Poll...are you right or left handed?

[look 171]

Originally Posted by johnco

first or second grade I lost use of my right arm for maybe a year or two after a nasty lawn mower accident. I had to learn to do everything left handed. somethings I still do right handed. other things only with my left although I could do it either way if needed. bored in college I would take notes right handed one page and left on the the other page. sometimes backwards upside down and the opposite way on the right the same time.
found a note book from a notory class I took in the 80s and another from a real estate course under other books I had saved for some reason. thumbing thru the pages I had to turn the book all around or hold it infront of a mirror to read what I had written. hmmm maybe if I had spent less time learning to write so wierd and spent more time studying the notes maybe things might have turned out different later in life.. nahhh not many people ever develop cool skills so difficult to master but completely useless to have. divinci wrote his notes backwards to keep others from reading them. he was a genius. I wrote my notes in so many directions I couldn't read them. I'm an idiot

If you use that useless skill here, you will beat out Oddjob for sure.

I can only use my left to scratch my right hand. That's it.

[HHI944]

righty, though I do use my left hand for a lot of dominant things....though some of that is just consciously using it more to keep it limbered up from my wreck years ago that resulted in my wrist getting lots of pretty titanium jewelry for a few weeks...

[Schumi]

In a similar case as johnco, I broke my right arm near the wrist in the 1st grade, both bones, 3 places. Didn't take a correct set and had to be rebroken. I couldn't use that arm for months, and used my left for drawing, writing, everything.

I went back to using the right for writing after the arm healed but still kept using the left for a lot of things.

I can write with both, but it looks different. Still readable, but different slant to everything. I reverse most things like fork & knife usage, scissors, etc. - use predominantly my left hand for those things. I've also been told I 'clap wrong' - giving applause, I clap left-hand on-top. I had never thought about that one until recently.

[HarryD]

Lefty for one handed tasks, mostly righty for two handed tasks.

Random lefty question. Why do most door knobs turn the wrong way?

[LeeH]

I'm pretty much right down the middle. I write left handed. Shoot right handed. Eat left handed. Cut right handed. Kick right footed. Bat left handed. Use a right handed glove. Throw a football left handed. Hammer either handed. Am right eye dominant. Use right handed scissors and right handed mouse. Bowl left handed.

I think I lean left. So an item like a pencil has no handedness, so it went left. Toy holsters were all on the right. Kicking? My brothers set me up for right footed kicking with a football. Bat? No handedness, so it went left. Glove? Brothers had right handed gloves.

[KFC911]

The percentage of "amphibians" actually surprises me....didn't expect that at all.

[Schumi]

I consider myself ambi since I feel that I can switch hands at any time doing any activity and perform pretty much identically. I think that's the definition of the ability.

I'm not sure most who answer that way though could do any and every task with both. Doing a few things left and a few things right handed isn't actually what being ambidextrous is.

[KFC911]

I agree with your definition too and believe you are correct regarding the poll results.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Lefty with occasional right tendencies.

Same here.
Writing, lefty.
Computer mouse, righty.

Imo ambidextrous means you can switch hands when writing a letter and your writing doesn't go from schoolyard quality to schoolyard hieroglyphics...

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by KC911

The percentage of "amphibians" actually surprises me....didn't expect that at all.

I always had a tendency towards bi-handual and my job just fine tuned it. The only thing I can't do left handed it bat, but then again my average isn't so hot right handed either.

[drcoastline]

Left handed 98% of the time. I play golf right handed and use scissors right handed. That's what was available so that's what I learned. I was a switch hitter when I played baseball.

Everything else is Left handed.

Supposedly only left handed people can hold a writing instrument in each hand and write forward and backward simultaneously.

[Tobra]

I write and throw right handed. I hit a baseball better left handed and golf better right handed, but can do both pretty well from the other side. Tennis either right or left, serve better as a righty. Mostly right handed I would say.

[on2wheels52]

A higher than expected percentage of 'sinister' folks here.
Jim

[fingpilot]

Originally Posted by DARISC

I have an ambidextrous friend who is an orthopedic surgeon. He told me that he's "truly" ambidextrous and named a simple way to test for "true" ambidexterity.

Before I reveal it, anyone here know what that test is?

Well, when I was first 'dispatched' to the middle east, our 'brief' included the admonition to NEVER use your left hand to pass anything or do anything with it in the presence of a middle easterner.

Does the test have anything to do with paperwork 'after'?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by on2wheels52

A higher than expected percentage of 'sinister' folks here.
Jim

Naw....I added up the percentages....100%... just about what I was expecting

[matt f]

Originally Posted by DARISC

I have an ambidextrous friend who is an orthopedic surgeon. He told me that he's "truly" ambidextrous and named a simple way to test for "true" ambidexterity.

Before I reveal it, anyone here know what that test is?

I'll give it a shot.
Hammering a nail or any task where your "off" fingers/hand are in danger of injury.

[regency]

krichard............You described me too. Q: When you serve a tennis ball, Racquet in right hand, after the serve, do you switch the racquet to you're left hand to finish the volley?

1973 911T MFI Coupe, Aubergine

Steve

[Don Ro]

Who's the athlete who is left handed but participates right handedly?
Is it Andrew Luck?...thinkin'...
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I'm a righty, BTW.

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Supposedly only left handed people can hold a writing instrument in each hand and write forward and backward simultaneously.

I'm nauseous all of a sudden.

[Iciclehead]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

Same here.
Writing, lefty.
Computer mouse, righty.

Imo ambidextrous means you can switch hands when writing a letter and your writing doesn't go from schoolyard quality to schoolyard hieroglyphics...

True, as long as you accept that with the right hand I write left to right, with the left hand I write what is considered "backwards" and from right to left.

I am also out of practice writing the alternative way, partly as people have trouble reading it for some reason.

Dennis