Right-side Gamepad for Carpal Tunnel

Enc

Good morning, all!

I'm looking to get a gift for Mrs. Enc, who is ambidextrous and also has carpal tunnel. She plays a bunch of PC RPG games and has a lot of trouble with the mouse with her right hand. Mapping the keys on her keyboard gets tiresome for her, so I was hoping to find a gamepad/keypad for her that would allow her to just swap out which hand she is using for gaming. The problem is, everything I find that looks useful is clearly designed for use with the left hand.

Does anyone know of a company that sells gamepads for the right hand? The optimal configuration here is mouse on the left, keypad on the right, normal keyboard in the middle.

Thanks!

dispatch.o

You can buy a numpad that is stand alone. It should be enough for WASD style directional control as long as the game allows key binding.

You can go further and get various versions of a compact keyboard and a stand alone numpad that you move around so you're not taking up extra space on the desk with duplicate number pads.

Some things to be aware of though.

Unlike a normal keyboard, number pads are in an aligned grid. Number pads also don't have the same key access - alt, shift, ctrl, tab. Lots of games don't let you rebind that stuff.

This $21 half-keyboard was the most side-neutral one I saw in a quick search. I think you'll really want to preserve access to the modifier keys. With some digging you can probably find a more expensive version of the half-keyboard that's mechanical and exactly what you want.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-custom-keyboard-layout-windows/

Make a custom layout and use a shortcut key to swap to it whenever you launch a game.

I've used a standalone numpad, it was fine but I didn't play games on it. I've never tried to rebind a bunch of keys over and over but it would be awful.

Edit:

Carpal tunnel sucks. I hope she can get it fixed soon, even if she is blessed with ambidexterity.

Enc

Thanks, dispatch.o! We're really looking for the more specific gamepad style ones, with the built in palm rest and the whole left WSAD area pre-mapped so she doesn't have to keep remapping keys though.

dispatch.o

Ahh. So a Nostromo type pad for the right hand.

https://store.azeron.eu/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=73

The only one I know of that lets you pick a version for left handed mouse users. Reviews seem okay and it's expensive, hopefully there's something else out there. It does look very cool and comes in hand sizes and stuff.

BlazeFire

Can you give some examples of the left handed ones you have seen?

16 key programmable macropads are a thing but I don't know if that would be enough