Are you Left or Right Handed?

[glenn k]

Rocker its not only British / Australian using knife and fork like us its the rest of europe aswell. Maybe every where else in the world that they use knife and forks except the yanks. But they like to be different, make up their own gallon, will not go metric so the world flys in feet.

[GC]

My children are both ambidexterous (spelling).
One writes Left the other Right handed and the opposite for kicking a footy and opposite again for swinging a bat and so on.
The only thing they both do the same is cutlery.

go figure!

GC

[jackiew]

I'm right handed but taught myself to write left handed when I was a kid - reason why escapes me now but it comes in useful when I'm on the phone as I have a long neck and therefore can't seem to wedge the phone between my shoulder and ear like other people can.

I must be left footed though .. as I found out the hard way when we learned how to hurdle at school. Ditto with high jumping - spectacular crashes when I approached from the "right hand" side and the occasional success when I approached from the "left hand" side.

I agree that other handedness improves with practise. I play lacrosse and we have to practise throwing with our stick in our "other" hand in training ( theoretically this means we can swap hands in the game but in my case it doesn't seem to have "taken" yet). You do get better although it is always ( in my case anyway ) a relief to swap the stick back into my major hand.

Piano playing I have two left hands My teacher could be heard shouting at me "the other left hand".

[woodymarts]

I am defanaly right handed and proud of it.
woodymarts

[LineLefty]

Needless to say I'm a lefty.

I've searched for a left handed Circular Saw with no luck.

There are some that are more friendly (i.e position of dust thrower, trigger lock etc). In the end you just have to use it RH.

Being a lefty is an advantage when playing sport though. In my brief but dim volleyball career It wasa great help being a lefty. The blockers always leave the line for you to hit...hence Linelefty!

[Iain]

And I found a bloke in Melb who sells only left handed guitars!

[GregLee]

I'm totally confused by this discussion. I always thought I was right handed. However, when playing football I'm predominately left footed. I bat left or right handed at Cricket. I play golf right handed now. Though I can quite happily play full iron shots and drive left handed.

I can even use screw drivers left handed once I've thought about the thread direction.

What does this mean? My left handed writing is crap though. I suppose I need some practise.

[Bob Willson]

I'm completely ambivalent.

[forunna]

Its right for me. although I have made myself go left on some things, tabe tennis, totem tennis(both mentioned before), and at work I use my mouse left handed becasue I use the number pad a lot and got sick of swapping all the time. took about two weeks to get used to it.

[vsquizz]

Play pool (snooker, billiards) left or right handed, doesn't seem to matter. Used to use a rifle left or right until started using automatics which pelt your right arm up with hot shells when shooting lefty (military service).

If I have to put one hand in front of the other (shovel) its normally left handed except for fishing reels and cricket.

The kids are still out the back looking for a left handed screwdriver....

[DanP]

Squizz,

When you say fishing reels, do you wind with your left or right hand?

Dan

[Kris.Parker1]

Ambidextrous for me. It annoys the hell out of the guys who have to bowl the cricket balls at me. I change from left to right to left again all in the one over.

[Kris.Parker1]

On the topic of weird and wonderful tools, included is the left handed hammer, left handed wheel nut remover etc...

Hows about a can of camouflage paint, checkered paint, rainbow paint etc.

What about the guy who collects all the donut holes?

[Douglas Fir]

As my brother use to taunt me...

We are all born right handed , the intelligent ones over come it.

D

[Jon]

I am very right handed, but
I eat with my fork in my right because I learnt sitting opposite my father. I believe this makes more sense because that is the hand that has the most control and that is the hand that is taking the fork near my mouth.
I can ten pin bowel equally well (or poorly) with either hand.
I skateboard/water ski right foot forward which makes me goofy.

My father was naturally left but had it caned out of him at school so he ended up ampidextrous ( and a better speller than me but that is another story)

My wife is left handed, one son is right, the other left, with one on the way, I wonder what he will be?

At our wedding, when we went to sign the register, out of the five of us, priest, bride, groom, bridesmaid and best man, I was the only righty.

but typing I am ampidextrous, I can use one finger from each hand.

Jon