Are you left-handed, right-handed, or in-between?

[Control-Z]

Let's do a little left-handed or right-handed poll here. Judging by the general level of quirkiness, I'm betting a lot people here are lefties.

I'm a righty with lefty tendencies.

[Who_me?]

Lefty

[Lanzy]

Right handed but have done a lot of training with my left. Especially after having surgery on my right and I could not use it for a while. I can bat right or left, throw pretty good left and can fight either way.

[Uthrecht]

Left-handed. I seem to recall batting right-handed on occasion, but mostly did it left-handed. Only ever threw and caught left-handed, and while I can throw right-handed I'm much worse in my aim. I exclusively write left-handed; I've tried right-handed and can kind of do it, but requires a lot of conscious effort to move the pen in opposite motions, and the letters come out odd.

[FirstAndMain]

Write with right, do mostly everything else with my left, except chop vegetables. That never ends well when I do it lefty.

[HongKongFooey]

I'm right-handed but I can write with my left hand. When I train I force myself to do everything with my left that I can do with the right.

[Muskrat Love]

My parents said I wrote left handed before I went to kindergarden, but my teacher forced us all to learn to write right-handed. Now, I can scrawl something that's somewhat legible with my left hand, but I'm right handed. I was tempted to say I was ambidextrous with right handed tendencies, but really, unless something has to be done with the left hand, I do it with my right.

[Rock]

I'm primarily left-handed, but I bat and golf right-handed.

I play guitar right-handed, but only because when I started taking lessons my instructor suggested it. He said left-handed guitars were harder to find and more expensive (this was 30 years ago). It feels natural now- except I still play air guitar left-handed.

[Moon Dog]

Right handed. Although I always rode a surfboard or skateboard 'goofy foot' for some reason.

Is the option 'Other' there for MC's ex-girlfriend ?

[Control-Z]

I write with my right hand, but throw a frisbee with my left for some reason. I can do many things except write with my left hand. In elementary school I broke my right arm and had to write with my left hand for a month or two, it was really messy at first but I got pretty decent at it by the end.

[mlerose]

I am really, really right-handed. About the only things I do with my left hand are type and knit (and that's because I can't do those things one-handed).

[ASAKMOTSD]

Ambidextrous, depending on the situation. I shoot better left handed because I am left eye dominant. I wrote right-handed.

[Fromage A Trois]

Originally Posted by mlerose

I am really, really right-handed. About the only things I do with my left hand are type and knit (and that's because I can't do those things one-handed).

Same here, except I don't knit. I can juggle, though.

[Katriona]

I mouse right-handed, because when I was first learning to use a mouse, it didn't occur to me to ask about moving it to the other side.

I throw right-handed, because we couldn't find a right-hand glove when I was playing softball.


Other than that, I do pretty much everything else left-handed.

[Zeener Diode]

I write and throw left-handed, but I bat/swing a club and cut/carve with my right. I can eat using either hand (I can wield a pair of chopsticks in both hands simultaneously). I can write with my right but it comes naturally to my left. I can shoot a gun with either hand, but I prefer sighting using my left eye. I lead to my left (dance partners beware!). I guess that makes me ambidextrous, but the true definition is someone who can efficiently accomplish the same tasks using both sides, so I'll take being an other.

[Hi, Neighbor!]

I'm right-handed, but I'm teaching myself how to bat left-handed.

[Muskrat Love]

Originally Posted by Bumbershoot

I'm primarily left-handed, but I bat and golf right-handed.

I play guitar right-handed, but only because when I started taking lessons my instructor suggested it. He said left-handed guitars were harder to find and more expensive (this was 30 years ago). It feels natural now- except I still play air guitar left-handed.

Playing guitar wrong-handed is often recommended, not just because of the higher price on left-handed guitars, but also because you can use your dominant hand for fretting notes, which can be more complicated in modern guitar than picking.

I think the reason that we play guitar like we do is because in classical guitar music the right hand is usually a lot more busy - the left hand is usually just holding a chord in place while the right hand fingerpicks and/or does fancy strumming patterns. In most modern rock guitar, the right hand just holds a pick while the left hand moves all over the place.

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Badtz Maru

Playing guitar wrong-handed is often recommended, not just because of the higher price on left-handed guitars, but also because you can use your dominant hand for fretting notes, which can be more complicated in modern guitar than picking.

I think the reason that we play guitar like we do is because in classical guitar music the right hand is usually a lot more busy - the left hand is usually just holding a chord in place while the right hand fingerpicks and/or does fancy strumming patterns. In most modern rock guitar, the right hand just holds a pick while the left hand moves all over the place.

This has been my experience; any attempts to learn finger-picking style have not been very successful (I use a pick to bass as well).

[Carolia]

I am totally right-handed but, according to my childhood gymnastics instructor, I am left-footed. I think that meant that when she was teaching us things like cartwheels, I naturally led with my left foot, and did the left-handed styles much more naturally. It doesn't come up often outside of that, though.

[mlerose]

Originally Posted by Carolia

I am totally right-handed but, according to my childhood gymnastics instructor, I am left-footed. I think that meant that when she was teaching us things like cartwheels, I naturally led with my left foot, and did the left-handed styles much more naturally. It doesn't come up often outside of that, though.

I'm left-footed too! I had to struggle to do a right-footed cartwheel and I snowboard goofyfooted.

[Clowns to the left of me]

Right handed, although at work I mouse left-handed (which tends to confuse my left-handed co-worker if she has to use my computer).

[Gumby]

I'm mostly a righty, although I can do many things either hand.

Back in high school several years ago, I was the only tennis player who could switch hands and essentially have no backhand.

[FrozenBananas]

I write with my left hand only, but most other things I can alternate. I use a lefty glove for baseball because that's what was handed down to me. I bat either way to screw with the pitchers. I play violin right handed because that's what was handed down to me. If I'm using a knife with no fork, it's in my left hand. If I'm using a fork, the knife is in my right. I use a computer mouse and scissors right handed because that's how I was taught. I crochet lefty. So I consider myself an ambi-lefty.

[Lungfish]

Lefty for all things except I can use a mouse with either hands. At home the mouse sits to the left of the keyboard while at work it is to the right.

[Seeker of Truth & Beauty]

Righty here.

Ambidextrous people piss me right off. My left hand is totally useless, save for one or two specific tasks.

[Elyanna]

Pretty much completely right-handed.

[einmon]

I'm right-handed, too, and my left hand is near useless (other than typing). But I also am left-footed. I snowboard regular, though, I thought that if your left foot was the dominant one, that should go in front.

[3acres]

I was born left-handed, but was 'corrected' into right-handedness by my parents (as was the style at that time).