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03/07/2013 04:28:03 PM · #1 |
Ok, just for fun, let's see who's left handed here! Ambidextrous people and part time lefties may also apply :)
Interestingly, I am left handed, not very ambidextrous. But I learned when I used to share a computer with someone at work (back when not everyone had their own!) to use the mouse with my right hand, so we didn't have to keep switching things around. Now I can only use my right for the mouse. But everything else, my left. |
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03/07/2013 04:37:25 PM · #2 |
I'm not a leftie, but - a great book that I would recommend is "Left Hand Right Hand" by Chris McManus (IIRC) Harvard Press?...
Anyway - great read, fascinating study of handedness and chirality in general in the universe. |
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03/07/2013 04:40:07 PM · #3 |
| I have done pretty much everything right-handed for about as long as I can remember... but in tests of handedness, I come up left handed! I didn't discover this until I was in my late 30s. |
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03/07/2013 04:42:07 PM · #4 |
I'm left handed verging on ambi-dexterous. When I was a child I used to write with both but after a while I chose my left. I also play miniature golf left handed (though I haven't played for years) but I do just about everything else right handed.
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03/07/2013 04:45:08 PM · #5 |
| i always found it funny that the freaks have to adjust their hand when the write so they don't smear what they just wrote. |
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03/07/2013 04:45:18 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I have done pretty much everything right-handed for about as long as I can remember... but in tests of handedness, I come up left handed! I didn't discover this until I was in my late 30s. |
This is interesting. I never knew there were tests. Long ago everyone was forced to be right handed. I'm not sure right handedness was forced on her but my mother has always been convinced she should have been left handed. It does seem to run in her family. My first cousin on my mother's side is left handed too.
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03/07/2013 04:56:21 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
i always found it funny that the freaks have to adjust their hand when the write so they don't smear what they just wrote. |
Unless they write the other direction, as many languages do.
You know, for a long time left handed people have been persecuted, if it was a genetic trait they would be an oppressed people. (Interestingly, it's not genetic, and it's pretty much equally prevalent around the world, something between 5 and 15 percent in any given group, and it's probable that the majority of the difference is due to cultural bias) |
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03/07/2013 04:56:41 PM · #8 |
| When I was younger I framed houses to put myself through college. My boss was a nice man, but worked me hard and scared me a bit. One day I was in an awkward location and so was hammering something with my left hand. My boss looked up and asked me if I was amphibious. I was too scared to disagree... |
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03/07/2013 04:58:16 PM · #9 |
| ... as a kid I tried to write with my left, but my Grandma would make sure to " fix" that. I can use left or right for most things... |
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03/07/2013 05:10:30 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
...My boss looked up and asked me if I was amphibious. I was too scared to disagree... |
Your wet history with camera equipment tends to support his theory! |
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03/07/2013 05:32:07 PM · #11 |
| I am left handed but right armed. For fine motor skills I use my left hand (e.g., writing with pencil and paper). Large motor skills I use my right (e.g., throwing, swinging a bat or racquet). I am ambidextrous doing things like writing on a chalkboard -- start with my left hand and finish with my right. |
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03/07/2013 05:39:00 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
I'm left handed verging on ambi-dexterous. When I was a child I used to write with both but after a while I chose my left. I also play miniature golf left handed (though I haven't played for years) but I do just about everything else right handed. |
I'm right-handed, but since I was a kid I've practiced doing some things with my left, such as eating European-style keeping the fork in the left hand when using a knife. I can throw a baseball or football with my left hand, though not as far or hard as right-handed, I have switch-hit playing softball, and kicked with both feet when I played soccer. On the golf course I can only hit irons right-handed, but I can putt almost equally well (that is to say poorly) either way, and I'm pretty good playing table-tennis or pool with my left. I play guitar, and I'm pretty sure that people who play an instrument will often be closer to the ambidextrous part of the scale than the average.
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
When I was younger I framed houses to put myself through college. My boss was a nice man, but worked me hard and scared me a bit. One day I was in an awkward location and so was hammering something with my left hand. My boss looked up and asked me if I was amphibious. I was too scared to disagree... |
I get strange looks when I tell people my mother is a practicing thespian ... ;-)
Message edited by author 2013-03-07 17:43:11. |
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03/07/2013 05:45:23 PM · #13 |
I am right handed, but I shoot a rifle left handed. Has nothing to do with favouring that side though. 20-150 vision in my right eye pretty much made sure I wasn't going to hit anything I was aiming for 8-(
I had 20-15 in my left, so I was actually a decent shot. Of course every gun I used was right handed, so it typically made reloading a little more challenging.
On a different note, most Canadian NHL players play and shoot left (over 60%) even though they are right handed. Less so for Americans, but they are still well beyond the actual percentage for actually being left handed. |
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03/07/2013 05:48:49 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by rcollier:
On a different note, most Canadian NHL players play and shoot left (over 60%) even though they are right handed. Less so for Americans, but they are still well beyond the actual percentage for actually being left handed. |
Probably for the same reason a lot of baseball catchers (universally right-handed throwers) learn to bat left-handed -- as a rarer commodity you have a better chance of making the team. I wasn't that great a soccer player, but I got to play a lot because I was willing (and mostly able) to play left wing ... |
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03/07/2013 07:15:09 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by markwiley:
I am left handed but right armed. For fine motor skills I use my left hand (e.g., writing with pencil and paper). Large motor skills I use my right (e.g., throwing, swinging a bat or racquet). I am ambidextrous doing things like writing on a chalkboard -- start with my left hand and finish with my right. |
This^ Except for the chalkboard thing. That's just kooky.
I think it came from my left-handed Mom teaching me to do some things, and my right-handed Dad teaching me to do others. |
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03/07/2013 07:19:10 PM · #16 |
i am left handed. however, i use a mouse right handed (and i'm a desktop support tech, i often sit at desks with a "left" mouse and it just feels wrong)
however, i also use my right hand to bowl. seems i can barely lift a 16 with my left.
everything else lefty |
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03/07/2013 07:44:54 PM · #17 |
When I started school, a long time ago, Connecticut schools insisted there were no left-handed children.
So, I write atrociously, right-handed, and can do mirror writing equally atrociously, left-handed.
It was easy to become ambidextrous and easier still to cope with this world of ours using whatever hand
is handy, so to speak.
I use the computer mouse however it happens to be positioned.
When I draw or paint, I do the left side of the picture with the left hand and the
right side with the right hand. Those who use pastels will appreciate the
serendipity of this. |
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03/07/2013 11:14:15 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by mike_311:
i always found it funny that the freaks have to adjust their hand when the write so they don't smear what they just wrote. |
Unless they write the other direction, as many languages do. |
Interestingly, Arabic is written from right to left with the right hand.
The left hand is used to handle defecation, and is the unclean hand. |
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03/07/2013 11:45:41 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by alohadave:
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by mike_311:
i always found it funny that the freaks have to adjust their hand when the write so they don't smear what they just wrote. |
Unless they write the other direction, as many languages do. |
Interestingly, Arabic is written from right to left with the right hand.
The left hand is used to handle defecation, and is the unclean hand. |
although interesting, Arabic numbers are written left to right!:)
(I'm in my second semester of intensive Arabic) :) |
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03/08/2013 01:20:36 AM · #20 |
Left handed for all one handed activities (writing, tennis, throwing)
Right handed for all two handed activities (golf, cricket)
But I am pretty ambidextrous thanks to all you right handers designing everything to suit you - like rifle grips (as already mentioned), cake forks, fish knives, buttons on microwaves, numerical keypads on keyboards etc
Interstingly I am solidly only right footed for kicking. My left foot... well that is a movie |
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03/08/2013 01:52:17 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
... I've practiced doing some things with my left, such as eating European-style keeping the fork in the left hand when using a knife. |
I'm intrigued - do Americans hold their knives and forks the opposite way round? |
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03/08/2013 06:14:59 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
... I've practiced doing some things with my left, such as eating European-style keeping the fork in the left hand when using a knife. |
I'm intrigued - do Americans hold their knives and forks the opposite way round? |
We're kind of dumb. We put our fork in our left hand to use our knife with our right hand. Then we switch the fork to the right hand to eat. |
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03/08/2013 06:41:38 AM · #23 |
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03/08/2013 07:00:07 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by Silent-Shooter:
My left foot... well that is a movie |
had to be somewhere in this thread |
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03/08/2013 07:15:58 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by SaraR:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
... I've practiced doing some things with my left, such as eating European-style keeping the fork in the left hand when using a knife. |
I'm intrigued - do Americans hold their knives and forks the opposite way round? |
We're kind of dumb. We put our fork in our left hand to use our knife with our right hand. Then we switch the fork to the right hand to eat. |
Definitely sounds dumb. But you said it first, otherwise I wouldn't have put it that way :)
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