KEYS? I think the only place I ever even touch those is when I'm doing real work in Office.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

WASD cause I can type better and faster with my right hand.

 

[Kaltazraza]

WASD for life.

 

[thenoblitt]

wasd easier to click all the other keys especially since its standard for space to be jump

 

[Zaverexus]

WASD when the option is available. I need to be able to use my mouse and it feels much more natural.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Yeah, essentially the title.

I'm just used to WASD, so... yeah.

What, you want CONTEXT? Well... TOO BAD! MWAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA!

Both! Play 2 characters at the same time!

What, it works in Gauntlet.

But seriously, I generally prefer WASD because it's easier for me to do that and use the mouse than use the arrow keys and the mouse. If for some weird reason I were to play a game that didn't use a mouse, I might conceivably use the arrow keys. But probably not--there are just too many damn useful keys in easy reach if you use WASD instead of the arrow keys.

 

[The Lugz]

neither, none and no.

i have a g13 for this, its a little old now but it still works excellently
i don't have my hands on the keyboard anymore at all, just on my g13 pad and mouse either side of it, and i chat typing is painfully slow.
my keyboard is quite underused these days, mostly for text entry commands are taken up by other devices

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I usually use WASD for most PC games.

 

[FireSpore]

Hey look, someone else who has ascended to the ways of EDSF. Awesome and also clearly the correct answer.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Been using ESDF ever since I had to switch from arrow keys once I laid my hands on Quake 15 years ago.

Its a hassle to reconfigure controls with every game, but I could never understand why WASD is used instead. You have much better reach for keys with ESDF, 8 extra keys to use and you still can easily reach for Tab, Shift, Ctrl and Caps Lock.

Agreed, ESDF allows me to rest my little finger on the A button which I assign to crouch.

 

[PanicxBoss]

W
SAD

 

[v3n0mat3]

WASD. In my younger years, I did Arrow keys. But I gave that up quickly, and I'm not going back.

 

[XDravond]

WASD of course except maybe for simple driving games or maybe flash games then I might consider using the arrow keys..

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Arrow keys. If I have to move my hand off the keyboard for whatever reason, the arrow keys are a lot easier to find than WSAD. I use the numpad, the "home row" and the rightmost keys on the main section (backspace, enter, etc.) as well as my mouse buttons for any required extra functions.

 

[pearcinator]

Arrow Keys cos im a lefty.

 

[Fiery Killer]

In most cases WASD. My only exception is world of warcraft because there's a shitload of hotkeys you need to play successfully. I hate having to crowd my hands together and the arrow keys are out of the way so I'll just use that and then I have the entire rest of the keyboard for my hotkeys.

 

[Justin Putze]

WASD definetly