Are you a lefty or a righty?

Lefty for fine motor skills, like eating, writing, shooting pool.

Righty for large motor skills, like sports, fishing and driving.

For the most part I am a righty but pretty efficient with my left hand for most things.

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.

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.

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.

Righty, right here!!

Ambidextrous Here as well but Im all over the place because my dominant writing hand is Left but for sports its right. I just ping pong around! LOL

<--- righty for everything except dribbling a basketball and er, 'personal care' (i broke my R arm when i was 9 when we were learning basketball in PE and had to learn to do a couple of things w/ L).

my 8-y.o. cousin is a source of interest and concern for myself and the rest of my family: he's a natural lefty, but they taught him to write right-handed. he's a little sports stud (my ex got his baseball hooks in him, wants to turn him into the next mickey mantle) and has fantastic eye-hand coordination, bats lefty, hits well, plays soccer too. he doesn't seem to be doing well in school. :frown: doesn't like it, doesn't like to read, seems dyslexic, has difficulty with math, too. he's working with a tutor a couple of days a week. i'm wondering if there is any correlation between left-handedness and dyslexia...

I did a handedness test at uni in a neurobiology lecture.... I'm ambidextrous but neither hand is as dextrous as a handed person's dominant hand. Most people score more than 20 in their dominant hand and less than 10 in their non-dominant hand... I scored 14 with one hand and 15 with the other.

I don't have a dominant eye either. Even though I have keratoconus in one eye (so one eye has significantly better vision than the other), in terms of stereoscopic vision, neither eye is dominant. This, apparently, is the reason why I tend to walk into stuff like door frames.

skills that have to be practiced a lot, I pick one hand and practice with that hand, so certain skills I'm a lefty, others I'm a righty, some I'm equally good at either:

writing on paper: right hand is neater and faster
writing on something big like a whiteboard: no difference
typing: I touch type so use both hands together, before I learned to do that I'd one finger type with one hand and when it got tired switch to the other and was equally good with either.
guitar: righty.
golf and ice hockey: lefty
cricket: righty - but I should have been taught cricket left handed because I naturally grip a bat etc the left handed way, but my dad always corrected my grip rather than correcting my stance to a lefty stance
eating: equally good with either hand
judo: I could fight equally as comfortably left handed or right handed, and switched frequently during fights just to confuse my opponent.
arm wrestling: left arm is stronger
fencing: I couldn't do fencing at all because my natural inclination is to fight with both hands, and to switch hands as per the situation, and you can't do that in fencing. so sod fencing. I'll stick to forms of fighting that require two hands.