ARE YOU RIGHT HANDED, LEFT HANDED OR ...

ML, are you curious . . . or just yellow . . .

Is this the Mapleleaf inquisition?

Entirely right handed - the left hand is only there to stop my watch falling off - and I no longer wear a watch, so....

Well - one way to lose weight!

Left handed, except that I can only use a scissors with my right hand. Go figure!

Absolutely right handed. If I did not need the left hand as an additional support while shooting the M16 assault rifle during my frequent active reserve service periods, I could have easily donated it for transplant, so much useless it is for me in civilian life.

I'm ambiguous...

Totally right-handed, except that when I played basketball, I favored my left hand for dribbling and shooting. No idea why...

Does anyone know anything about what determines the dominant use of one hand over the other? And what about D'art's Dribbling and shooting require fine motor skills; yet, he does everything else with his right hand.

Yellow this...yellow that

I need another voting option - mostly, but not exclusively, right handed

I can shoot a layup, hold a frying plan, play chords, and steer a car with my left hand. Any other activity requires assistance from the right. (In some play-kickboxing lately, though, I did find it easier to react when I led with my left side -- I think because I had my strong leg under me.)

No good stories here, mate (hee hee hee -- "mate").

I guess, I'm in the 'or' category. ci

Right-handed. I'm told that I started out as a lefty, as a toddler, but my mother retrained me to use the right hand to avoid imagined difficulties. My older brother is a lefty so perhaps she saw how clumsy things were for him sometimes.
I steer my car better with my left hand than my right. Go figure?

whooo hooo ! i got to vote !

thanks, ML - ya cute lil smurf :wink:

This is an interesting response--i'd read in college that right-handed people "train" infants to use their right hands, by placing objects in their right hands. Given the many social taboos against left-handedness, this might have some validity. Both of my brothers are/were left-handed--they went through their infancy and "toddler-hood" before the family left New York. However, my sister and I are both right-handed, and we were raised by my right-handed grandparents. This made the more sense to me, as the same source stated that the "primary hand" is larger than the "off-hand"--and both my left hand and left foot are larger than their counterparts--all of which had lead to wonder if i were initially left-handed, and was "trained out of it" . . .

Inasmuch as i have a standard transmission, placed on my right-hand side, i obviously do most of the steering with my left hand . . .

Just some thoughts . . .

BOTH HANDS equally used while playing guitar, piano, harp, hiking/scrambling, or giving massage. I swim sidestroke mostly, switching sides every half minute.

Often use NO HANDS driving a car, left index finger as necessary.

LEFT HAND primary when arm-wrestling, skiing, typing, drinking or eating dinner. (I hate constantly removing a knife from my right hand, so fork and spoon are mostly lefties).

RIGHT HAND primary most of the time ... reading, writing, sewing, puzzles, wallet, ... left hand holds while right hand manipulates. Somersaults and flips usually land on my right arm. Girlfriend always goes on the right side.

ALL OF MY INJURIES, broken foot, torn ligaments, broken wrist, 5 stitches on finger, sprained back, 60 stitches on head, cap on tooth, ... are on the left side. Strange.




TRIVIA:

1) Do most doors push open from the left, and pull open from the right?

2) Stairs going up castle turrets usually wind to the right, so the defender backing up the stairs has the right-handed advantage.

3) Some yoga practices recommend sleeping on the right side to aid digestion. Any basis in fact?

4) Molecules can be left or right -handed. Does a left-handed person digest any differently? :-)

5) In the Northern hemisphere, more drains and toilets spin counter-clockwise than clockwise, due to the Coriolis effect from the rotation of the Earth. In the Southern hemisphere, it's the opposite. (Not. It's an urban legend!)

6) Studies have shown that righties live 9 years longer than lefties, possibly due to accidents. Studies have also shown that both believers and non-believers should understand how studies are done.





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