Left or right handed

[Kaleva]

I write left handed.

I shave right handed.

I brush my teeth using my left hand.

I comb my hair left handed.

I shoot right handed.

I throw right handed.

I'm right handed when picking up and using hand and power tools.

At the dining table, I use the fork, spoon and butter knife with the left and the steak knife with the right.

I drink with the right and pour with the right.

When kicking off my shoes, the right shoe will go to the left and the left shoe will be on the right.

I roll up extension cords and hoses counter-clockwise.

House keys and car keys can go in either front pocket.

My wallet goes into my left back pocket.

[LakeArenal]

1. My husband is much the same.

But my mother-in-law is ambidextrous
Very cool.

[True Dough]

2. And how do you, you know...

arrive at a point of pleasure? Are you ambidextrous?

[Kaleva]

6. Right handed.

[True Dough]

7. So greater musculature in your right forearm?

Noticeably larger? Like so...

[underpants]

3. Right right counterclockwise watch on left wallet in back right pocket

As it is supposed to be

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. I'd give my left arm to be

ambidextrous!

[Kaleva]

5. Lol!

[mr_lebowski]

8. I'm right handed/legged in every possible way

Possible exception is that I was trained in eating food that need cutting ... apparently the 'proper' way is that the fork goes in the left hand, tines down, you cut w/your right, then transfer fork to right hand, and eat the bite, with tines facing upwards.

I've definitely seen lots of other righties that do the opposite, fork in the right, cut with left ... which makes me think that if I'd not been trained the way I was, I'd maybe do that as well.

You sound very ambidextrous ... I've always envied that in truth

[tblue37]

9. My left hand is so *stupid* that I can't do much of anything with it. nt

[Arger68]

10. About half left and half right handed

Write left handed (except when I was a kid in school I wrote right handed on the chalkboard)
Eat left handed (use knife in left hand and fork in right hand)
Use tools like saws left handed, but I can hammer with either
Roll extension cords clockwise. Bread ties too

Throw right handed
Bat right handed (though I can somewhat bat left handed. If i was athletic at all i could have been a switch hitter)

[LisaM]

11. Left-handed. On the rare occasion I shoot darts (once every ten years?), I'm ambidextrous.

I think that has more to do with the astigmatism in my right eye than anything else.

[yesphan]

12. I eat left

handed and write left handed. Throw and bat right handed. I play drums, guitar and flute right handed but play the violin left handed. Wear my watch on my right wrist. Wallet ,left pocket. Brush my teeth with both hands (alternating, not at the same time).

[Kaleva]

15. I eat apples left hand but bananas right hand

That might be because I peel the banana with the left while holding it with my right.

[yesphan]

28. Funny

how that works.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Hardly anyone is one hundred percent left or right handed.

Unless they only have one hand.

Handedness generally refers to the hand you write with. People who can write with both are considered ambidextrous. I write and do many thingswith my right hand but do various other things left handed.

Some years ago I was playing miniature golf and the friend with me said, "Poindexter, I had no idea you were left handed!" I said, "Huh? What are you talking about." Apparently there is a right and left handed way to play that game. Honestly, since it's all putting, I'm equally good (or bad if you've ever seen my play) either way. Same with batting a baseball. I am exactly as good or bad either way. For both of those skills, I cannot fathom where one way is considered right handed, the other way left handed.

[Kaleva]

14. But one usually uses the hand they write with for most things.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. A majority of people probably do, but it's really not an either or.

Many years ago, as in sometime in the '70s, I read a book about handedness. It covered a lot of aspects, such as culture that treat left handed people terribly. It also went into detail about how handedness is connected to brain wiring. For regular right handed people, the left side of the brain is controlling the right side of the body. For most left handed people, the right side of the brain is controlling the left side of their body. For for a substantial minority of lefties, the left side of the brain is controlling the left side of their body. Those are the ones who hook when they right.

At the very end of the book the author explained how she got so fascinated by this topic. When she got married, she noticed that her husband, a rightie, hooked when he wrote. There's a tiny, tiny percentage of right handed people for whom the right side of the brain is running the show.

My older son is right handed. He hooks when he writes. He's also mildly autusitic (Asperger's) and one of the very smartest people I have ever known. What's perhaps more interesting is that he showed a strong preference for using his right hand at a very early age, well before the age of one. According to the child development books I read at the time, most kids don't show all that much preference all that early. Even though the right hand left hand preference is wired.

[Aristus]

16. Everything right-handed.

Except this smilie, evidently.

[loyalsister]

17. Mixed dominance

I write, eat, and shoot pool left handed. For tasks that require more arm muscle effort and less eye - hand coordination I use my right. Sometimes I actually get confused about which will work best.

Over the last 50 years, Jimmy Carter is the only right handed president who was not blatantly corrupt. Nixon, W, and Trump are the only other right handed presidents.

It's amazing how many presidents came from such a small population.

[Brother Buzz]

18. He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. - Yogi Berra

[3catwoman3]

20. Right-handed but somewhat left-footed.

I usually start walking by putting my left foot forward first.

When I was a kid and did cartwheels, I could only do them going to the left. I couldn't even try them going to the right because even thinking about that felt as if I would fall over backwards. Can't even imagine it.

If I try to write with my left hand, it feels natural to go backwards, and it is actually somewhat legible.

[mulsh]

21. Mostly left handed but i play stringed instuments, guitar, mandolin, right handed.

n/t

[ProudLib72]

22. I write left handed

I eat left handed. Interesting thing about that. I was in my thirties before I understood why people would cut their food, set down their utensils, switch hands, and start eating. Ya'll a bunch of dummies!

I can throw, use power tools, hammer, lay block, bat, etc with either hand. My right is dominant, but sometimes I like to just spice things up a bit. Comes in handy when I'm building something and it would be easier to hammer or use a power tool with my left.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. Basically same as you, Kaleva but with exceptions.

I'm left-handed and the overall pattern is....

* Writing, drawing and any other precision things I do left-handed.

* I'm prone to do things requiring strength rather than precision with my right hand such as torquing bolts and pipe fittings, and usually lift things with a handle with the right hand and arm.

* I'm prone to steer a vehicle with my right hand which would seem to violate the above rules.

KY........ (see my left-handed wave, LOL).

[Harker]

24. I shoot pool and sweep

with a broom left handed.

Nowadays it's plenty of sweeping and no pool.

[BlueSpot]

25. Both

The things I do instinctively (eating, writing), I do left handed. The things I learned to do by observation (throwing, spreading peanut butter on bread), I do right handed because that's what I saw and modeled.

What I always hated was when there was a rare appearance of some left handed object like a desk or scissors, I was expected to be able to use it and be happy about it. I can't use left-handed scissors to save my life. They were not usually available so I never learned to use them. Possibly an opportunity lost, but I'll never know. I always knocked over the odd left handed desk I was given because experience taught me to use right-handed desks and exit to the left.

I coil hoses clockwise (observed behavior). Keys go in the right pocket - it's the hand it comes out of the ignition in. I am less violent with my shoes. They don't fling off in either direction.

[Thekaspervote]

26. We lefties living in a right handed world naturally do more things with our non dominant hand

[Laffy Kat]

27. You are in a minority to be envied.

In my experience, left-handers are way cooler than us "righties" and more spatially adept. I went on a mission to figure out why I'm so spatially impaired and it seems to have something to do with extreme right- versus left-brain dominance. I must be missing a fuse or two up there. Anyway, the study below doesn't prove anything conclusively, but you'll see you're in great company!

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-left-handed-people-are-better-at-math?limitstart=1

[akraven]

29. Spouse is solid left-handed, me solid right.

We take care sitting in restaurant booths!

Our exceptions are handling the rescue kitties; anything goes!

[PETRUS]

30. My mom (born 1930) thought she was a natural lefty.

Her inclination was to write left-handed, but her school insisted she do otherwise. I understand that wasn't too uncommon in those days. Around the house, she did a lot of things left handed, and sometimes wrote with her left hand without realizing she was doing it.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

31. Was right handed. Now have to learn to be left handed

[Iggo]

32. The only thing I do equally well with either hand is...

...throw darts.

Ha-ha.

You thought.