Are you a lefty or a righty?

[occb]

I am both bored and curious today (I hate those moods), and was just wondering how many southpaws and non-southpaws there are here

I'm a lefty, and the only lefty in my family in living memory. I used to write backwards because I would mirror exactly what the righties in my family were doing. It took me an awfully long time to learn how to tie my shoes, and I read clocks wrong, because I would read them backwards. I still get confused sometimes.

[Rose7]

Lefty here but I do all right with my right too. There are some things I can't do at all with my right.

[Nakamova]

Righty. But in my family of seven there are three lefties, and four righties, so I can relate to the southpaws out there...

[Rose7]

It took me an awfully long time to learn how to tie my shoes, and I read clocks wrong, because I would read them backwards. I still get confused sometimes.

It took me a long time to learn to tie my shoes and read clocks but I never thought about why that is lol. Maybe all the righties in my life? I still get confused sometimes too lol.

It is a fun thing to think about. When I fold pants, I have them facing a totally different direction than righties. I never thought about it until it was pointed out lol.

[occb]

I avoid folding as much as possible because I find it difficult I'll have to see if I do the same thing though.

[LuckyStarAngel3503]

i am about 95% righty, but there are some things that i can do better with my left hand then my right.

[Rose7]

I avoid folding as much as possible because I find it difficult I'll have to see if I do the same thing though.

Try opening jars with your right! I've had to twist my brain around to figure it out lololol. I never felt more stupid lol!

[occb]

Try opening jars with your right! I've had to twist my brain around to figure it out lololol. I never felt more stupid lol!

I have tried! I know, I KNOW! Same with using a screwdriver other-handed.

[Rose7]

I have tried! I know, I KNOW! Same with using a screwdriver other-handed.

lolololol I will have to try the screwdriver now!

[BuckeyeFan]

Extremely right handed. Difficulty with almost anything left handed. That whole side of my body is a slight issue. It was thought that I had a very mild case of cerebal palsy as an infant. Had to wear some leg braces at night, but so early that I do not remember them.

My Mom still thinks this may be the cause of my E, even though the tonic clonic seizures didn't start until I was 20. Other signs from my youth "may" indicate that I had problems previously.

[occb]

I was just reading about left handedness and sidedness -- which are not the same thing. Many people may be left-handed, but otherwise (with legs, or eyes, etc) right-sided, which makes my head dizzy to think about. You must be both right-handed and right-sided as a result, Buckeye. They say long-term disability (8 months or more), and being forced to use the other hand or side can make you adopt it permanently.

I do very few things in a righty way. Like baseball in school -- I batted right, but I think that was more out of seeing others do it that way, instead of that it felt natural at the time. I also am learning the bass the right-handed way, but that's because I have previous grade-school ukelele experience, which was unavoidably right-handed.

[occb]

I found a small, amusing sidedness test over here. It's interesting -- apparently I'm a little right-eyed and never realized I used my right side for the distance looking, counting with my fingers, and when I folded my arms. Huh.

We all, of course, know in which hand we hold a pen, but how far does this bias extend throughout your body? Are you left-eared? Left eyed? Here is a simple test you can apply to yourself.

Imagine the centre of your back is itching. Which hand do you scratch it with?
Interlock your fingers. Which thumb is uppermost?

Imagine you are applauding. Start clapping your hands. Which hand is uppermost?

Wink at an imaginary friend straight in front of you. Which eye does the winking?

Put your hands behind your back, one holding the other. Which hand is doing the holding?

Someone in front of you is shouting but you cannot hear the words. Cup your ear to hear better. Which ear do you cup?

Count to three on your fingers, using the forefinger of the other hand. Which forefinger do you use?

Tilt your head over on to one shoulder. Which shoulder does it touch?

Fixate a small distant object with your eyes and point directly at it with your forefinger. Now close one eye. Now change eyes. Which eye was open when the fingertip remained in line with the small object? (When the other eye, the non-dominant one, is open and the dominant eye is closed, the finger will appear to move to one side of the object.)

Fold your arms. Which forearm is uppermost?

If you have always considered yourself to be right or left-handed you will probably now have discovered that your body is less than total in its devotion to its favoured side. If you are right-handed the chances are that you were not able to be 'right' 10 times.

[roo]

I always thought of myself as predominently right sided, but wow, this test is freaky

OK here are the results -- back scratch - right hand, interlocked fingers -left, applauding - left, winking - left eye, hands behind back - right,
cupping ear - left, counting on fingers - right, head tilt - left, dominant eye - right, folded arms - left.

I'm now going to go to sleep (hopefully) and wonder which side I will predominently sleep on

[Rae1889]

I am ambidextrous...I can write the same in both hands, although my writing styles are different. Left hand is big and loopy and girly, my right hand has smaller, mor artsy writing. I paint with both hands (two brushes at once, on in each hand) and I can catch and throw with both hands, as well as kick with both feet. My right is dominant, as my left eye is colour blind (red/green from being kicked in the with some sharp old man toenails by accident) and my right ear is better.

I play guitar left handed, but violin right handed. I can do it opposstie but its slower and more mistakes. Flute was hard as I had to play it right handed and it felt more comfortable in the left.

As far as with my epilepsy goes, I don't think my jerks have a preference of which side, but my tonic clonics, my head moves to the right and then i stiffen. (not sure if that means left side tenses?) also with my absences, my head and eyes turn to the right. I usually bite the left side of my tounge or cheeks.

[Nakamova]

Based on the test, I have a few lefty tendencies. I know that I shoot pool as a lefty rather than righty. My two sisters have one nearsighted and one farsighted eye, and one of them writes lefty and bats lefty, but throws righty, so they tend to fall in the ambidextrous middle.

[occb]

I am ambidextrous...I can write the same in both hands, although my writing styles are different. Left hand is big and loopy and girly, my right hand has smaller, mor artsy writing. I paint with both hands (two brushes at once, on in each hand) and I can catch and throw with both hands, as well as kick with both feet.

I didn't know you painted! I wish I could do it both-handed.

I catch and throw with my left, so I totally sucked at softball and baseball

That's odd that your play pool southpaw style Nak. Did you get taught by a lefty or did it just feel correct for you?

[Nakamova]

No one taught me to play pool southpaw. I think it's because my right hand feels more stable, so it seems better to rest the cue tip on it and use the left hand to do the shooting. Either way I'm lousy though! Now bowling is another story -- I'm definitely a righty there, no way could I bowl lefthanded.

[C0urt]

amidextrous. my parents saw i was left handed as a child, and would only hand me things on my right side, i can use both decently well. but there are something i can only do with one hand or the other.

truthfully I still really dont my left from my right when doing stuff and have to think about tools go when working on stuff ( i used to be a mechanic)

[hootie]

My son is right-handed, although he does some things left-handed...I think due to the fact that he is autistic and his brother (who teaches him things like playing Wii) is a lefty. I don't think he would do things left-handed if his brother was right-handed.

[occb]

I was reading about how handedness can have an effect on how you think -- that lefties are usually visual simultaneous, and righties are usually linear sequential thinkers.

I had no idea handedness could have such an impact on that. This explains why I drive my partner nuts -- I'll ask him five to ten questions in a row expecting him to pluck one out of thin air and answer it (he's a righty). He always says "Which one do you want me to answer?" and I say "Whichever you want," and then he growls at me and tells me "Ask me one at a time!"