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€uroMeinke 08-23-2010 08:41 PM

What's your smart-phone hand?
 
Today as I was distracting myself from work and checking my iphone for the usual social media aps I noticed that I seem to use my left hand and thumb a lot when using my phone despite being right-handed. I suspect it's because I'm use to having my right hand free to take notes when I'm on the phone, but it makes me wonder if other people are smart-phone ambidextrous.

BarTopDancer 08-23-2010 08:44 PM

I am strongly right handed and a faster texter with my right hand but I can navigate my phone with both I can also write with my left though I wouldn't say I'm ambidextrous.

Stan4dSteph 08-23-2010 08:51 PM

I'm right handed, but I tend to use my left a lot for scrolling etc. It just seems to work better for some reason.

Ghoulish Delight 08-23-2010 08:53 PM

If I'm operating it one handed, it's with my fight (I'm a lefty). If I'm using 2 hands, I hold it in my right and use my left for touch-screening. I think the right handed thing mostly comes from the fact that the button that wakes the phone up from sleep mode is most easily pressed with my right.

alphabassettgrrl 08-23-2010 09:08 PM

Depends on what I'm doing. Texting: I like to use both hands. Dialing: can go either way. Searching my address book: usually left. Answering: usually right. I think.

I don't have a strong preference; depends on what I'm doing with the phone, and what else I'm doing.

Cadaverous Pallor 08-23-2010 09:10 PM

I'm a righty and I heavily rely on my right hand on the phone, but I'm also a very slow phone user. I have a feeling that if I used the phone more and got faster I'd be more ambidextrous at it.

Alex 08-23-2010 09:36 PM

I'm strongly left handed (I can't even use a fork with my right hand) but when it comes to computer peripherals I'm fully ambidextrous, amazing friends and enemies alike with my ability to use a computer mouse from either side of the keyboard.

I've never noticed any particular handedness when using my phone for things other than a phone call but when I am using it for a call the phone is almost always to my left ear (meaning I couldn't write). But my headset for my phone at work is set up for right ear use.

Ghoulish Delight 08-23-2010 10:28 PM

Good point, I also use my left hand for actual calls almost exclusively.

Kevy Baby 08-24-2010 03:48 PM

Mostly right hand and almost exclusively left ear - especially with blue tooth.

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 332305)
...but when it comes to computer peripherals I'm fully ambidextrous, amazing friends and enemies alike with my ability to use a computer mouse from either side of the keyboard.

I had a professor in college who could write with both hands. Simultaneously. Different things.

His name was (and presumably still is) Arthur Charles Walter Bethel. On the blackboard, we would write "Arthur Charles" with his left hand and "Walter Bethel" with his right (at the same time). When complete, the two names would line up and were mostly similar in looks (though you could see some differences).

He was a quirky guy, but I liked him.

Gemini Cricket 08-24-2010 03:51 PM

I'm right handed and use my right hand to do things on my iPhone.

On a similar note, I can't text using two hands. I don't know how people do it.


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