left or right

[bobtheduck]

i write with my left but throw with my right i hold a spoon in my left but play snooker with my right i play tennis with my left but play darts with my right, am i right or left handed and can someone explain the variations?

[medico]

I am much the same as you, bobtheduck. The answer is that you are probably left handed, but have learnt to do many of these things right-handed. I picked up a hockey stick to play left handedly, but had to learn right handed.I operate right handed cos nobody can teach you the other way, but write left handed (both fine motor skills). Contrary to popular belief, most left handers are also left dominant in the brain, but our wiring is messed up!

[quattro]

I am right handed but left footed when I played football, as I got older I forced myself to use my right foot more when playing football, it was never as strong as my left foot but I noticed it felt easier using my left hand to do things I would play tennis shots left handed and spike with my left hand when playing volleyball.

[Hgrove]

I think you are ambidextrous.

[madham]

I'm a complete left hander, write, eat, play tennis, kick with the left etc, but my son writes and kicks left, but eats, throws and strangely to me, wears his watch on the right!

[bernardo]

Trying to force people to label themselves as definitely right-handed or definitely left-handed is artificial - it's a bit like forcing someone to decide whether they are straight or gay, without accepting that some people are bisexual. If you do different things with different hands, then why do you need a label for it?

[DOB]

Phil Mickelson is actually right-handed but he plays golf (professionally) left-handed. This is because he learned to play golf standing facing his dad (who taught him the game) and mirroring his swing. Just in case you were interested.

[MrsCheeks]

I am right handed at practically everything BUT I play a guitar left handed as it feels more natural to me. xxx

[cinderelli]

I a right-handed but eat left-handed for some reason, it feels natural to me too.

[dadasupreme]

i agree with bernardo.every one is a little ambidextrous. keep in mind that no one is fully right or left handed. Its what your brain was taught to do during the years that make you what you are today. anyone can be fully ambidextrous if the body/brain is used to doing things with both hands. There is also an added bonus, in case you fracture an arm or have a stroke. However, its also a fact that the less dominant hand is stronger in gross movements, and the more dominant is more accurate and precise in every movement.

[c3111068]

i'm left-handed, but can write acceptably right-handed, (not exquisitly, but competently), play guitar left handed, brush teeth, hait left handed, but play gold right-handed, kick a footie right footed!

[linseli]

I haven't got any figures to back this up but read somewhere that us left-handers are more likely to be polyglots who are comfortable learning lots of languages - quick straw poll - any posters got thoughts on this?

[Philtaz]

I'm left handed and remain so when playing squash, tennis and snooker however when playing cricket I bat right handed but bowl left handed. When playing football I'm right footed. If I play golf it's the same as batting, I do so right handed.

[amarillis]

linseli, i am left-handed and I find it quite easy to learn and understand different languages. I hadn't heard of it being related to which hand is dominant but it would be interesting to see if anyone else shares this tendancy.

[Sifter1978]

Ambi dextrous. i reckon with me, i heavily rely on my left hand, my right hand is nigh on useless!! well, apart from the thing im best at! (playing guitar!)

[GeeMoney]

For writing, I am left handed, and its well annoying because when i right it is smudgy. So, i learnt to write properly with my right hand. Now my handwriting is much better and clearer! I do most things right handed, because all the people in my family are right handed and I guess I just copied them in the way that they do things. You are ambidextrous, as was said earlier, but who cares about which hand you use? Typing - you use both hands - you dont get people saying "oo im right handed so i can type words faster than you," do you. (if so, take them to a doctor) Hope it helps !

[turquoise]

I'm left-handed. When i was a baby and my parents found out that i was left-handed, my parents asked the nurse 'so we force her(me) to use her right hand instead', and the nurse said no, and should leave me using my left hand. I find this weird too, cos i play badminton and write with my left hand, but any games to do with a bat i have to use my right hand like rounders. I also play hockey with my right hand too. Apparently i heard how right handed people on average live longer than left handed people, not sure if it's true or not. The languages thing i'm not sure, i was quite good at French so maybe it could be true lol.

[zgma]

To answer linseli's post - I am left-handed, but I don't find languages easy to learn. I find them easy to get the sounds of (I can do the accents well while I'm learning them)... but the vocabulary confounds me. I've spent years of my life trying to learn other languages, and don't have a single one (other than English) to show for it.

[GeeMoney]

I fall under the catagory of learning languages quickly... very quickly. I started learning german in year 11 at school and i got an A* to show for it... thats pretty good. I started french in year 9 and i got an A for it. I find languages easy to learn, but i think it doesnt matter what hand you are, if you enjoy a language you will find it much easier to learn !

[Louis]

I'd give my right hand to be Ambidextorous! :) Sorry! I'm left-handed....that being that my left hand is more dominate in all my actions....but I have to use my right hand for a number of actions as we are living in a right-handed dominated society in which the majority of tools etc are designed for right-handed people!

[klinedancer]

have three lefties in our family, 2 are good at languages art atc, the other ones just a two year old but time will tell.