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Are you: Right handed, left handed, or ambidextrous

  • Right Handed

    Votes: 97 56.7%
  • Left Handed

    Votes: 52 30.4%
  • Ambidextrous

    Votes: 22 12.9%

  • Total voters
    171
I'm right handed.

Side note: I have quite a few relatives that were left handed, but back in the day they got the cain in school if they used it. So many of them are ambidextrous now.
 
I'm right-handed, but I'd say that there is a little bit of ambidextrousness there. I try to do things with my left hand--will even write left-handed from time to time just to see if I can get better at it (slowly, but surely). I'll usually start off one-handed tasks alternating between the two hands, but will usually get tired of that after a while and resort to using the right. The left hand just hasn't got that fluidity or dexterity yet. Still, I would like to be more ambidextrous some day....

I'm usually nice to the hubby and let him sit to the left of me so we don't bump elbows during meals. :)
 
Leftie but kick right footed-play table tennis right handed and pool as well. I usually have my mouse on the left side but no issue to use it right handed (Guess it comes from the mouse at school always being on the right!)
 
i chose right handed because that is the hand i write with, click the mouse with.

But i am capable of doing all other tasks other then writing with my left hand.

Although i once wrote a sentence with both my left and right hand and asked customers at work which looked better ... most everyone said that the one written with my left looked better.

LOL -- just takes more time to do ... i'm going to train my left hand to write after tonight (my last exam for the term)
 
just remembered a fella i once knew who was right handed but used the mouse with his left hand. He was about 45 years old and had been taught to use a computer by someone who was left handed. He naturally thought that you were meant to use the mouse with your left hand
 
Right handed. Im pretty sure that most people could use their left hand for more things, if they were to get into the habit.
 
student_trap said:
just remembered a fella i once knew who was right handed but used the mouse with his left hand. He was about 45 years old and had been taught to use a computer by someone who was left handed. He naturally thought that you were meant to use the mouse with your left hand


I am right handed but mouse ambidextrously. For a while I actually preferred to mouse left handed so my right could run the chopsticks, then I mastered left handed chopsticking...

Anyway my wife and son are both lefties and neither can use the mouse lefthanded.
 
I consider myself ambidextrous. I eat and write left handed, I throw, bat and kick right handed. I can shoot a handgun equally well with either hand.
 
rockthecasbah said:
im ambidextrous. I can't reall write with my left hand because i never practiced, but many things i can switch off between my left and right no problem. Oddly enough, though i write Right-Handed, i naturally hold a hockey stick, golf club, and baseball bat left handed. ;)

same...I was just 'taught' to use my right hand for writing and such when I was little, but now I do anything with either hand (except write)

If I'm hammering a nail/tightening a screw/whatever with my right hand, I'll just switch to my left when I get tired and vice-versa.

I put right-handed anyway because that's how I write.
 
scem0 said:
Right handed but I can do it with either hand.

:)

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Do what now? :p

I use my left for writing, but use a mouse with my right. Feels more natural to use a mouse on the right for some reason.
 
dejo said:
FYI: According to a Dr. Stanley Coren and Clare Porac study, 1 of every 100 80-year-olds are left-handed.

That's because up until 79 years ago, all but a few left handers were burned at the stake as witches. :)
 
MongoTheGeek said:
I am right handed but mouse ambidextrously.

Ditto. Works especially well at work, where my desk is kinda cramped, so it's more effective to have the mouse on the left and some space for writing on the right.

--Eric
 
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