What a confusion for some of us..does anyone else have a problem determining if they are left-handed or both?

This is a description of what they say:A person who is left-handed uses his or her left hand more than the right hand. Writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem. A better determination of left-handedness results when the differentiation between an individual's major motor activities versus fine or small muscle motor activities is employed. Thus the applications of one's left-hand for eating, writing and similar fine motor activities would be differentiated from major motor activities such as throwing a ball or swinging a bat, etc. While there are numerous individuals who use their left hand for fine motor activities, there is a much smaller group of people who are "total lefties" i.e. do both fine and major activities with their left hand.:rolleyes:
What about the ones who use the left hand more for the major motor skills?

Oddly enough, I am left handed, but mainly use it for writing and drawing. Most other things I use my right hand, like in sports (baseball, football).

Weird, I do just the opposite!
I write with my right and cut..because in school they made me.
But kicking a ball
Throwing
The splits
Ironing
Playing a guitar (which I dont do)
............I do with my left
Which wrist do you wear your watch on, this one always proves which handed you are..its my little secret

The splits
............I do with my left
Which wrist do you wear your watch on, this one always proves which handed you are..its my little secret

Forgive my ignorance, but how does doing the splits determine whether you are left or right-handed?

I wear my watch on my left wrist, which I have unfortunately hurt at the moment so it is onmy right wrist. Apart from feeling strange, it requires much more attention from me to pull my sleeve back to see the time!

I go down with my left leg in the front not the right...
Maybe I should rename it to lefty not handed, right brained or left tendency

I cannot even wind up a watch on the left wrist!

I cannot even wind up a watch on the left wrist!

There is a shop in London for lefties, selling everyday objects specially designed to be used with the left hand: scissors, can openers etc. I don't know if there is such a thing as a left-handed watch. Guns are made for right handed people, and while it is possible to change the grip, the workings are all based around right handed people using them.

Per Forza, they'd better make left handed guns..
Can you imagine the shells of a right-handed rifle flying out in your face?

Per Forza, they'd better make left handed guns..
Can you imagine the shells of a right-handed rifle flying out in your face?

Happens a lot. I used to do quite a bit of range shooting and you only have to stand next to someone else's gun to be hit by a shell. It's really off-putting when a hot one lands on your hand just as you're about to pull the trigger! :eek:

Something awful happened!
The pull tab on a can broke and I havent used a can opener in years. Funny thing is I fumbled with it in my hands over and over it didnt work....it was me that didnt work, I was trying to put it on so I could turn it with my left hand, you can't. It fits on so you must turn it with your right? How fair is that^?

I eat "left handed", but everything else right handed, which my family found strange. Thanks for the explanation!

The shop I mentioned in an earlier post has a website: http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/shop.html

They deliver to Europe, so jacqueline you can right your world (no pun intended! :D)

Marky,
You favor the right side so it seems you are righty

Was born right handed but I've always tried to be ambidexterous practicing different things and sports with both left and right hands such as baseball batting, boxing and kickboxing. Also am ambidextrous with my feet when kicking a soccer ball and kicking with left and right feet in kickboxing and TKD.

My latest thing is to try and be ambidexterous with my computer mouse.

By switching the side of your mouse-pad you will force yourself to use your non-dominant hand. This, in turn, will stimulate the neural connections between the right and left hemispheres on your brain. Scientific research confirmed that people that use both hands equally have 10% more nerve fibers joining the two sides of the brain.
Mousing "goofy" can also help you stop RSI.

The RSI business is good advice - thanks Villa.

Just tried it myself and knocked my glass of wine into the printer, but as you're into kick-boxing and TKD (same as GBH??) I'm certainly not going to argue................:D

I'm right handed, have 3 kids and 2 of them are left handed.The 3rd is ambidextrous....

We have an interesting time seating people at table during large gatherings as my 2 lefties need to sit at a corner so they don't jab their neighbor.....If the table is round, they are doomed.

[QUOTE=abardue;6401]I'm right handed, have 3 kids and 2 of them are left handed.The 3rd is ambidextrous....

So your ambidextrous kid was born that way? He'll be able to use the mouse pad on either side, be a switch hitter in baseball, throw any kind of ball with both hands and kick the soccer ball with his left or right foot with equal ability.

He did all that when he played sports....btw, How did you know my ambi was a male?

"How did you know my ambi was a male?"[/QUOTE]

Non lo so esattomente. Sono siquico forse. I don't see dead people but I'm trying to.