My wrist sits on a little mousepad cushion which keeps my palm up a bit. I can feel the top of the mouse against my palm from time to time, but very lightly, and I'm not really resting on it. What do regular guitar players do? Just use their thumb? How do you press the strings soundly enough without having the rest of your hand on the other side? Clearly I was a bad guitar player but my mouse method seems to be serving me all right. This is bringing me back to learning to play the guitar as a teenager when I also held my palm flat against the back of the neck. How do these claw-grip people keep their fingers from just constantly clicking at random times by accident? It's the counterweight to my naturally not-dexterous fingers. My palm is the anchor that holds everything together.
![holding a mouse in closed hands holding a mouse in closed hands](https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/selection-cursors-5/24/link_pointer_hand_over_finger-256.png)
I'm a palm gripper and it's not that I think everyone else is wrong, I just don't understand how they do it. I'm just waiting for one of you savages to slap my wrists with a ruler. It's official, in our modern age teachers will no longer deride kids and coworkers for holding their pencils wrong.
![holding a mouse in closed hands holding a mouse in closed hands](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/female-hand-computer-mouse-11741857.jpg)
But I don't care, so just leave me alone while I go back to intermittently wiggling my mouse around with my wrist, only to realize it's ineffective and I've got another bad habit to break.
![holding a mouse in closed hands holding a mouse in closed hands](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/man-s-hand-holds-mouse-working-computer-pain-his-hand-close-up-man-s-hand-holds-mouse-working-121778684.jpg)
I don't really think about how I'm holding my mouse much, to be honest-I probably do all the things "wrong" that Tyler was just talking about. I can only see someone doing the palm grip if they either have smaller hands or a very large mouse. I guess we're batting a thousand right now, because I also use the fingertip grip.