Are more DUers left handed or right handed??

[amandae]

Just curious! The wrist watch poll got me thinking ....

(BTW ... I'm only talking about using your hand for things like writing, catching a ball, cutting with scissors and such ... ;-) )

[amandae]

1. To answer my own poll ...

I'm a southpaw ...

:hi:

[onebigbadwulf]

2. south

[short bus president]

3. more DUers are right-handed. n/t

[htuttle]

4. Reformed Lefty

Forced to switch in the first grade. Public school too, but no slapping that I can remember. They used to make me sit on my left hand to keep from using it.

Now I'm kind of ambidextrous: I write equally poorly with either hand.

[pmbryant]

5. Lefty (mostly)

Athletically, though, I am right-handed. Except tennis, where I am no-handed. ;-)

For just about everything else, though, I am a lefty.

--Peter

[meegbear]

6. My right hand is the dominant one ...

but when Windows cam out in the early 90's, it made sense to me to use my left hand for the mouse, and I didn't switch the left/right functionality, freeing my right hand for writing, etc.

On my personal machines, I have the mouse on the left, but I can use either hand.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Right-handed for everything except the mouse

I just feel wrong using it at the right side of the keyboard. People see me at a computer and assume I'm left-handed, but I'm actually right-handed.

My 2yo is left-handed. I think it's cool.

Edit: typo

[amandae]

8. Go 2 year old!

My mom is a lefty and so am I ... I have three kids and I think the last one, my son, is FINALLY a lefty! Kind of early to tell (he's a year and a half) but he already colors and uses his fork and spoon with his left hand, so I'm hopeful!

:hi:

[Drifter]

9. Lefty except ...

Using scissors (Mom got lefties for me but I learned RH)
Shooting Pool (Learned from watching others)
Shooting a rifle (I don't, but if I did)
Playing Guitar (Learned from watching others)

I am also a Juggler. I work very hard at making my right (non-dominant) hand as good a thrower as my left (dominant) hand.

Cheers
Drifter

[underpants]

10. Yes

:hi:

[HereSince1628]

11. Like most lefties also a righty under societal pressure

scissors--dextral
Table settings--dextral
Guitar/Banjo-dextral (I found a lefthanded Banjo;it made me nuts)
Gear shifter-dextral
chain saw--dextral
Winding fishing reel--dextral
computer mouse--dextral
Drafting machine (I know...old technology)--dextral (which puts the pen or pencil in the right hand)

power and handsaw --ambidextrous
TV-remote--ambidextrous
writing on blackboard--ambidextrous (I think due to grade school)

hammer--sinistral
baseball bat/axe--sinistral
writing/drawing on paper--sinistral
painting (as in house and watercolors)--sinistral
kitchen utensils--sinistral
combs and hair brush--sinistral
toothbrush--sinistal
toilet paper--sinistral
politics--sinistral

[UrbScotty]

12. Right-handed, left-winged. (nt)

[supernova]

13. One step away from ambidexterous

I'm not quite able to use both hands equally. I really have to concentrate to write left-handed, for example. But I do use and lead with the left hand enough to know that if I should lose my right hand, I could adapt with the left fairly easily.