Anyone ambidextrous?

[MilDoc]

Nope. Strictly right handed, except for scratching an itch!

Here's a good question for y'all:

Are you right or left hand dominant?

Are you right or left eye dominant?

Are you right or left foot dominant?

[Tom Slick]

Right

Right

Right

[radhak]

Righty. But there was a time i had to claim to be a lefty :

As a teenager, I was once invited for dinner by a girl, and her dad was one of my teachers. Mid-dinner, he suddenly remarked - "Hmmm, interesting that you write with your right, but eat with your left!" I looked up, realized the fork was in my left hand. What I was very careful not to point out, was that his daughter was sitting to my right, very close to me... !

But I did manage to eat the rest of the dinner (and dessert) with my left hand !

[mpc]

Right handed. Left gets used mostly as right's slave: picking stuff up, the right hand grabs something, dumps it on the left hand/arm, over and over, until the left arm is buried and the right hand carries the one last (and usually light) item.

Trying to throw left handed is the most un-coordinated feeling imaginable. Kicking left footed isn't a whole lot better. However, wrenching, screwdrivers, etc. - hand tools - are perfectly comfortable in either hand. Working on cars, I routinely have to work "by feel" reaching for bolts, dropped socket heads, etc. in corners that I can't see (or my arm blocks my view) and either hand works equally well for such tasks. Scratching/washing my back? My left arm seems way more flexible than the right arm for some reason.

Chopsticks? Tried that ONCE left handed... flipped the sticks in two directions to adjacent tables in the restaurant. Right handed I'm quite adept with chopsticks.

Writing? Some folks claim my "writing" barely qualifies as writing when I do it right handed; left handed would look like somebody trying to write with their toes during an earthquake.

mpc

[JR]

Like George Castanza, I'm righty. Can't go left.

JR

[jking]

Nope. Strictly right handed, except for scratching an itch!

Here's a good question for y'all:

Are you right or left hand dominant?

Are you right or left eye dominant?

Are you right or left foot dominant?

Right, left, right(?) Never thought about "foot dominance".

There are some things I naturally do left handed. I deal cards with my left hand, I hold the phone with my left hand (allows me to write or use the mouse with the right). I can use a fork left-handed (european style). Mostly all small stuff.

I have a friend from college who is left-handed. Writing & bowling is about all he does left handed, though. He's right eye dominant, so, he shoot "right handed" & does alot of other things right handed. His dad, on the other hand is right handed, but, left eye dominant. So, he shoot "left handed".

My dad was naturally left handed, but, his school teachers forced him to learn to be right handed. It was always frustrating when doing building projects with him & he'd just switch the hammer from right to left hands as needed. I tried that once or twice. I missed more than I hit.

[LarryG]

I don't consider myself truly ambidextrous, but I do use both hands for different things. Officially, I'm a lefty in that I write, eat, and shoot pool with my left hand. I hold most tools in my left hand. But I throw right handed, bat right handed, bowl right handed, play guitar right handed, swing a golf club right handed. The basic overall pattern is that I use my left hand for things requiring more control and my right hand for things requiring more strength, but there are exceptions on both sides.

With few exceptions, I use a given hand for a given thing and don't trade off. I can, however, swing a hammer fairly well with my right hand; but I usually only do that when working in a spot where using my left hand is awkward. I can bat left-handed, but not very well; OTOH, I literally cannot figure out how to place my hands on the grip of a left-handed golf club. Most shop tools that are set up with right-handed users in mind -- drill press, CMS, mortising machine -- don't give me any problems. I do sometimes feel slightly backwards when making certain cuts at the table saw, though. I can print block letters with my right hand -- shaky, but legible -- but cannot write cursive. And if I ever threw a ball with my left hand, you'd never find it.

I always eat in the Continental style: my fork stays in my left hand, and I hold the knife with my right, rather than practice the endless silverware-swapping that most people do. (Interestingly, perhaps, I know other lefties who run a knife and fork the same way I do, but no righties.)

In choosing which hand to use for something, I have always just done what felt most natural. The only thing that has ever really stumped me was when I took tennis lessons some years back. My tennis career didn't last long largely because I could never figure out in which hand I should hold the racquet.

I'm right-eye and -foot dominant.

One "handed" issue I've never quite understood is the guitar. It's a two-handed instrument, just like a piano -- and when's the last time you saw a left-handed piano? And yet I know lefties who would be lost trying to play guitar right-handed. Strange.

[Kristofor]

I always eat in the Continental style: my fork stays in my left hand, and I hold the knife with my right, rather than practice the endless silverware-swapping that most people do. (Interestingly, perhaps, I know other lefties who run a knife and fork the same way I do, but no righties.)

I'm with you on this one. I fork right handed, unless something needs to be cut, then I'm all for the efficiency of knife-right, fork-left!

[JeffG78]

I am right handed, but can do most things with either. When I'm using tools, I often switch back and forth to give the other arm a rest. It also comes in handy when working in tight spaces. I often swing a hammer with my left when toe nailing on the left side of a stud or joist. It is quicker to switch hands rather than move over and use the right hand.

I always brush my teeth, drink, eat, and hold the phone with my left hand. I have tried bowling left handed, but I really have to think about which foot to lead with. One thing I can't do well at all is bat left handed. My motion isn't smooth.

[jking]

One "handed" issue I've never quite understood is the guitar. It's a two-handed instrument, just like a piano -- and when's the last time you saw a left-handed piano? And yet I know lefties who would be lost trying to play guitar right-handed. Strange.

I must be ambidextrous, I can play drums with my right hand and my left hand.

[thiggy]

I call myself left-handed because I eat, write and hammer in that manner (although I have become pretty good at nailing right-handed). However, I play baseball and use the mouse right-handed. I shoot either way.

[crokett]

I am right hand, left eye and right foot dominant. There isn't much I can do left handed except maybe hold a fork. Oh, and play the piano.

One of my brothers is a lefty but plays golf righty - better than me. He has his guitar strung so he can strum it lefty. One of my sisters is ambidextrous.

[Wood_workur]

I can write in cursive
backwards (mirror image) with my left but can't write forward with my left. I

I'm right handed, and I can do that mirror image thing. real fun to be writing the same thing twice at the same time in mirror images.