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"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue le
by roryrjb 8y ago
"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experiences?
- DKnoll 8y agoI write and do all other stuff requiring dexterity with my left, but I use my right to operate a mouse. I can use my left as well, but I learned to use my right hand for convenience.
- roryrjb 8y agoYeah use the mouse with my right as well, but I've never knowingly made a conscious decision to learn to use my right, how I use things just seems natural to me.
- cgriswald 8y agoI can mouse equally well with either hand but how often do you find a mouse on the left side of a keyboard? Keyboards themselves are arguably left-handed devices, influencing the decision to mouse with the right further. Similarly, I 10-key right-handed. Many things I do right-handed are not preferences but just learned responses to how the world works.
- nugga 8y agoI've had some thoughts about liking to see some studies on whether people who write left handed or are mostly left handed dominant still mostly use mouse with their right hand. And to take it further, are these people playing first person shooters with invert mouse more often than right handed people OR left handed people who use mouse with left hand?
- dwd 8y agoIt is convenient as you don't have to swap a right-hander's mouse to the other side of the keyboard to use it. I very rarely see a right-hander who can do the same. Strangely I find my right to be more accurate but could be down to the extra concentration applied (particularly playing sport). You can seriously mess with a batsman in cricket if you can bowl with the right and then switch to left. Inigo: I admit it: you are better than I am! Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo: Because I know something you don't know. Man in Black: And what is that? Inigo: I am not left handed! [switches the sword to his right hand and starts driving him back]
- wingspar 8y agoI find being left handed and using the mouse in my right hand very useful. I can have a pencil writing notes in my left hand, while I control the computer via mouse in my right. Similarity, mouse the cursor with my right and type with my left.
- gabelerner 8y agoleft: - write - pool cue - brush teeth - scissors - spoon - fork right: - throw - punch - tennis/ping pong - knife i've always seen it as left=precision, right=force for me
- roryrjb 8y agoYeah now thinking about it the "left=precision, right=force" statement does make a lot of sense for me.
- a_e_k 8y agoThat's pretty close to how I do things and I've tended to view the dichotomy similarly. To add to the comment, when batting I'm more comfortable right handed and when kicking I prefer my right foot. I've also grown accustomed to using scissors and mice right handed out of necessity (though one might also argue that scissors frequently involve power). What's odd to me is that I often don't know which hand I'm going to prefer for a task until I try it. Reading this thread, it's interesting to see that this may actually reasonably common. I don't think I've met anyone else who works this way before, and I realize that this sub-thread is rather self-selecting. Still, it's an existence proof that there's more than one of us.
- theonemind 8y agoI also mostly follow this pattern also. As I imagine throwing with my left arm and right arm, the left arm feels a bit "numb" comparatively, like my brain doesn't have as many neurons devoted to controlling it or reading information from it. I can't describe it very well. I wouldn't imagine anything unique in that, and a left armed person could just as easily feel that imagining doing those things with their right arm. It just feels odd to pay attention to the difference in how my brain processes both sides.
- benj111 8y agoI'm the same, but I'm rubbish at throwing, hitting, sports in general. So I'm undecided whether I support your left=precision, right=force theory.
- fian 8y ago
- schredder 8y agoI write, eat, hold a pool cue, golf club, and rifle left-handed but play guitar and hockey right-handed (among other things). Most of my life, my vocabulary defined either “left-handed” or “right-handed” people, where I’d consider you and I left-handed but with right-handed adaptations. (“A lefty living in a right-handed world”) But maybe “mixed handed” is a more accurate term.
- roryrjb 8y agoInteresting... I'm pretty sure I hold a golf club right handed, but I didn't play much and it was a long time ago so I'm not sure, but I used to play with a friend who was definitely left handed, and he was different to me and everyone else in this respect. I play guitar right handed as well. I've described myself as ambidextrous before, but that's probably incorrect, but it raises the question for me, if that means "equally adapted" how much of that translates into real world activities?
- a_e_k 8y agoPerhaps "cross-dominant" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance) [which I just came across] is a better term for people like us. I don't view myself as ambidextrous because I'm definitely not equally good with both hands. Rather, handedness for me is strongly preferential based on the task.
- masonic 8y agobut play guitar and hockey right-handed It's normal that one shoots right in hockey when one is left-handed (hence the rarity of right shooters). It's counterintuitive when going from years if baseball to hockey for the first time.
- dwd 8y agoIf you play field hockey the stick is right-handed similar to a golf club. A guitar is potentially better for a left-hander if your left is more dexterous.
- jstimpfle 8y agoleft hand: hand-write, soccer (kick with left foot), tooth brush, scissors, ping-pong, billard cue right hand: computer mouse, handball (throw with left hand), gun-shooting?, guitar, mini-golf, hockey, baseball
- virtualwhys 8y agoExcept for baseball (where a pure lefty would also bat left handed), you're almost entirely left handed (i.e. do the same as pure lefties and righties do). Unless I'm misunderstanding the guitar bit, assume you mean fret with your right hand. If it's the other way around that's pretty cool, and I would think highly unusual, to fret with the hand that you don't write with. Actually, now I'm totally confused, I write with my left and fret a guitar with my left, which might not be normal :)
- crucialfelix 8y agoHendrix wrote with his right, but strummed with his left and fretted with his right. He also used a right handed guitar but turned it the other way and strung it for a left handed.
- Yetanfou 8y agoI just play a right-handed guitar 'upside-down'. While this makes it harder to finger many chords as I need to reach over the lower strings to reach the higher ones it makes it easier to just pick up any guitar I come across. I learnt it this way because of the way I learnt to play guitar, by picking up one of such and starting to play it - little did I know I did it 'wrong'.
- jstimpfle 8y agoI mistakenly wrote "throw with left hand" but it's the right hand as the others on that line. As to guitar playing: Strumming with my right, holding the guitar to the left, like regular/right-handed guitar players. (Snowboarding, also regular, left foot in front).
- deltron3030 8y agoEverything right handed (I'm good at drawing), except tin/can opening, there the right hand holds and the left one applies force. But I'm a clear left footer, I kick better and control force better with my left foot.
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- schitzapplebits 8y agoYou should hold a pool cue and a rifle based on your dominant eye, not necessarily your dominant hand.