Left or right handed?

[Ymir's blood]

Are you left handed, right handed or ambidextrous?

I was right handed for most of my life, but did some tasks with my left. After a bout of tendonitis in my right arm several years ago, I learned to do more with my left and now mostly use whichever hand is more convenient. Except for writing, though. I can print with my left hand, but only in large messy letters.

[viscousmemories]

Are you left handed, right handed or ambidextrous?

I was right handed for most of my life, but did some tasks with my left. After a bout of tendonitis in my right arm several years ago, I learned to do more with my left and now mostly use whichever hand is more convenient. Except for writing, though. I can print with my left hand, but only in large messy letters.
I'm strictly a northpaw. Or whatever right-handed is.

[Corona688]

yog on a yogacycle, surely I'm not the ONLY lefty at ff? :glare: I can only write with my left hand, though oddly, I can only mouse with my right. Which is convenient when operating both...

[Dingfod]

Normalpaw.

When I broke my right hand I was put on light duty at work because I had a cast from my elbow to my fingertips. Unfortunately, the only light duty job we had was the control board. The control board operator had to keep a running event log. This was well before PCs so they were all hand-written notes. I got pretty good at writing in large slow block letters with my left hand, but not before I tried everything I could to write with the cast on my right hand including sticking a pen down through the thumb hole and moving my whole arm to write. My left hand is lame by comparison to my right, even playing the piano I notice the last two fingers on my left hand are much much weaker than the same fingers on my right hand. I suppose this is from disuse. Anyway, despite my father being a South Pa, I'm naturally right-handed.

[Legs]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

[Crumb]

:biglaugh: Thank you legs. That was brilliant.

[livius drusus]

I'm right-handed but I do have a left-handed shot in pool. I developed it so I wouldn't like a total gomer using the bridge all the damn time.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Left.

[One for Sorrow]

Lefty here, although I used to take notes with my right hand in math class--it forced me to concentrate. :sleepy:

[Dingfod]

I'm right-handed but I do have a left-handed shot in pool. I developed it so I wouldn't like a total gomer using the bridge all the damn time.Me too. I think I might actually be a better pool player left handed, but I've never tried to play a whole game that way.

When I played slowpitch softball, I would switch hit, batting left-handed every other time. I was equally good left handed. I could hit anything thrown anywhere near home plate; good or bad pitches, didn't matter, I could put a bat on it. Can't say I'm good at much of anything else. Can't throw worth a damn left-handed.

[xouper]

warrenly: ... even playing the piano I notice the last two fingers on my left hand are much much weaker than the same fingers on my right hand. I suppose this is from disuse.
My left pinkie gets as much work as any other finger when I play piano. Maybe 'cause I like honkin' the bass octaves with left thumb and pinkie simultaneously. Like in the intro to Bob Seeger's "Old Time Rock and Roll".

Just take those old records off the shelf
I sit and listen to them by my self
Todays music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock and roll

Other than that, I'm right handed. Except playing hockey, where I'm a leftie. Interestingly, a lot of right handed hockey players shoot left handed. Don't know why that is.

[TheMasses]

Left.

Although I do almost everything except write with my right. :hrm:

I'm the product of a right handed world. :dunce:

[SharonDee]

Aw, cripes. I just clicked that I'm left-handed when I'm really right-handed. And I even clicked it with my right hand, the supposed "smart" one. :doh:

Where's the option for ham-handed?

So... since this poll is so freakin' important and shit... please substract one from the leftie results and add one to the rightie results when you're lookin' at 'em.

I need to get a grip; anybody know where I can find one?

[Crumb]

I need to get a grip; anybody know where I can find one?

Try your RIGHT hand. :wink:

[Ymir's blood]

I need to get a grip; anybody know where I can find one?
Do you need one for the left or right hand?

[SharonDee]

Har-har, y'all. I can't believe I left myself open like that. :P

And now I'm thinking of grippies, Jeff Foxworthy's word for tighty whities.

[freemonkey]

I'm right handed. When I was a kid, I worked at trying to be ambidextrous, but I was too lazy to keep it up.

[Ymir's blood]

Har-har, y'all. I can't believe I left myself open like that. :P
Well if you want to do so, it's your right.

[pescifish]

Right. The only thing my left hand is any good for is to keep my wristwatch from falling off.

[xouper]

xouper: Other than that, I'm right handed. Except playing hockey, where I'm a leftie. Interestingly, a lot of right handed hockey players shoot left handed. Don't know why that is.
I forgot to mention, when piloting a Cessna, I fly it with my left hand. Right hand works the throttle, flaps, radios, switches, etc, and on occasion reaches over and latches the jump door shut after the skydivers have left.

Not to mention that playing guitar often requires both hands.

[Shake]

Righty here, but I deal cards and count money left-handed.

[wei yau]

Born left handed. Currently, right handed. This was achieved through frequent rapping of my knuckles with a pair of chopsticks whenever I used the "wrong" hand.

[Beth]

I type solely right handed, unless I am in the mod to use both hands, but I still manage to type very fast, as fast as I would if I were using both hands. I usually right with my right hand, but can use both. I only can use chop sticks with my right hand. I shoot left handed and cannot shoot right handed. I also arch left handed. I am a left handed batter when I play with my family, although I sometimes try to bat right handed to help my son out with pitching.

I was born left handed, but broke my hand and found myself unable to write with my cast. I was in kindergarten and learning handwriting. I used my right hand, instead, and thar she goes.

[godfry n. glad]

Right-handed.

Um... Why is it that there are those who are ambidextrous, but nobody is, or wants to be, ambisinistrous?

[Legs]

Left-handed people 'don't die young'

In times past, left-handed people were thought to be the children of the devil, but a scientific study published this week suggests that sinistrals are not as cursed as was once thought.
Some studies have indicated that left handers are more likely to die prematurely than their right handed counterparts. It was thought that left handers may be more prone to accidents because their sense of spatial awareness is not as acute as right handers.

But new research in the Lancet suggests that left handers are at no greater risk of dying earlier.

Article here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/latest_news/102354.stm

[ceptimus]

I use my left hand to type many common letters: E, R, S, T, A, B, C, and many of the common symbols: ", $, %, !, and the lowest digits 1 - 6, which tend to be more common than 7 to 9, though I do type the zero with my right hand. Perhaps the inventor of the qwerty keyboard was a lefty? :chin:

When playing musical instruments, I think it's strange that right handed players often do the most difficult stuff with their 'worse' hand. I think this is true of the guitar and the violin family - strumming or bowing is easier than holding the strings in the right place to get the notes and chords, in my opinion.

I play the piano accordion and I think the bass end of that (which I have to play with my left hand) is harder to work than the treble end. I recommend a course of piano accordion practise to anyone who has trouble coordinating both hands. The layout of the bass buttons is logical, in its own way, but completely different to the treble end (for example the notes of the Major C scale are laid out F C G D A E B). You have to split your mind down the middle to master the thing.

In the UK, we mostly drive stick-shift cars, and we all change gear left handed.

I play tetris right handed, but I think that's just because the cursor keys are on the right side of the keyboard - I'll have to try it left handed one day, to see if I can.

[Abdul Alhazred]

BTW, Ceptimus, how the Hell do you do that?