Left Handed or Right Handed

[zbugger]

I'm right handed, but I can do many things with my left. Stranger included. But that's not the point here, now is it?

[jeffandre]

I used to be all lefty until I became a powerlifting bodybuilder in my 20's (nowhere close to that power/strength now). My right hand caught up over the years, and coupled with the fact that I was also a fitter and a carpenter during those years my right hand got to within 90% of my left hand's capabilities. I can now right with my right hand if I have to, but rarely do.

While most of my life has shown me time and again how the righty's have the advantages, I have found some for us lefty's as well.
1) Driving - I am able to shift with my right, while my more precise/strong hand stays on the steering wheel, which of course is the more important function.
2) Bowling - I studied the 'science' of bowling in my early-20's and learned that in the later stages of a competition, the lefty's have a distinct advantage in that our side of the lane is far less used, therefore it has a more consistent oil layer, resulting in more consistent ability to control the precision required for scoring.
3) Golf - I have also noticed that many holes are set up to punish the more common right-handed golfer. When timing is off, a righty will either hit it short and right, or long and left. A lot of trouble has been designed into holes to take advantage of this. Not all holes resemble this, but I have had poor timing at times and my bad shots find more rough than sand, as opposed to my right-handed friends. Next time you golf, check the placement of hazards around the green, it may surprise you.
4) Probably many others that I missed...

I won't go into the disadvantages, they are too numerous to list here. But we all learn to cope, and at my age everything has evened out. I will say that learing to use my right hand more has increased my overall effectiveness at whatever I choose to do.

[Rick@Rick's Hot Rod Shop]

Left hand dominant but can get by with using my right.

[Jagarang]

I'm left hand retatarded at everything... and if I sit on it!

[TonyL]

Im right handed and left eye dominant also. I learend to fire expert on the M16 and 9mm using 2 open eyes. lol.

[F70t/a]

I'm right handed, but I can also write with my left and do everything like my right. it helps when doing a lot of paper work

[CAMAROBOY69]

I am right handed but I can do quite a bit with my left hand too especially on cars. When you grow up never asking for help on cars you learn to use both hands for everything. Sometimes I have 3 or 4 hands but they arent on the list.

[larknut]

Right handed here... but I can hold a beverage and brush my teeth with my left hand. Would that be considered ambidextrous?

[Joey_H]

Left handed, I do everything left-handed except manipulate a computer mouse. I tell you it looks strange to me to see people using their right hand to do things like write, open doors, throw things, use tools. Freaky! It took my dad years to teach me how to loosen and tighten nuts and bolts, I would always go the wrong way. I still have to think about it sometimes. Haha!

[GetMore]

Naturally left handed, but I was forced to use my right hand in kindergarten, so now I have learned to do most things right handed.
I can use either hand for most things now.

[steemin]

I am glad I am right handed.
I bet it is a bitch finding left handed tools.
Scott

[AAW]

Im right handed and left eye dominant also. I learend to fire expert on the M16 and 9mm using 2 open eyes. lol.

Right handed but my left eye is Brown, right eye is Green... I'm a mess. :rolleyes5

[ashleyand1]

Im ambidextrous I can write both right and left handed. I can also do basically everything right and left. My dominant hand is my right though.

[Little Bob]

I'm left handed. Now cross referance jobs and hobbies with this info. I would be curious what the outcome is.

[steemin]

I'm left handed. Now cross referance jobs and hobbies with this info. I would be curious what the outcome is.

My guess would be that there would be a disproportionate (sp)
amount of lefties that are in "creative" type careers and hobbies.
Left handed/right side of brain and vice versa. The right side of our brains being the more creative side if you will.
I saw in an earlier post on this thread that Kris Horton is a lefty.
That would have been my guess.
On the other hand us right handers are much more rational and logical in our thinking
Scott
p.s. Damn some of those college pysch classes did pay off after all

[jeffandre]

I remember playing baseball right-handed the first year (6 years old), with the coach telling my mom that something was wrong with how I caught and threw. He finally told her that I might be left-handed, and sure enough, my abilities quickly grew. We laughed about that for years!

[airrj1]

My guess would be that there would be a disproportionate (sp)
amount of lefties that are in "creative" type careers and hobbies.
Left handed/right side of brain and vice versa. The right side of our brains being the more creative side if you will.
I saw in an earlier post on this thread that Kris Horton is a lefty.
That would have been my guess.
On the other hand us right handers are much more rational and logical in our thinking

Actually what I have found here at my work is the opposite. Of the lefties that we have found most of them are in Engineering. Only one is in design. And our group here where I work it is split between Engineering and Design/Marketing folks. Out of about 35 Engineers we have 7 lefties and out of 30 Designers we had 1. Very informal, but interesting.

And being semi-ambidextrous is very handy. I basically can do anything with my non-dominant about 90% as well as I can with the dominant hand. And with a little pratice I can use either hand equally.

[Little Bob]

I remember playing baseball right-handed the first year (6 years old), with the coach telling my mom that something was wrong with how I caught and threw. He finally told her that I might be left-handed, and sure enough, my abilities quickly grew. We laughed about that for years!

I had a similar problem when I was in Elementry School. Back then the teachers used to make you use your right hand. So I had alot of trouble in school until my parents found out what was going on. The only reason I found out about this was, My son is a lefty also and the teachers had no idea. I went and spent the day with him in class and saw for my self why he had trouble cutting and writing and other simple skills. The teachers never even thought to try the left handed approach. How many left handed people have children that are left handed?

[steemin]

see next post

[steemin]

And being semi-ambidextrous is very handy. I basically can do anything with my non-dominant about 90% as well as I can with the dominant hand. And with a little pratice I can use either hand equally.

Oh boy I am going to have to use some serious restraint here.
This thread could get ugly
Scott