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As one who marked ambi I'm always a bit baffled by posts by people who indicate that they can only hold their ereader with their dominant hand. While I'm not truly ambidextrous (I suspect that nobody really is) I have extremely mixed dominance. That said, some of my computers have the mouse on the right, some on the left, some have two mice. If the computer is standalone it gets two, if there are two keyboards side by side, one goes on each side, etc. I notice no difference whatsoever.
Eating & drinking handheld food I prefer my left hand, fork in the right, though use chopsticks in both. Cutting, right. Writing I do right handed, but I can write passably with my left and I suspect that with little practice I could write just as crappy with my left hand as I do with my right. I tend to favor strength activities with my left and dexterous activities a little more on the right, but not 100%. For any skill that I was not taught I tend to switch back and forth without thinking about it. Definitely favor my left eye (monocular/gunsight), left ear (phone), and left foot (skating/skiing, though usually kick with my right). |
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Some traditionalists say yes, but modern folk say no. When correctly holding a writing 'brush,' it is held vertically. Strokes (the parts that make up the characters and kana) are ALWAYS made in the same direction each time, just as if you were, when printing the letter 'T,' to make the vertical stroke first, from top to bottom, then the horizontal one second, from left to right. Because the brush is held vertically without resting the hand on the paper, in 'theory' there should be no difference between lefties and righties. Today though, most people DO rest their hands on the paper when writing with a pencil or ball point pen.
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I am left handed at all things, but I was forced to write with my right hand (and Copperplate..) since I was a child. That's the only thing I do with my right hand.
That means that I should be able to do everything with my right hand, in principle. And I can; that is, for example drawing I can do right-as well as lefthanded, but I don't. For the thing is: it doesn't feel 'right' to do it with my right hand. That is not my 'good' hand. It feels completely unnatural to me. |
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I can put on my slippers with my right hand.
Does this mean I might be ambidextrous? Now that we're getting more people answering the poll, the numbers are beginning to normalize. I think we'll see the percentage of lefties dropping down to the 10%-15% figures that the rest of the world uses. Stitchawl |
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Personally, I do not think there is anywhere near as much to this "right hand" vs "left hand" thing as people make it to be. I think there might be a tendency or preference for one side, but that you can train the other side to compensate should you want to put in the effort. Just think about typing for example. Did you know that most right handed people type better with their left hand? The reason? No sure, but perhaps they tend to hold things in their right hand while they type with their left? Or we could blame the mouse, since a right handed person will tend to move their right hand off the keys to grab the mouse, while typing still with their left. You write better with your right or left hand? Maybe that is because you spent YEARS training just one hand to write, while neglecting the other? So that is just my opinion. I do think there is a tendency or preference for one hand or the other, I just do not see it anywhere near as strong as most do. |
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I see it just the other way... (of course.) But that's because I'm left-handed.
I believe there is a dominant side, but that we do cater to it as well. No doubt that we ignore training the other hand in most usual activities, the fact remains that we have a definite dominance in hand, eye, and foot, as well as a different left brain-right brain approach to problem solving. While we 'can' train the body to work well with both sides, this doesn't negate the overall dominance the body decrees. This is the source of my confusion. Stitchawl Last edited by Stitchawl; 02-01-2013 at 08:43 AM. |
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I am by nature right-handed, but I can write passably well with my left hand after having trained myself to do it.
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