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I'm sure like many left-handers here, my right hand is nearly as dexterous as my left. Writing is the only thing I can do with left which I cannot do with right; other tasks are either equally natural or just a little awkward but still effective. But some right-handers who have been forced to (by breaking an arm for example) can learn to write with the left hand. I have to assume they could learn to be more ambidexte…
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Left-handed screwdrivers are not real, but left-handed scissors are real. Left-handed watches are also real, the crown is on the left side: https://www.fratellowatches.com/help-my-son-is-a-lefty-a-loo...
Wait do people wear their watch on their dominant hand? I can’t do that, need to use that hand to manipulate the watch. Maybe because it’s a smartwatch.
I'm sure like many left-handers here, my right hand is nearly as dexterous as my left. Writing is the only thing I can do with left which I cannot do with right; other tasks are either equally natural or just a little awkward but still effective. But some right-handers who have been forced to (by breaking an arm for example) can learn to write with the left hand. I have to assume they could learn to be more ambidexte…
I write left handed, and use a fork in my left and knife in my right. Left hand for holding a phone or a drinking glass, and for shaving. I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed. I'm not at all ambidextrous, I can't do most of those things with my other hand.
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I guess it's possible to be non dominant in either hand. I write left and eat with a fork or spoon in the left, but I bat, bowl, or throw with the right. In the boxing gym, I'm not a southpaw. But I play lefty guitar.
Same here. Left hand is precision, right hand is power.
Curious - was your mom a lefty ? (mine was)
Just throwing in my left handed anecdote here: the bottom of my hand was always covered in pencil graphite when I was in school because your hand drags over what you've been writing from left -> right. Also ring binders were a pain in the ass (your hand is blocked at the left margin lol)
I'm predominantly left-handed, except on the computer. Where I use the mouse with my right hand and play FPS games using the mouse on my right hand, as well. Not sure how common this is.
I'm guessing your school or home computer had it on the right growing up? I got used to using it on the right because I didn't want to move the mouse to the left in the school computer labs as it was always a clutter of cords. At home half my family was left handed and mainly the PC was used by the lefties so I got used to playing FPSs with the left hand. I kinda hate playing on PC now because WASD is trash left hand…
Before using WASD, I used WER and Space key for movement. Q=Jump, W=Forward, E=Strafe Left, R=Strafe Right. This allowed me to easily reach the number row and remap T=Chat 123456ASDFG for switching weapons and game controls. I switched to WASD with World of Warcraft, and use that for everything now mostly out of laziness and inertia (tired of rebinding everything, as you do).
I tried to use the mouse w/ my left hand and couldn't. Too much of the controls are right-hand centric. Keyboard shortcuts for browsing are all on the left side, etc. It does feel nicer to have it on the left hand sometimes.
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I thought that scissors were made to be right handed, and you need a 'reversed' pair for left handed people. Or is that a scam?
Left-handed screwdrivers are not real, but left-handed scissors are real. Left-handed watches are also real, the crown is on the left side: https://www.fratellowatches.com/help-my-son-is-a-lefty-a-loo...
I'm sure like many left-handers here, my right hand is nearly as dexterous as my left. Writing is the only thing I can do with left which I cannot do with right; other tasks are either equally natural or just a little awkward but still effective. But some right-handers who have been forced to (by breaking an arm for example) can learn to write with the left hand. I have to assume they could learn to be more ambidexte…
I am a lefty for small motor skills (like writing and eating) and a righty for large motor skills (like throwing a ball or swinging a bat)
Could it just be that for centuries leading up to now left handedness was considered "bad" to "very bad" (still many languages have the connotation) and before that we have no real data about how common it was?
From the article, "when you compare the number of left- and right-handed Neanderthals, this same ratio of 1 in 10 left-handers that we see today pops out"