Cate Perfect Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 To honour Liver's request for more demographics I give you the dominant hand poll. Cate Link to post Share on other sites
junie99 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I am left-handed. Link to post Share on other sites
Live R Perfect Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 lol Thanks Cate I'm a complete right-y myself :) Link to post Share on other sites
Cate Perfect Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 Oh, me, too. Dur. Cate Link to post Share on other sites
McPhail Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 ...I am your run-of the mill rightie... While we are on the subject :D Being left-handed is cool: http://www.amiannoying.com/(31lbzg45spgbsg...bCategoryID=109 ...'Am I Annoying' site lists being a leftie as a non-annoying quality WOOT! :D... Link to post Share on other sites
whisper in a crowd Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 gone Link to post Share on other sites
CC Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Ambidextrous, but I write most with my right hand, cut stuff with my left. Writing with my left hand makes my handwriting look like I'm back in kindergarten, just learning how to write... Link to post Share on other sites
borrowedTime Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I write with my right. But actually, I very rarely actually write anything. I broke my right wrist & thumb earlier in the year, and found the number of times I had to (and was therefore unable to) write anything were surprisingly low. One or two signatures, a few notes in meetings and so forth. Far more of a problem was tying shoelaces (absolute nightmare), doing up buttons (real struggle), and eating anything that required holding with the fork and cutting with the knife at the same time (so I ate a lot of pasta...). Link to post Share on other sites
Kez Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Right handed. Left legged. Wanna know how to tell the 'leggedness'? Stnad up straight... get someone you trust to push you... the leg you step forward with ( best out of 5) is your dominant leg. You can do this with cats as well. Get a long tube, stick a treat inside, and see what arm the cat puts in to get the treat out. My cat is right armed. Link to post Share on other sites
Cate Perfect Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 Funfact: Most cats are left-armed. Cate Link to post Share on other sites
Kez Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Really? Huh. *stares at the cat* And he likes playing in water. He tips the buckets of water we've been saving in the shower over. Silly cat. Link to post Share on other sites
Kombucha2000 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 right-handed, I'd like to be ambidextrous. Link to post Share on other sites
yam Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Ambidextrous, left-favoring Write with my left, can write with my right when left gets tired (or on a blackboard) Cuts with scissors right handed Eats with fork in left hand unless reading then with right Switch-hitter/catcher Tennis both handed Left hand controls accuracy, right hands is better with heavier tasks Link to post Share on other sites
Tanasha Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 ambidextrous but prefer the right. I prettymuch write with my right hand. (Enough homophones there? :lol: ) If I try to with the other, it looks like a 4 year old's. Well, a 4 yr old writing in cursive. I can even do mirror-writing in cursive, right and left, but it's hardly readable. I'm Dyslexic and I wonder if that has anything to do with being ambidextrous. Link to post Share on other sites
Shockwave Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Ambidextrous but favor the right. The only thing I can't do just as well with my left hand is write (it's not trained to do that). I can fingerspell two words at the same time, one with my right hand, one with my left. Link to post Share on other sites
Vicious Trollop Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Proud lefty, but right-eyed. <--- hahaha, look at me favoring that right eye! Link to post Share on other sites
mizkitty2107 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Another righty! Our family played opposites - I'm right handed and so is my son. My husband is left handed like my daughter. I wonder what causes the right hand predominance anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
leejoon Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I was actually trained against being left-handed... I know, archaic, but my mum was determined to make me a righty! (she was nice about it) So now I switch back and forth fairly easily with writing, eating... I only doodle with my right hand though. Odd? Link to post Share on other sites
junie99 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I found a page about left handed writers. :arrow: http://www.nibs.com/Left-hand%20writers.htm Link to post Share on other sites
Nugan Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Left-Handed. I love the list of important lefties. :) Uh, left pride anyone? :lol: Link to post Share on other sites
Aeireono Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Right handed... boring, aren't I? My left hand's semi-useless - well, it's okay, but I seem to lean very strongly towards the right one. You should see what I wind up with in those "draw with your non-dominant hand" game things... hee, we should try that someday... Link to post Share on other sites
Chameleonthing Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Proud lefty, but right-eyed. Crazy... I'm right-handed and LEFT-eyed. :mrgreen: ...well, mostly right-handed, the way Aeireono is.. Link to post Share on other sites
Islander9 Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I'm righthanded (and that hand is noticeably larger than my left - comes from hammering, sawing etc.), rightlegged, and left-eye dominant. Kia ora - Islander9 Link to post Share on other sites
KAGU143 Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Ordinary, boring rightie. The computer is set up left handed though (mouse on the left) because my hubby is a leftie and it was his before I usurped it. So ... when I'm online for any length of time my entire left arm goes numb. :roll: I tried to switch the mouse to the other side and I was so incompetent it was funny. Drawing from the right side of the brain ... yeah, I remember that test. It was weird! I think one of my alter-egos must live in there ... -Greybird Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyCanuck Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Right-handed all the way. But when I get bored at work, I try to teach myself to write left-handed. That is, when I get really, REALLY bored. :roll: Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Wood Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Right handed, c'est moi. Tenez le droit. But you'd think it was my left leg that was doing the writing, if you ever saw it - it's scandalously scruffy, that's why I developed a massive affinity with keyboards donkeys' years ago. Mind, I've found there are some things I don't do well with my right hand. Using a calculator I prefer my left hand, it's more accurate. And I once had to drive a car with left-hand drive, which meant changing the gearshift with my right hand. It was amazingly awkward. 'Course it didn't worry me..I was very drunk. Odd thing about left/right. I trained to be a driving instructor, and it came to light that it's suprising that, directionally, there are people who have difficulty telling their left from their right. Link to post Share on other sites
Silly Green Monkey Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I sometimes forget which is the right or left. It comes back after I think about it though. Link to post Share on other sites
sazandra Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Right handed for writing and a few other things but left handed when it comes to using a computer. It does confuses some people at work but is quite useful as I can use a mouse to surf the net or whatever and make handwritten notes at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites
IT Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I had to vote 'ambi but favour my right'. I write with my right hand. I throw balls and bat (in cricket) with my right hand. I for some reason play snooker and pool left-handed. Not quite sure why but I remember picking up a snooker cue for the first time when I was about six years old and playing left-handed felt easily the most natural. As usual on Friday I was in the pub holding my beer glass with my left hand. I usually play football(soccer to you americans) with both feet and have scored quite a few goals with my left foot. Just a little insight into my bizarrely-balanced brain hemispheres. :) Link to post Share on other sites
quietbraggadocio Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I'm right handed for writing, drawing, dialing and so forth, but anything that involves the wrist or arm I can use either. Bo staff, polearm, sword, tennis racket, broom. Any fine manuplation I'm a righty, I even catch and throw better both with right, in baseball the glove only came in handy for pop flys. Link to post Share on other sites
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