Righty or Lefty?

[Christine_0701]

I'm a righty teaching myself to be ambidextrous

[dorsia]

Watch out, that can make you stutter. ;)

[Christine_0701]

lol. i haven't had any trouble with that yet! just forgetting what I was gonna say...but that's hereditary

[hammerquill]

I'm right handed, but have of necessity taught myself to be partially ambidextrous in certain activities. My father is almost totally ambidextrous.

[bluecrayon]

I am right handed by nature, left handed when I need to be and make a mess of things regardless of which one of these things I'm using...

[Cuilanië]

I'm right handed, but I've sort of taught myself to write with my left hand (I can also write backwards, sideways and upside-down... :) ). I have good dexterity with my left hand.

Funny thing is, in any sport involving a club or a stick of some kind, I'm left-handed. This does not apply to raquets of any kind, however.

I can use spoons and forks with either hand, but not knives.

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by Cuilanië@Oct 26 2003, 09:58 AM
Funny thing is, in any sport involving a club or a stick of some kind, I'm left-handed. This does not apply to raquets of any kind, however.

I can use spoons and forks with either hand, but not knives.
I'm not a leftie with club/stick/raquet s but..when I'm throwing, I'm a leftie...

and I can use all 3 utensils with my left hand...the knife is the hardest, though

[nuKKe]

Lefty. 100%, apparently. Before going to school I was tested for that. However, I played the bass the way righties do and I hold the fork in my left hand...

[janeboston]

i wish i could write with both my left and right hand. left handed people amaze me.

[Christine_0701]

it's very hard to write with my left hand lol. but i'm getting better. ...i've learnt that lefty's and ambidextrous people are more accident prone than righty's (ambidextrous people moreso than lefty's)

[Cuilanië]

That explains it, then. lol

[kittymao]

well,maybe lefties are more accident-prone due to the fact that the WORLD is built for righties. I mean, Doorknobs are EASY for righties to open, but lefties have to reach across their whole body to open the door.

Oh, and what about crank- pencil sharpeners? HOW DOES A LEFTY DO THAT?!

My sister is a lefty, and she always seemed to have difficulty in school- be it either writing or drawing- I guess people couldn't relate to her left-handedness. She's also dyslexic and possesses a slight learning disability- School must have really frustrated her.

[Christine_0701]

that's so true, kitty! and the pencil sharpeners, i never noticed that before...it must've been really hard for my friend kim...she suffers from...don't remember what, but it means that half her body is paralyzed, basically....it's not, but the muscles on the right side of her body are really tight, so she can't really use her right hand for stuff like that.

[sarahkate]

I'm right handed ......but I realized that I naturally do a lot with my left hand. I seem to use my left hand more, it must be stronger or something. To answer the phone I usually use the left....to open jars, bottles, to drive (I usually only drive with one hand on the wheel), to pick things up. I barely use my right hand for anything except writing :P

I write very strange though. Everyone has always says I "write like I'm left handed" I guess I just hold the pen/pencil in a strange way...my hand curves downward when I write and my fingers are all kind of smooshed together in a tight little ball.....I didn't think this was strange until I started school & had many, many people point it out. It might have something to do with the fact that my fingers are double jointed though.

Now that I think about it I do hold utensils in my right hand when I'm eating...but other than that & writing my right hand doesn't seem to be used very much :P

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

left handed people amaze me.

Yeah, me too! I think left-handed only children are the coolest people. Alas, I am a right-handed person with a little brother.

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by sarahkate@Oct 27 2003, 10:38 AM
To answer the phone I usually use the left....to open jars,
me too!! lol.

[cieart]

I'm a lefty and I don't see anything wrong with it :angry:

[bluecrayon]

I'm a righty with lefty tendencies and I don't see anything wrong with that, either!!! :D

[Kelly]

I'm ambidexterous naturally. Completely ambidexterous, I can do everything with both hands. It comes in handy (heh, bad pun not intended) when one hand gets tired.

I using the word "hand" a lot.

I couldn't vote though because I'm retarded and hit "view results" instead of "vote" and didn't hit the stop button fast enough!

[nymphette]

all i do right handed is write.. i dont' write well left handed, but it is passable...

all sports (baseball, golf, hockey, etc) i do left handed... and suck at right handed!!! everything else is either/or... playing pool, daily activities, so on...

[Kelly]

I play all sports left-handed too. It's possible to do it right handed, but I always get a better score if I do it left.

That reminds me of a funny story. When I was a kid and just learning to write I asked my mom which hand I was supposed to write with. I had somehow learned that most people wrote with their right hands (through watching I suppose), but I had always done everything before that left handed. She just told me to use whichever felt more natural. It took me a while to realize that not everybody could use both equally as well, hah.

I remember a teacher in.... first or second grade also getting angry with me one time because she saw me switching hands while writing. She accused me of fooling around and then when she saw that they looked both the same she apologized right away. I think she was scared I would tell my parents!

[stargal1998]

I think all of my mom's kids had left tendencies, but 2 out of 3 of us were forced to switch. I still use my left without thinking about it for things.

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by cieart@Jan 5 2004, 09:08 PM
I'm a lefty and I don't see anything wrong with it :angry:
oh no, most certainly not!!

[Christine_0701]

i just took this test (http://www.testcafe.com/lbrb/?affil=) on test cafe. according to it, i'm left-brain dominant...by 3%

[lemur]

I am a total and complete lefty-left handed and left footed. I had a teacher in grade one who always wanted to switch me until she saw that I was left footed as well, then somehow that convinced her that I was a natural lefty-wasn't trained.
My Grandmas were both left handed but forced to switch. My uncle and both of his kids are left handed too
Watch out, that can make you stutter

Usually what makes people stutter is being left handed but forcibly switched and is more common among boys. I just think that is interesting

i'm left-brain dominant...by 3%

Apparently something like 90% of right handed people and 70% of left handed people are left brain dominant to some degree. I think it'd be safe to say you are ambibrainterous (yes I am a Shakesperean genius-I make up my own words)
That's the only thing I am not left dominant in-I'm as right brained as I am left handed-completely!

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by lemur@Jan 7 2004, 06:07 AM

That's the only thing I am not left dominant in-I'm as right brained as I am left handed-completely!
well, that makes sense, since the right half of your brain controls the left side of your body

[Sonora]

Proud leftie here. Except I iron right handed (go figure).

The only real drawback is the way you smear ink (or paint or whatever) by running your hand over it too soon!

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by Sonora@Jan 8 2004, 11:09 AM
Proud leftie here. Except I iron right handed (go figure).

The only real drawback is the way you smear ink (or paint or whatever) by running your hand over it too soon!
heh...i manage to do that too, and i'm a rightie!! lol

[jonnynobody]

it's very hard to write with my left hand lol. but i'm getting better. ...i've learnt that lefty's and ambidextrous people are more accident prone than righty's (ambidextrous people moreso than lefty's)

That's true. I'm accident-prone and ambidextrous. All the females in my female only use their right hands, all the males, except me and one brother, only use their left hands. Me and my brother (he's older by a year) are both ambidextrous.

I can also write backwards, sideways and upside-down...

I can write backwards with both hands. I don't know about the other two. One day I wrote my entire research paper (5 pages) backwards. My teacher thought it was funny, but gave me demerits anyway.

My test scores:
Your percentage score for the right brain is 37%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 26%.

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by jonnynobody@Jan 8 2004, 04:32 PM
One day I wrote my entire research paper (5 pages) backwards. My teacher thought it was funny, but gave me demerits anyway.

lol!! you should do a paper on Van Gogh and write it backwards :lol:

[auntieemu]

Up until first grade I was left handed. I learned to write with my right hand and the teacher swore to my Mom that I had insisted on learning "like everyone else". My handwriting is dreadful.

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by auntieemu@Jan 11 2004, 02:14 PM
Up until first grade I was left handed. I learned to write with my right hand and the teacher swore to my Mom that I had insisted on learning "like everyone else". My handwriting is dreadful.
i take it that you didn't want to learn right-handedly?

[auntieemu]

I don't remember what I insisted on last week much less what happened 44 years ago.

[freckledcutie]

I guess I'm naturally a righty but I have always written with both hands and my lefty does pretty good...I write backwards and upside down, too...I'm weird like that.

[Gingersmack]

righty

[acoustic]

Lefty forced to be a righty when I was about 4 I think. My teachers thought that it was weird I wrote with my left hand and made me write with my right.

[cryptaesia]

im nearly totally ambidextrous

in grade school i decided i wanted to be able to write with both hands so i began praticing

i still mainly write with my right hand though

[Christine_0701]

eh, I'll bump this one up too

[Helquin]

Righty, still a little peeved that we get to choose between only two hands...

[ebandit]

I did the "rightbrain/leftbrain test mentioned earlier and got these results

Your percentage score for the right brain is 33%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 23%.

You are more right-brained than left-brained.

Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist

I bolded the ones I have done. I was a hairstylist (hate the word beautician) for several years. I have acted professionally in a rep company (and also did a dinner theatre) and I am currently an artist. WOW I know what to do for my brain! I wonder how forest ranger fits in there. Interestingly I have a friend who carves wonderful artful santa figures (http://www.whittlershollow.com) He used to be a forest ranger. Go figure.

Now I am MORE convinced that I shoulda been left handed and was persuaded to change to right...my handwriting is atrocious.

[Christine_0701]

well, there's no time like the present to start writing with your left hand! i'm sure at first it'll be really bad, but I bet it'll greatly improve

[ebandit]

Originally posted by Christine_0701@Nov 14 2004, 05:40 PM
well, there's no time like the present to start writing with your left hand! i'm sure at first it'll be really bad, but I bet it'll greatly improve
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Old dog...new tricks...they say it can't be done!

[Christine_0701]

plus, if you were meant to be a lefty, i bet your writing would end up being neater

[lemur]

No it wouldn't be neater-unless you wrote in hebrew or something. Left-hand writing is usually messier because most languages move from left to right and it is actually harder for a left hander to write that way. Tires your hand out faster.

BTW being left handed does not mean you must be right brain dominant, or vice versa.

[Christine_0701]

well, no, but I know people who were forced to write righty, and later in life went to lefty-ism, and it was neater than their righty writing

and, I know a girl who was a lefty, and could write REALLY neatly when she was 6 (learned from 3) and then got severely burned, and had to learn to write with her right hand, and is now a righty...her writing is messier than when she was 6

[lemur]

I have also heard of people who lost arms, etc and had to learn to write with the other hand, and after years of practice, it looked exactly the same.

What I am saying is that it actually takes more work/is harder to write a left-to-right language with the left hand. When I do calligraphy I have to turn my drawing board sideways to get the proper angle and slant, because it's impossible for me do do it correctly otherwise.

[Christine_0701]

that is true ;)

[Aztek721]

Your percentage score for the right brain is 31%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 15%.

In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed.

Ok, now this is too funny...this DOES explain why everyone at work thinks I'm crazy...and also why I'm happier doing Floral than I was anywhere else in the store...

I'm right-handed writing but I tend to pick things up left handed, and use both hands when making floral arrangements. When my left hand had bad CTS I could not draw at all, and I was severly depressed for months while it healed. (At least to where I could close it again)

[hammerquill]

Left brain 32%
Right brain 28%

Sounds about right to me.

[Lorrell]

I'm predominately right-handed, and when I hurt my left hand and couldn't use it, it frustrated me because I was so handicapped. I had to really think about using my left hand. I couldn't even sign my name or draw, It sort of frightened me, and I started using my left hand more.

[ebandit]

Originally posted by ebandit@Nov 14 2004, 05:37 PM
I did the "rightbrain/leftbrain test mentioned earlier and got these results

Your percentage score for the right brain is 33%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 23%.

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Yes I am replying to my own message. I just realized that 33+23=56 What is going on with the other 48%? I am male..so does that mean I am thinking with my "cheney" ? Just pointless musing.

[Christine_0701]

:lol: well, they do say we don't even use ALL of our brains.....

[Cuilanië]

Your percentage score for the right brain is 34%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 32%.

Hah. ;)

[white_queen_22]

I'm a righty but kicking and skateboarding I'm left-footed which makes me wonder if I SHOULD have been left-handed. My grandmother could write with righty and lefty in perfect unison and in perfect mirror image....it was really cool becuase she could fold the paper, hold it up to the light and the lines would match up exactly.....weird huh?

My sister Heather was our family's first lefty...and she was DECIDEDLY lefty. When she was 9 mths old and learning to eat we would put the spoon in her right hand...never thinking anything about. Every time she would switch hands AND THEN start eating. It only took us grown-ups about a week to catch on. **laughing** She is now 8 and still a decided lefty which dad LOVES when it comes to baseball batting. *grin*

My brother Kyle is two years old now and he STILL hasn't decided. 3 out of 5 times he'll throw/eat/play with his right and 2 out of 5 times with his left. But he ALWAYS bats left handed and usually kicks left footed.

I scored 43% right brain and 30% left brain....fairly balanced which doesn't surprise me becuase of all the music I've done throughout my entire life. Studies have proven that children who study music at a young age, and throughout their developing years tend to utilize both sides of the brain more effeciently.....music is one of the few areas that uses BOTH SIDES simultaniously and actually increases the neural connections between brain hemispheres.

There you go....a free sample of some od the many random bits of useless knowledge I am chock-full of! :-D

[white_queen_22]

Originally posted by lemur@Nov 14 2004, 10:59 PM
I have also heard of people who lost arms, etc and had to learn to write with the other hand, and after years of practice, it looked exactly the same.

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How about when someone becomes paralized and learns to write/draw/paint holding the brush or pencil in their mouths! I'm sure you've seen some of the beautiful work done by Joni Erickson Tada....when I saw my first painting done by her I tried for about four weeks to learn to draw with my mouth. I think I was ten at the time and finally gave up in frustration. Too bad I didn't stick with it...it would be awesome to have learned to do it.