Are you a lefty or a righty?

Lisa1971
Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
Or both? What things do you do with your opposite hand? I am a righty but I cut my steak, chicken, etc. with my left hand. Always have. My brother is a lefty but bats and golfs righty.

So which are you?
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  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Ambidextrous.

    Right is more dominant though.
  • Trained ambidextrous, right hand dominant. I only use my left hand if my right hand gets tired (for writing, drawing, guitar plucking, etc).
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Ambidextrous - Write and eat left handed. Everything else, right
  • angel7472
    angel7472 Posts: 317 Member
    ambidextrous but prominent left hand. Bat, throw, tennis with right. Eat and write mainly with left.
  • aakaakaak
    aakaakaak Posts: 1,240 Member
    Mostly right handed. I can sorta do things left handed. I skateboard goofy footed and play pool left handed only.
  • I write, cook and eat lefty, brush my teeth lefty too . Pretty much everything else is with my right hand. I bat, bowl, golf, throw and kick as a righty. Fun stuff. If I do new things, I never know if I'll be a righty or lefty till I try it. Trying to knit, and I still can't tell which hand is going to work better. I do crochet left, so left will probably win out.
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
    Trained ambidextrous for many activities, born right handed.

    I eat lefty most of the time, and can throw and catch very well with either, to the point that I've pitched baseball games lefthanded rather than right though I do throw harder and slightly more accurately right handed. Can dribble and shoot with either.

    Left footed though, and my right foot is just almost useless for anything other than standing on. :ohwell:
  • _MG_
    _MG_ Posts: 453 Member
    The best - Lefty!
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Very much a lefty, my right hand is pretty dumb. Good thing though, since my brain tumor is in the left side of my brain, my left-handedness meant much of my language is on the right side, so I didn't lose much of it when I had brain surgery!
  • willrun4bagels
    willrun4bagels Posts: 838 Member
    The best - Lefty!

    This!
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    My hubs was born left, but a teacher forced him to switch to right. He shoot a gun left but a bow right, pool left, eats right, and still writes right.
  • craignev
    craignev Posts: 1,247 Member
    I write with my left but do everything else with my right.
  • Very much a lefty, my right hand is pretty dumb. Good thing though, since my brain tumor is in the left side of my brain, my left-handedness meant much of my language is on the right side, so I didn't lose much of it when I had brain surgery!

    Funny you should say that. I had a brain tumor when I was 16 (going to be 30 in April). The tumor was on the right side, but with my ambidexterity, they weren't sure where my speech center was. I ended up having something called the Wada Test where the put to sleep half of your brain at a time to determine which hemisphere your speech (and to a certain extent, memory) comes from. Mine luckily was on the left side. The test was actually pretty cool, I tried to speak and couldn't when they shut that side down. It was so weird, I could think about what I wanted to say but couldn't even form the words with my mouth. I burst out laughing, I couldn't help it, it just felt so odd. My neurologist had me remember 3 words before the test and wanted me to repeat them afterwards. Cat. Boat. Texas. I don't think I'll ever forget them. :-D
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Very much a lefty, my right hand is pretty dumb. Good thing though, since my brain tumor is in the left side of my brain, my left-handedness meant much of my language is on the right side, so I didn't lose much of it when I had brain surgery!

    Funny you should say that. I had a brain tumor when I was 16 (going to be 30 in April). The tumor was on the right side, but with my ambidexterity, they weren't sure where my speech center was. I ended up having something called the Wada Test where the put to sleep half of your brain at a time to determine which hemisphere your speech (and to a certain extent, memory) comes from. Mine luckily was on the left side. The test was actually pretty cool, I tried to speak and couldn't when they shut that side down. It was so weird, I could think about what I wanted to say but couldn't even form the words with my mouth. I burst out laughing, I couldn't help it, it just felt so odd. My neurologist had me remember 3 words before the test and wanted me to repeat them afterwards. Cat. Boat. Texas. I don't think I'll ever forget them. :-D

    That is interesting. Now they just do an fMRI (functional MRI) where they have you do multiple tests during an MRI and the parts of your brain being used light up on the scan. My language mostly lit up on the right side of my brain so they felt safe doing the surgery. Most of my motor usage was still affected so I couldn't talk at all after the surgery but that came back eventually.
  • twinteensmom
    twinteensmom Posts: 371 Member
    Very dominant lefty, here. I can't even hold a pen properly in my right hand, much less write with it.
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    I categorise myself as "ambisinister" - like a couple of other posters, I don't know when learning something new whether I'm going to be better right- or left-handed. So I write with my right, eat right-handed and knit right-handed, but I crochet, play pool, tennis, darts and hockey with my left. I use a knife with my right, but a saw and scissors with my left. It confuses the hell out of most people!
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    pretty much ambidextrous.
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Left side dominant with everything except shooting guns.
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    Pretty much ambidextrous, but right dominant. I use my right hand for writing (because I had to pick a hand when I was little) but my left for drawing. I usually eat right-handed but can switch pretty easily. When I was in gymnastics (many moons ago :laugh:) I tumbled left and danced right, and had to work to be able to do each both ways.

    Edit - oh, I've recently been learning to snowboard, and I generally prefer goofy stance (lefty) but I'm a switch-hitter there, too.
  • tlcarolinagirl
    tlcarolinagirl Posts: 1,700 Member
    I am definitely a righty. Can't do much with my left hand, which is weird bc both parents and 3 brothers are all lefties. Hmmm.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    I'm weird. I'm not ambidextrous, but I do a number of similar things with both hands.

    I play guitar righty. But I play bass both lefty and righty.

    I swing a golf club righty. But I swing a baseball bat both righty (primarily) and lefty (for wiffle ball). I also shoot a hockey puck both lefty (when in goal) and righty (all other times).
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    Lefty for fine motor skills, like eating, writing, shooting pool.

    Righty for large motor skills, like sports, fishing and driving.
  • Mrsallypants
    Mrsallypants Posts: 887 Member
    Righty in so many ways:

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  • Building_Bulk
    Building_Bulk Posts: 20,596 Member
    For the most part I am a righty but pretty efficient with my left hand for most things.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    I am "Mixed-handed" - which means, I do some things with my left and some things with my right, and I can do some things with either - but most tasks i cannot do equally well with both. For example - I eat and write with my left hand, and I can eat and write with my right hand, but not nearly as well.

    i think true "ambidextrous" means you can do tasks equally with either hand.
  • caitconquersweight
    caitconquersweight Posts: 316 Member
    Lefty! I use my left side for pretty much everything. I can eat with my right hand, but I don't like to. I use the mouse with my right hand, and I use a can opener with my right hand. Everything else is done with my left.
  • Derp_Diggler
    Derp_Diggler Posts: 1,456 Member
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  • bd0027
    bd0027 Posts: 1,053 Member
    I'm a lefty. (:

    I do everything with my left hand except when it comes to pleasure. My left hand is stupid when it comes to that.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    Righty
  • I'm left-handed but I use right-handed scissors. I used to eat with my knife in my left hand and fork in my right when I was a child, but my parents didn't think it was 'proper' and so I had to get used to using them the other way round.