Are you left or right handed? Ambi-dextrous even? (Can use both hands)

Are you left or right handed/ambi-dextrous?

  • Left handed

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • Right handed

    Votes: 5 38.5%

  • Ambi-dextrous

    Votes: 5 38.5%

  • Don't know either way

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Total voters
    13
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Are you left or right handed or ambi-dextrous (can use both hands), vote in the poll and discuss on a cold/wet Sunday morning.

Personally I can use both but I'm predominantly right handed (like when I'm doing my Martial Arts, I'm best in left leg stance, right leg kicks, right hand punches, my left leg kicks/left hand punches are a bit weak)
 
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Write left handed, watch on right wrist but almost everything else like using cutlery, tools etc. is right handed.
My writing is terrible, at school I was made to write right handed because left handers were stupid or something. Teacher stood over me and hit me with a ruler when I tried to use my left.
 
Ambidextrous here. I always mix left and right up and also, from a photography point of view, getting an image to read correctly can sometimes be difficult when it comes to composition. We read books left to right and we tend to read images the same way but I really struggle with it.

I write with my right hand, kick a ball with my left foot.
 
I hold the camera in my left hand and use the right index finger to press the shooty thingy! :lol:
 
I am relatively ambidextrous. When I was young I was left handed and like @Steep it was forced out of me as it wasn’t “correct”.

When I was younger I could still write with both hands and to this day will do lots of things with a left hand bias. If decorating I can paint equally well left handed and likewise using tools such as screwdrivers etc.
I used to get quite angry that I had been forced to change but am now over that. Karma is that my eldest son is left handed and does very well with it but he also has a right bias and the main thing he does left based is write.
 
Left handed here - if it’s stuff done with just one hand then I’ll use my left. But anything that involves using both hands (playing guitar badly, golf - ages ago, knife and fork etc) then I’ll do it as a right hander would…….
 
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Write left handed, watch on right wrist but almost everything else like using cutlery, tools etc. is right handed.
My writing is terrible, at school I was made to write right handed because left handers were stupid or something. Teacher stood over me and hit me with a ruler when I tried to use my left.
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My father had a simiar expereince when he was at school too. He was naturally left handed but forced at school to use his right hand to write.
 
All right here! Trying to think of things I do with the left but mostly it'll just be support for the right. I write, use a mouse, shave, use a toothbrush/hairbrush, open doors/windows even the fridge with my right, even down to washing up I'll scrub with my right hand the left just holding things
 
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Predominately right handed, when I had RSI in my right hand I learnt to use a mouse with my left hand and also learnt a lot of keyboard shortcuts so that I did not use the mouse so much. I still tab between fields on forms for example.
When it comes to screwdrivers, spanners or other DIY tasks I just use whichever hand is best suited for access etc.
 
Write R/H, Racquet sports R/H, bat L/H cricket, play golf R/H, throw R/H, kick a football predominately L/F, shoot R/H.
 
Mostly Left handed. Write with left hand, fork/spoon in left hand, kick with left foot but right handed golf swing. Watch on right wrist. Mouse with right hand.....phone in right hand.
 
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Ambidextrous here. Write left handed, watch on right, phone in right hand, fork in left hand, play golf right handed. Whilst growing up I was predominantly a lefty, swinging a 28oz framing hammer for 20 years taught me to use both hands equally well on the tools.
 
An interesting one!

As others have mentioned, it is for me which hand is dominant.................in my case right handed mostly. Though the left does see use more than just is supporting role, such as tools handling e.g. spanners and screwdriver and maybe even more ways but like all such things I don't actively think about it :)

So ambidextrous no, not in my view of myself.

PS my father as a child was left handed and he was educated during the times when it was seen by the school as "wrong" and his hand got struck many times to "correct his writing". Sadly I cannot recall whether in his adult life he favoured the left hand or not?
 
was naturally right handed until the age of 21 one now predominantly left handed but still write with what's left of my right hand and use knife and forks in a right handed manor
watch on right wrist

dunno where that sits in your poll
 
It isn't that linear for me.
Strongly right-handed, but also strongly left eye dominant.
I have to look through a camera with my left eye, not a problem, I also have to use my left eye when shooting rifles, and mount the rifle in my left shoulder, again not a problem.
But I do a lot of clay shooting and again need to shoot left-handed, which is a challenge.
 
Right handed, and my right eye is dominant. I can use a rifle or shotgun reasonably well from the left shoulder, but I can't shoot a revolver or pistol left handed at all. I shoot with both eyes open though.
 
Steep said:
Write left handed, watch on right wrist but almost everything else like using cutlery, tools etc. is right handed.
My writing is terrible, at school I was made to write right handed because left handers were stupid or something. Teacher stood over me and hit me with a ruler when I tried to use my left.
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Tell me about it :mad: You've hit a raw nerve with me. Exactly the same for me.

Several of our family members are left-handed and I was until those misguided teachers at infant school made me write right-handed . I've had problems ever since.

Here's a few of tales you might appreciate. When I was 18 I worked at Shell, Ellesmere Port. I worked in the control room and one day I saw a colleague writing with his left hand and the writing was sloping backwards. I found writing neatly awkward. Writing with a forward stroke was awkward as was writing straight up. I wondered if writing backwards-sloping would be easier. It was. All muscle strain went. Eureka ! I bought a Schaefer fountain pen at WH Smiths one day. The flow of the ink would stop intermittently. I took it back and the assistant said it was probably the flow mechanism and gave me a new one. I was soon back. She got a piece of paper and asked me to write a sentence and then said that I was writing like a left-handed person but right handed.The flow mechanism was not designed for this I was pushing the ink 'uphill'. One day my mother saw me writing 'backwards' and asked me why. I told her that it was easier. She said I shouldn't do it because writing backwards like that is ...can you believe this ?? ..a sign of a bad character. :eek: I carried on doing it..to this day.

Today,I will come out of a supermarket, if not having bought much and hold the shopping bag in my left hand. I get to the car and which pocket are my keys in ? ..the left. Down goes the bag. Everything I carry immediately goes into the left hand. I find it almost uncomfortable to hold a cup/mug in my right hand so it's always in the left. I have to pour using my left hand as I have more control over it..safer when pouring boiling water out of the kettle. I don't feel safe doing it with my right hand. I hold a knife and fork right-handed but when using only a fork..eg spagboll or a curry.. the fork is in my left hand. Of course my drink is on the left side too. Bread/toast is on a small plate left side. It gets a bit cluttered there...lol. My wife's used to it..lol. It's not set like that when we visit friends for a meal..pre-Covid..lol. Over it all goes to the left side.

In Liverpool I'd joined the RNVR at 17 and we'd go out into the Irish Sea in a minesweeper. We were taught how to tie knots. On the first occasion the instructor told me he couldn't teach me because I was doing it left-handed but CPO (Chief Petty Officer)so and so would be there next week and he'd show me as he's left-handed. When that happened the CPO said I was doing it right-handed. I was unaware. Humiliation too. An Admiral was visiting so we had to form a guard of honour and it included what's called 'present arms'. It's what you see military people do with the rifle ..one hand to the other and across the chest. An anathema to me. I was called out infront of 30 colleagues and the instructor told me to present arms. After I'd done it the rifle trigger was facing the wrong way. The instructor looked at me and said "What a cack-handed way of doing it "I was unable to march properly. ie poor co-ordination and was asked 'how many left feet do I have ?" These military instructors know how to put a chap down ..lol. Come inspection I was not in the 'detail' but walked round with the Admiral with a clipboard taking notes. It's caused me to be a bit clumsy too and this was noticed on one of my storm chase Tours in the US when I moved condiments on the breakfast table out of a line infront of me .One of my travelling friends asked me if I'd ever been left-handed as her brother was clumsy too and they'd made him change. She said that I was unwittingly ensuring I didn't knock anything over which I'm prone to do even now. When it happens my wife is reassuring, tells me not to get agitated and 'it's not my fault'. I have two dyslexic left-handed nephews. Some evidence suggests a link associated with left-handedness but certainly, not as some think, a lack of intelligence. One is a consultant gynaecologist and the other a civil engineer building roads abroad and lives in Berlin now with his German wife and family, He's also a brilliant artist but just has it as a hobby. One day I thought I was looking at a Turner on the wall of my sister's living room ...lol. A sail ship with a fiery red sky behind it, he'd painted it. I have another left-handed dyslexic nephew who is a professional commercial photographer in New Zealand.

Scroll down and take a look at some of the possible consequences of making kids change. https://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/being-lh/children/changing-left-to-right.html
 
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JohnC6 said:
Tell me about it :mad: You've hit a raw nerve with me. Exactly the same for me.

Several of our family members are left-handed and I was until those misguided teachers at infant school made me write right-handed . I've had problems ever since.

Here's a few of tales you might appreciate. When I was 18 I worked at Shell, Ellesmere Port. I worked in the control room and one day I saw a colleague writing with his left hand and the writing was sloping backwards. I found writing neatly awkward. Writing with a forward stroke was awkward as was writing straight up. I wondered if writing backwards-sloping would be easier. It was. All muscle strain went. Eureka ! I bought a Schaefer fountain pen at WH Smiths one day. The flow of the ink would stop intermittently. I took it back and the assistant said it was probably the flow mechanism and gave me a new one. I was soon back. She got a piece of paper and asked me to write a sentence and then said that I was writing like a left-handed person but right handed.The flow mechanism was not designed for this I was pushing the ink 'uphill'. One day my mother saw me writing 'backwards' and asked me why. I told her that it was easier. She said I shouldn't do it because writing backwards like that is ...can you believe this ?? ..a sign of a bad character. :eek: I carried on doing it..to this day.

Today,I will come out of a supermarket, if not having bought much and hold the shopping bag in my left hand. I get to the car and which pocket are my keys in ? ..the left. Down goes the bag. Everything I carry immediately goes into the left hand. I find it almost uncomfortable to hold a cup/mug in my right hand so it's always in the left. I have to pour using my left hand as I have more control over it..safer when pouring boiling water out of the kettle. I don't feel safe doing it with my right hand. I hold a knife and fork right-handed but when using only a fork..eg spagboll or a curry.. the fork is in my left hand. Of course my drink is on the left side too. Bread/toast is on a small plate left side. It gets a bit cluttered there...lol. My wife's used to it..lol. It's not set like that when we visit friends for a meal..pre-Covid..lol. Over it all goes to the left side.

In Liverpool I'd joined the RNVR at 17 and we'd go out into the Irish Sea in a minesweeper. We were taught how to tie knots. On the first occasion the instructor told me he couldn't teach me because I was doing it left-handed but CPO (Chief Petty Officer)so and so would be there next week and he'd show me as he's left-handed. When that happened the CPO said I was doing it right-handed. I was unaware. Humiliation too. An Admiral was visiting so we had to form a guard of honour and it included what's called 'present arms'. It's what you see military people do with the rifle ..one hand to the other and across the chest. An anathema to me. I was called out infront of 30 colleagues and the instructor told me to present arms. After I'd done it the rifle trigger was facing the wrong way. The instructor looked at me and said "What a cack-handed way of doing it "I was unable to march properly. ie poor co-ordination and was asked 'how many left feet do I have ?" These military instructors know how to put a chap down ..lol. Come inspection I was not in the 'detail' but walked round with the Admiral with a clipboard taking notes. It's caused me to be a bit clumsy too and this was noticed on one of my storm chase Tours in the US when I moved condiments on the breakfast table out of a line infront of me .One of my travelling friends asked me if I'd ever been left-handed as her brother was clumsy too and they'd made him change. She said that I was unwittingly ensuring I didn't knock anything over which I'm prone to do even now. When it happens my wife is reassuring, tells me not to get agitated and 'it's not my fault'. I have two dyslexic left-handed nephews. Some evidence suggests a link associated with left-handedness but certainly, not as some think, a lack of intelligence. One is a consultant gynaecologist and the other a civil engineer building roads abroad and lives in Berlin now with his German wife and family, He's also a brilliant artist but just has it as a hobby. One day I thought I was looking at a Turner on the wall of my sister's living room ...lol. A sail ship with a fiery red sky behind it, he'd painted it. I have another left-handed dyslexic nephew who is a professional commercial photographer in New Zealand.

Scroll down and take a look at some of the possible consequences of making kids change. https://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/being-lh/children/changing-left-to-right.html
Click to expand...

Some of that sounds very familiar. For decades I wore my watch on my left wrist because everybody did. It never felt comfortable though and I can't remember why I swapped but the difference was immediate, it felt so natural.
I had similar issues as a teenager in the ATC, I always got my saluting hand mixed up even though I've never had a problem telling left from right.
I shot a rifle right handed because that felt natural, possibly because my left eye is lazy (it sees better than my right but my brain ignores it).
 
Left handed writer
Right eyed (leading)
Watch on R/H
Send morse R/H using paddle
Send morse L/H using straight key
Scissors R/H

I find being left handed but right eyed means I can't draw.
Get left and right mixed up when questioned. Easier to point.
 
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