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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 dominan

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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tejohnso 2y ago
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.
- rabid_turtle 2y ago
  Same here. Left hand is precision, right hand is power.
  - aorloff 2y ago
    ok me too. There are a lot of us here Curious - was your mom a lefty ? (mine was)
aklemm 2y ago
This is me exactly. I always say "strength in my right, finesse in my left" even though it's not exactly accurate; I couldn't hit the ground with a football from my left hand.
InMice 2y ago
Im also like that..randomly mixed. I write left, but use scissors always with right. Throw and kick are right, but swing and bat is left. Computer mouse left. Taking a phone call is always left hand on left ear...but holding phone to use or text is always right hand. Self check out? Back to left hand for that mostly Lol. If a backpack is on one shoulder it feels weird if it's not on my left shoulder despite being more right "armed".
- _whiteCaps_ 2y ago
  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?
  - cruffle_duffle 2y ago
    The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered. Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, snowboarding & skateboarding, shooting, etc. These things all have left-hand optimized equivalants (eg: left handed clubs, snowboards with the bindings set top "goofy", guns with the safety on the opposite side, etc). In all cases its a tradeoff -- you can learn and get good on the equipment designed just for you and then wind up sucking when you are handed equipment that is used by most everybody else or you can just learn to use the "normal" equipment even if slightly suboptimal. Guns, for example, eject their used shells off the right side of the weapon--good luck getting one that ejects off the left side so you can old it opposite of everybody and not have hot metal land on your face. Computer mice are the same deal... some of those bastards are even molded explicitly for right hand use and are pretty uncomfortable in the left hand. Being left handed gets weird quick because you are in a minority that most product designers simply don't consider.
    - hug 2y ago
      Scissors are one of those things that, as a mostly left-handed but extremely right-eye dominant person, I have always resented and found difficult, but using a quality pair of left-handed scissors is almost an epiphany when you realise exactly how inconvenient a lot of things in the world are just by virtue of your handedness. A significant number of cheap "left handed" scissors I've used in my life are right-handed scissors with a left-handed grip on them, and using them is more comfortable but no more precise. All of that said, I've found the golden path of learning any new tool that has a specific handedness is just to practice doing it right handed. This is especially true of anything that is a kind of "place setting", I eat with a knife & fork in the right-handed pattern, I use a computer mouse with my right hand. If I'm going to sit down somewhere and have an array of items in front of me with an 'expected' handedness, I'll just do it that way. I do still resent it though.
pestaa 2y ago
Me too. It's called mixed-handedness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
a_e_k 2y ago
I'm exactly the same on all those (and add kicking to the right-sided list). Cross-dominant [1] is the usual term I use for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
bamboozled 2y ago
I write with my left hand, play guitar with my right, and use the mouse with my right. Same as you though, I'm not ambidextrous
gsk22 2y ago
> I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed. Dominant eye and hand don't have to match; in fact, they often don't. To quote Wikipedia: > ...the side of the dominant eye and the dominant hand do not always match. This is because both hemispheres control both eyes, but each one takes charge of a different half of the field of vision, and therefore a different half of both retinas
- boogieknite 2y ago
  im embarrassingly right handed but also left eye dominant. my family is obsessed with bird hunting and took a while before my dad realized i had to close my left eye to hit anything
aorloff 2y ago
Same. Small motor lefty, large motor righty
fforflo 2y ago
Metoo kind of... Write right-handed, fork on the right, but knife on the left. Throw with the left hand, kick with the left. Mouse on the right. Also wished the gas pedal was on the left :D
virtualwhys 2y ago
Left: Write, eat, brush teeth, scissors, chop vegetables, etc. Basically fine motor skills on the left. Right: Throw a baseball, shoot a basketball, play tennis, etc. Power movements on the right. Could always do some sports lefty, like switch hit in baseball, kick a football (soccer) past half field, or play pool, those kinds of things, but right side has always been stronger. The only sport where I am much better lefty than righty is table tennis -- probably because to play at higher levels you need fine motor skills, not just brute force.
- dreamcompiler 2y ago
  I'm right-handed for almost everything but a few years ago I tried bowling with my left hand and my scores improved. I cannot imagine trying to throw a baseball with my left hand, but maybe I should do it anyway.
stoolpigeon 2y ago
I'm the same - I call it "pseudoambidextrous". I lived in Europe for 10 years and that was nice as far as eating goes. Here in the USA I always try to grab a left corner so I'm not bumping elbows with anyone. I had an uncle just like us, my son is a true full on lefty.
mullingitover 2y ago
There’s a term for this: cross dominant. I have the same condition, the research is all over the place about whether it’s a good or bad thing. It generally means the brain hasn’t fully picked a side, so some operations have to cross the corpus callosum which can add latency.
portaouflop 2y ago
I do basically everything with my left — but I do use the mouse with my right. Not sure what that means…
- Tor3 2y ago
  As a (mostly) rightie, I use the mouse with my right, except if I feel shoulder pain. Then I take a week on the left hand. And my shoulder avoids developing a chronic issue.
- wildzzz 2y ago
  Because there are certain things that you just learn with that hand because it's traditional. My wife usually uses her mouse in the right hand but she actually prefers using it left handed.
ccppurcell 2y ago
Anything I didn't have to be taught to do, I do with my left hand or the left handed way. Opening bottles etc. But I write and play sports/musical instruments with my right hand. With a bit of practise I can write neatly with my left but it's a bit slower. I started using a computer mouse with my left hand so that I could put a notepad just to the right of the keyboard and not compete for space with the mouse.
obfuscator 2y ago
I am exactly like this. When I was learning to write I frequently changed hands, until my teacher told me, that I have 3 days to figure out with which hand I want to write. Left felt slightly better to me, but by that time I was eating like my completely right-handed family and using scissors with the right. I also play guitar as a right-handed would. I tried a left-handed bass for a bit and it was super awkward. It also means strumming is much harder for me than changing notes on the guitar. I struggled so hard with clawfinger banjo playing, that I gave it up. All later skills, like shooting a bow, I do as a right-handed, since I am right-eyed. This is hard to do, since my left arm is much stronger than my right and you need more strength in the string-pulling arm. I feel wrong and awkward a lot. Writing on a keyboard is very liberating. But when I was playing first person shooters in my teenage years, my aim (right-hand mouse) was always bad, while my footwork (left-hand WASD) was very good :D

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tejohnso 2y ago

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.

rabid_turtle 2y ago
Same here. Left hand is precision, right hand is power.
- aorloff 2y ago
  ok me too. There are a lot of us here Curious - was your mom a lefty ? (mine was)

aklemm 2y ago

This is me exactly. I always say "strength in my right, finesse in my left" even though it's not exactly accurate; I couldn't hit the ground with a football from my left hand.

InMice 2y ago

Im also like that..randomly mixed. I write left, but use scissors always with right. Throw and kick are right, but swing and bat is left. Computer mouse left. Taking a phone call is always left hand on left ear...but holding phone to use or text is always right hand. Self check out? Back to left hand for that mostly Lol. If a backpack is on one shoulder it feels weird if it's not on my left shoulder despite being more right "armed".

_whiteCaps_ 2y ago
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?
- cruffle_duffle 2y ago
  The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered. Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, snowboarding & skateboarding, shooting, etc. These things all have left-hand optimized equivalants (eg: left handed clubs, snowboards with the bindings set top "goofy", guns with the safety on the opposite side, etc). In all cases its a tradeoff -- you can learn and get good on the equipment designed just for you and then wind up sucking when you are handed equipment that is used by most everybody else or you can just learn to use the "normal" equipment even if slightly suboptimal. Guns, for example, eject their used shells off the right side of the weapon--good luck getting one that ejects off the left side so you can old it opposite of everybody and not have hot metal land on your face. Computer mice are the same deal... some of those bastards are even molded explicitly for right hand use and are pretty uncomfortable in the left hand. Being left handed gets weird quick because you are in a minority that most product designers simply don't consider.
  - hug 2y ago
    Scissors are one of those things that, as a mostly left-handed but extremely right-eye dominant person, I have always resented and found difficult, but using a quality pair of left-handed scissors is almost an epiphany when you realise exactly how inconvenient a lot of things in the world are just by virtue of your handedness. A significant number of cheap "left handed" scissors I've used in my life are right-handed scissors with a left-handed grip on them, and using them is more comfortable but no more precise. All of that said, I've found the golden path of learning any new tool that has a specific handedness is just to practice doing it right handed. This is especially true of anything that is a kind of "place setting", I eat with a knife & fork in the right-handed pattern, I use a computer mouse with my right hand. If I'm going to sit down somewhere and have an array of items in front of me with an 'expected' handedness, I'll just do it that way. I do still resent it though.

pestaa 2y ago

Me too. It's called mixed-handedness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance

a_e_k 2y ago

I'm exactly the same on all those (and add kicking to the right-sided list). Cross-dominant [1] is the usual term I use for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance

bamboozled 2y ago

I write with my left hand, play guitar with my right, and use the mouse with my right. Same as you though, I'm not ambidextrous

gsk22 2y ago

> I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed. Dominant eye and hand don't have to match; in fact, they often don't. To quote Wikipedia: > ...the side of the dominant eye and the dominant hand do not always match. This is because both hemispheres control both eyes, but each one takes charge of a different half of the field of vision, and therefore a different half of both retinas

boogieknite 2y ago
im embarrassingly right handed but also left eye dominant. my family is obsessed with bird hunting and took a while before my dad realized i had to close my left eye to hit anything

aorloff 2y ago

Same. Small motor lefty, large motor righty

fforflo 2y ago

Metoo kind of... Write right-handed, fork on the right, but knife on the left. Throw with the left hand, kick with the left. Mouse on the right. Also wished the gas pedal was on the left :D

virtualwhys 2y ago

Left: Write, eat, brush teeth, scissors, chop vegetables, etc. Basically fine motor skills on the left. Right: Throw a baseball, shoot a basketball, play tennis, etc. Power movements on the right. Could always do some sports lefty, like switch hit in baseball, kick a football (soccer) past half field, or play pool, those kinds of things, but right side has always been stronger. The only sport where I am much better lefty than righty is table tennis -- probably because to play at higher levels you need fine motor skills, not just brute force.

dreamcompiler 2y ago
I'm right-handed for almost everything but a few years ago I tried bowling with my left hand and my scores improved. I cannot imagine trying to throw a baseball with my left hand, but maybe I should do it anyway.

stoolpigeon 2y ago

I'm the same - I call it "pseudoambidextrous". I lived in Europe for 10 years and that was nice as far as eating goes. Here in the USA I always try to grab a left corner so I'm not bumping elbows with anyone. I had an uncle just like us, my son is a true full on lefty.

mullingitover 2y ago

There’s a term for this: cross dominant. I have the same condition, the research is all over the place about whether it’s a good or bad thing. It generally means the brain hasn’t fully picked a side, so some operations have to cross the corpus callosum which can add latency.

portaouflop 2y ago

I do basically everything with my left — but I do use the mouse with my right. Not sure what that means…

Tor3 2y ago
As a (mostly) rightie, I use the mouse with my right, except if I feel shoulder pain. Then I take a week on the left hand. And my shoulder avoids developing a chronic issue.
wildzzz 2y ago
Because there are certain things that you just learn with that hand because it's traditional. My wife usually uses her mouse in the right hand but she actually prefers using it left handed.

ccppurcell 2y ago

Anything I didn't have to be taught to do, I do with my left hand or the left handed way. Opening bottles etc. But I write and play sports/musical instruments with my right hand. With a bit of practise I can write neatly with my left but it's a bit slower. I started using a computer mouse with my left hand so that I could put a notepad just to the right of the keyboard and not compete for space with the mouse.

obfuscator 2y ago

I am exactly like this. When I was learning to write I frequently changed hands, until my teacher told me, that I have 3 days to figure out with which hand I want to write. Left felt slightly better to me, but by that time I was eating like my completely right-handed family and using scissors with the right. I also play guitar as a right-handed would. I tried a left-handed bass for a bit and it was super awkward. It also means strumming is much harder for me than changing notes on the guitar. I struggled so hard with clawfinger banjo playing, that I gave it up. All later skills, like shooting a bow, I do as a right-handed, since I am right-eyed. This is hard to do, since my left arm is much stronger than my right and you need more strength in the string-pulling arm. I feel wrong and awkward a lot. Writing on a keyboard is very liberating. But when I was playing first person shooters in my teenage years, my aim (right-hand mouse) was always bad, while my footwork (left-hand WASD) was very good :D