Just curious, Are you lefty or righty...

[Moonliner]

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


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

[scaeagles]

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

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

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

Seesch, is everything politics with you?

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

Originally Posted by RStar

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

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.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

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

I thought he was talking the angle of the dangle.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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

My Bearded Dragons can claim that ambidexterity.

[cirquelover]

Can I get an ambidexterous option?

[Alex]

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).

[Gemini Cricket]

Righty tighty, lefty loose-y.

[katiesue]

I'm a righty tighty