Left or Right handed ?

[ScottM]

I'm like quite a few have implied: things I do single handed I do left handed (mostly) but things I do involving two hands I do right handed, but I'm a bit mixed.
For example:

• mouse: right handed
• squash: left handed
• writing: left handed
• (cricket) bowling: left handed
• (cricket) batting: right handed
• golf: right handed, needing both hands
• eating (spoon or fork exclusively): left handed
• eating (knife and fork): right handed
• eating (fork/knife/spoon) confused, mixed and difficult more than any other activity, with the split betw left and right
• surfing: if I did, right foot forward, ie probably left handed

There's a surprising mix here just seeing the variety. It'd be interesting, but not accurare with a relatively small sample size, seeing what genre and skill matches up between the combinations.

[dacar]

What is interesting, to me, is that out of 49 voters so far, 15 are left handed. But it is generally accepted that only about 10% of the world population is left handed. So left handers might be more inclined to be photographers as our percentages here are sitting at about 30% of voters.

... or that lefties often have a right to complain and will do so, while righties don't care enough to comment.

[ScottM]

... or that lefties often have a right to complain and will do so, while righties don't care enough to comment.

LOL. Lefties are always right. The left rational brain finds reasons, while the right creatively thinks it's right always :P

[OzzieTraveller]

G'day Rick

My mouse-computing days started back in the late 70s - early 80s, and I soon found that the so-called ergonomic mouse gave me unwanted pains in the right wrist > so I tried left-handed mouse operation and have never looked back

In the 15 or so years I was running adult-ed computing classes, I always put the right-hand > left-mouse option to students. About 1/3 of all students found that, although they were right-handed the mouse in the left hand was comfortable. By default, it means that 2/3 found it uncomfortable ... but that's not the point of the exercise

Cameras-wise, I am constantly surprised that not a single camera on the marketplace is designed for left-handed use. Maybe okay for us, but I have had students with no right-hand who have had to turn the camera upside-down in their left hand to operate it - balancing it with the stump of a right arm ... !

Regards, Phil

[geoffsta]

I'm right handed for everything except woodchopping. My father was a champion woodchopper, and I had a go at junior level. He set the standing block for right handed, and I failed miserably. He st it for Left hand, and I got a trophy for winning. (I only did it so I could beat my brother. He had been practicing for weeks.)

[FallingHorse]

I am predominately right handed but do a number of things left handed. My mum was a lefty so I guess it was just the way I was shown when I was little. I shoot (rifle) left handed and look through the view finder with my left eye as I am left eye dominant so I get smudge marks on the scrren too

[andrewvid]

funny how we only determine if we are 'right or 'left handed by which hand we write with... i only use left to write but everything else i use my right.. i eat, text, point and hold my camera!

[jim]

Good point Andrew. Try this test:

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/lh_tests.html

I'm left handed but I came up exactly 50/50.

[andrewvid]

WOW!! thanks for that link jim.. those 1-10 points actually made me realise.. i do a lot more things with my left..

[rodw]

There's a theory that handedness is like water going down the plug hole in different directions each side of the Equator.

In the southern hemisphere we should all be left handed but as civilization started in the northern hemisphere, left handed was considered sinister. Go ahead look up your dictionary for sinister!

So there you have it! If you are an Aussie and are right handed you are the exception.

We lefties rule!

[Dylan & Marianne]

I almost always uyse the mouse with my right hand though lately, sometimes while entertaining Charlotte, I've had to use my left :P

[Geoff79]

Right and right for me. Though I can see the RSI creeping in already so probably a good idea to have a go at the left hand...

[kneekon]

Glad I'm right handed, my other hobby is using fountain pens...