Just curious, Are you lefty or righty...
 

As inspired by a thread from CP on shoelaces...


Are you a lefty or a righty? Enter and sign in please..

Oh...wait. Are we talking politics or what hand we write with?

Can I get an ambidexterous option?

I can use a mouse ambidextrously. In everything else I am extremely left handed (I find it difficult to eat with a fork right-handed).

Righty tighty, lefty loose-y.
:D

I'm a righty tighty

right as rain

This may be a bit of a surprise to Scaeagles, but I'm a righty.

I like the "I don't know" option! How could you not know???

I tried to train myself to be ambidexterous when in the 6th grade, but I gave up after about a year. Though I still can use my left for quite a bit now. Just not righting, my right hand is sloppy enough with out my left giving it a try....:rolleyes:

My wife is pseudo-ambidextrous. When she was in high school, her dad broke his neck and wasn't able to use hjis right arm for wuite a while. As a show of support, she started doing everything left handed as well. She still does with a few things, like eating.

Shoelaces: Left over right and under, then Right over left and under.

Hands - Righty. Mother was leftie and nuns slapping knuckles with rulers made her ambidexterous. She could write two copperplate letters to people at the same time with two pens. :eek:

Seesch, is everything politics with you?

Besides I think we all know the results of the political lefty-righty poll already.


That's just a subtle dig at ambidextrous crowd. Most people with ambidextrous skills are still left or right handed but have worked to train their non-dominant hand (LashMom for example). Even people who are born ambidextrous (and that's extremely rare) still favor one hand over the other.


Funny story about Left vs right...
As a college freshman I took Psych-101. One of the exciting parts of that class was the opportunity of being forced to volunteer for a grad student experiment. I was late to sign-up so all the fun electroshock experiments were full but there was one "study" looking for a few lefties so I went with that. It turned out they were looking to figure out how many lefties had been forcefully subjugated by the evil righty education/religion cabal. The looked at hundreds of righties and just a few lefties (as a control of sorts) to determine their natural handedness. After I finished all the tests they were frankly shocked. According to their data I was rather unique and it had them all a twitter. I was a lefty who was in fact a natural righty. A rare thing to be sure... and in this case not even close to being true.

The first test they had was a strength test: Squeeze the gauge and see how much force you generate with your left vs right hand. The problem for me was that I had just come from fencing practice (if you are tall and a lefty, you should really should try fencing!) so my left hand was pretty much jelly. In the test my right easily won the day.

Next up was a dexterity test. How many times in 60 Seconds can you press a button with your left hand VS your right hand. Are there any old school video game players out there? I was the Asteroids champ for my college (top score over 5 Million). For those not familiar with the game, your left hand controls the Left and right buttons while the right controls the thrust and fire button. You press the "fire" button a lot in that game and the faster the better. I was a finely tuned asteroids playing machine. I could group fire lines tighter than scrooges purse strings. So in this test my right once again took home the prize.

I had quite a time convincing them I really was not the missing-link of lefty vs righties.

I thought he was talking the angle of the dangle.

That could work, however if you are going to claim "Ambidexterity" on that one we're gonna need some photographic evidence.

My Bearded Dragons can claim that ambidexterity.

I'm mostly a lefty except I throw (and bat and golf) right handed. As a result I have more strength in my right hand so I tend to rely on my right hand for anything that needs strength. But when it comes to dexterity, what little of it I have is in my left hand.

Though I'm trying to train myself to shoot pool (left handed, currently) ambidextrously.

Are you hitting the sauce again, Leo?


I'm VERY right handed.

Very LEFT here.

Except similar to GD, I throw, bowl, and mouse right handed.

I mouse right handed 'cause that's how I was taught. I bowl left handed, though.

mouse? (sorry, never heard of it a a verb before)

on the mouse same here... bowling... i think I was taught right handed.

Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that I bowl left handed. But I guess that by the time I was taught to bowl, my parents realized I was left handed, whereas I was probably taught to throw much younger so I was taught right handed. Meanwhile, I play soccer left-footed, probably because no one had to teach me how to kick.

I favor my right, usually - I never considered myself ambidextrous, simply because I haven't exactly tried, but for some reason, I have almost always eaten left handed, I skate and snowboard with the left and I tend to favor it. I've never, ever, ever tried to write with it, and I imagine I'd be pretty horrible at it.

total right hander here.

Per Merriam-Webster:
However.. per word net
My derail is over now.

Like approximately 89% of the global population, I am indeed right-handed.

(And, I tried so hard to be a non-conformist, dammit!)

I can think of only one thing I do left handed.

President Garfield was ambidextrous. He could write a text in Latin with one hand while simultaneously writing the same text in Greek with the other.

Well, in this highly unscientific sampling, the LoT community is running at a slightly higher percentage of lefties than most estimates of general lefty population (which usually run between 8-15%).

Hold the magazine (or remote)?

That is surprising considering we are such a balanced scientific sample :D

You've got it backwards.

Right-handed. But I use a mouse left-handed most of the time. It seems like such a waste of time to have to move your hand back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard. And the switched mouse settings annoy people who try to use my PC.:evil:

So you swap the mouse buttons when you have it on the left side?

What baffles Lani is that I can move the mouse to either side, not change the button settings and use it just as proficiently.

right handed but I can write with both. I favor my left leg when skating and walking and I have to walk on the left side of nearly everyone. Text with my right and can only mouse with my right.

Oh and I can check with my left hip like no other.

Whjy do you asjk>?

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, does this mean that only left-handed people are in their right minds?

I generally prefer the left side of my booty.

Lefty.

Well I write with my right but I do most everything else with my left.