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Which hand do you write with?

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Left (9 votes) 36%
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Circle_Something
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I wondered, after creating another thread, just how many left handers to right handers there were on here. I also wonder if anyone has encountered problems due to their handedness? I know my handwriting, for example, has been compared to hieroglyphs, which renders it useless unless you're an Egyptologist.Being a southpaw suck sometimes!
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As of right now, we lefties are in the majority, Andrew. Of course, only two people, you and me, have voted as I write this.



I know some right handed people whose handwriting could also be compared to hieroglyphs, so being a south paw isn't always the cause of that.

The problems I have encountered have mostly been when using, or trying to make use of, machinery or tools that are very much meant for right handed people. For instance, scissors that have molded plastic handles are impossible to use with the left hand, if the handles are formed to accomodate the right. Old fashioned butter knives are another problem, when I encounter them. You know, the ones that look like this:






On the other hand - - I have far more dexterity when using my right hand than most righties have when they need to use their left. When I work in the kitchen preparing food, I use a knife in my left hand to pare, chop, peel etc, but at the table, I keep my fork in my left hand, knife in my right and don't switch the knife to my left hand to cut my food. I do have to use my left if I am spreading something like butter or jam on a slice of bread, which is why those darned butter knives are a nuisance. I have to use a spoon in my left hand though, or I would not manage to get the soup to my mouth, I think. It would be slopped all over me I suspect.

When taking piano lessons as a child my teacher was pleased because I could learn both the right and left hand parts of the partitions with equal ease. It didn't make me a talented or decent piano player though.

When I browse through a book or magazine, I go from the back to the front of it, holding the item in my right hand and scrolling the pages using my left thumb. It has to be from back to front that way.

At one time I had an office job and part of my duties involved using an adding machine. Those are designed with the number pad and input buttons to be used with the right hand, very difficult to do with the left. I learned to use the adding machine with my right hand and while using it that way could check things off the list the numbers were on by using my left hand. I didn't even realise I was doing it until my supervisor told me he loved watching me work because it looked so efficient to him that I was writing with one hand while inputting figures with the other.

Right handed people are just severely limited in what they can do, I'm afraid. They're pretty nice just the same, though, and I don't really think they are too dangerous, do you?
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On the other hand - - I have far more dexterity when using my right hand than most righties have when they need to use their left. When I work in the kitchen preparing food, I use a knife in my left hand to pare, chop, peel etc, but at the table, I keep my fork in my left hand, knife in my right and don't switch the knife to my left hand to cut my food. I do have use my left if I am spreading something like butter or jam on a slice of bread, which is why those darned butter knives are a nuisance. I have to use a spoon in my left hand though, or I would not manage to get the soup to my mouth, I think. It would be slopped all over me I suspect.


Right handed people are just severely limited in what they can do, I'm afraid. They're pretty nice just the same, though, and I don't really think they are too dangerous, do you?


That's pretty amazing, I'm the same with the cutlery as well. I also "play" guitar and I hold it the way a right-hander would. Actually I have a very odd fingering technique on guitar and bass: I tend to only use one finger for strumming or plucking, whether that has anything to do with my handedness, I dunno, but it's weird. I just noticed something there. Righties is flagged as a spelling mistake, but lefties isn't. How cool is that? Actually I just realised something else: most things that you've described are very familiar to me, especially the fascist scissors and the office job, too. I worked in the service centre of a bank and had to type numbers and write stuff down at the same time. I was able to do the same as you and your supervisor was correct: it does look more efficient.
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That's pretty amazing, I'm the same with the cutlery as well. I also "play" guitar and I hold it the way a right-hander would. Actually I have a very odd fingering technique on guitar and bass: I tend to only use one finger for strumming or plucking, whether that has anything to do with my handedness, I dunno, but it's weird. I just noticed something there. Righties is flagged as a spelling mistake, but lefties isn't. How cool is that? Actually I just realised something else: most things that you've described are very familiar to me, especially the fascist scissors and the office job, too. I worked in the service centre of a bank and had to type numbers and write stuff down at the same time. I was able to do the same as you and your supervisor was correct: it does look more efficient.


That is totally cool we get our own word!

Fascist scissors, oh yeah, well put.

I worked in the service centre of a bank and had to type numbers and write stuff down at the same time. I was able to do the same as you and your supervisor was correct: it does look more efficient.


Yes, but did it get either of us a pay raise? I certainly did not, did you? Exploited by one and all we are, Andrew!
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but at the table, I keep my fork in my left hand, knife in my right and don't switch the knife to my left hand to cut my food.


I do that as well...but, I'm right handed...

Btw...nice to hear we're not too dangerous...I was really worried there all these years...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...

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I'm a rightie that has issues with using my left hand.
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I am ambidextrous but dominant Lefty. I was an original lefty but my wrist was broken when I was 10 and I taught myself to do stuff righty wise so that I could stay in school and still do the stuff I like. I continued to use my right as often as I could and now I do what with whichever hand I grab with.
I write mostly lefty and shoot mostly lefty though...

My daddy had a coffee cup made for several years ago that reads on it...

Hire left handed people just to watch them write! and on the other side it says...
Left handed people are the only ones in their right mind!

Tee hee!!
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I am righty, my wife is lefty.
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I am a strange person - I write with my right hand, but I eat and play sports with my left. I can sorta kinda write with my left hand and I can sorta kinda eat and play sports with my right.
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I am a strange person - I write with my right hand, but I eat and play sports with my left. I can sorta kinda write with my left hand and I can sorta kinda eat and play sports with my right.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
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I am a strange person - I write with my right hand, but I eat and play sports with my left. I can sorta kinda write with my left hand and I can sorta kinda eat and play sports with my right.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
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leftie till school. now I'm rightie


I am the same. My mother was surprised when I came home from school and demonstrated my new writing ability using my right hand, since I had always used my left hand to color and scribble.

A left-handed friend of mine says I think like a left-handed person. Although I'm not entirely sure what that means, I'll take it as a compliment since most of the left-handed people I know think pretty well.

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I'm right handed, always have been.
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I am predominately right handed. My Dad was left handed and I can do some stuff comfortably either way.
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i am predominately right, but i can write with both
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Writing is the ONLY thing I do left handed.
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Writing is the ONLY thing I do left handed.




Edit: Another double post???
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i am predominately right, but i can write with both


...And "just for fun"... my wife has taught herself to write left handed. She does crossword puzzles and such. My writing is a mish-mash of cursive and printing and is absolutely horrible. Sometimes I can't even read it myself.
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i'm a right handed person, but for gaming on xbox, i am lefthanded
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I'm right handed.. but I live left.. the steerng wheel in my car is on the left.. I drive in the far left lane.. I sleep on left side of bed.. my wallet is in my left rear pocket.. I hold the phone in my left hand.. etc...
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I'm a righty when it comes to writing, but fairly ambidextrous over all. I think a lot of us write right-handed because that's what we were told to do.
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I'm right handed.. but I live left.. the steerng wheel in my car is on the left.. I drive in the far left lane.. I sleep on left side of bed.. my wallet is in my left rear pocket.. I hold the phone in my left hand.. etc...



What Dreamcatcher is saying is that he;s not gonna be 'left' out of anything!

Carry on, please...

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I am right handed....
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My handwriting isn't as nice with my left hand as it is with my right, but I am ambidextrous in some form of the word, lol. I write with my right hand unless I'm not writing for class and then I attempt to write with my left and give it more practice "just in case". Um... in, say, softball or baseball or whatever, I hold the bat the left-handed way... and, though I suppress it unconsciously and step forward instead with my right, if I didn't I'd be stepping with my left foot first, then my right, after stopping and standing in one place for some time (say, a crosswalk at a light or whatever)... I don't know if that means anything though ^^; I guess I could probably just say my right hand is the dominant one though.

It's pretty funny the looks I got when I went up to bat in gym class and batted left-handed though, lol
Then my PE teacher told me to do it the other way, and I struck out.
She learned to just let me do it however, and I'd actually eventually hit the ball.

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