Handedness

Have any of you attempted to make the switch from your dominant hand? I've used my right hand predominantly for my entire life, but just yesterday, I swapped my mouse over to the left, and I swear, there's been the slightest alteration in my spatial awareness. It almost seems as though my visual field has been reoriented--the details of which I don't yet want to reveal as this might all be illusory.

What I'd like to know, is whether or not any of you have increased the fine muscle control of your weaker hand, the point at which you noticed a marked proficiency increase and the techniques that you employed.

Fuck dominance.

I masturbate with much more vigour when i use my left hand.

i am ambidextrous

i am left handed for writing and a few other things, but i also use my right hand for things like cutting with scissors and using dangerous machinery.

my left hand is completely brain damaged. i once tried to write my signature super quick and it ended up looking like a 6 year old's drawing of a tree

I've always held forks with my right hand & knives with my left, which apparently is the opposite of how most people do it. I don't know why.

when i wore a watch i always had it on the wrong side

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:53 PM, troon said:

i am ambidextrous

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:56 PM, Hoodie said:

i am left handed for writing and a few other things, but i also use my right hand for things like cutting with scissors and using dangerous machinery.

Was this developed?

  On 10/23/2010 at 10:16 PM, Lascaille said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:53 PM, troon said:

i am ambidextrous

 

 

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:56 PM, Hoodie said:

i am left handed for writing and a few other things, but i also use my right hand for things like cutting with scissors and using dangerous machinery.

 

Was this developed?

for me, it wasn't intentional, if that's what you mean. i just find it easier to use my right hand for some things and my left hand for others.

I use my right hand to strum guitar strings and my left to play guitar chords.

Woah.

when i was a toddler i had seizures. after one seizure my handedness turned from right to left.

i don't think the handedness matters. it's cool being a lefty though cause it's like being in a ltm club, exclusive...

edit: just sighted the extra element of synchronicity in this post - anyone else see it?

my father was left-handed until he attended a christian brothers secondary school, where they tried to beat it out of him. now he's ambidextrous.

  On 10/24/2010 at 1:16 AM, kaini said:

my father was left-handed until he attended a christian brothers secondary school, where they tried to beat it out of him. now he's ambidextrous.

crazy..

  On 10/24/2010 at 1:11 AM, troon said:

 

edit: just sighted the extra element of synchronicity in this post - anyone else see it?

This looks a bit heavy handed.

LOL!

playing the piano has made me reasonably ambi-dextrous

  On 10/24/2010 at 1:11 AM, troon said:

 

edit: just sighted the extra element of synchronicity in this post - anyone else see it?

reality check nightmare lol

  On 10/23/2010 at 10:19 PM, Hoodie said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 10:16 PM, Lascaille said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:53 PM, troon said:

i am ambidextrous

 

 

  On 10/23/2010 at 6:56 PM, Hoodie said:

i am left handed for writing and a few other things, but i also use my right hand for things like cutting with scissors and using dangerous machinery.

 

Was this developed?

 

for me, it wasn't intentional, if that's what you mean. i just find it easier to use my right hand for some things and my left hand for others.

Same here. Also, what's really weird is that when I play golf or baseball I play the way right handed people would whereas if I play tennis, badminton, rounders or anything else where I only have to use one hand, then I use my left hand. It's also pretty damn practical whenever I need to use a screwdriver or hammer.

I have a reeallyyy mild case of cerebral palsy which basically makes it so I can't use my left hand for a whole lot (the fingers, except my index finger and thumb, all move as one unit unless i force them into position with my other hand). I use it to steady things i'm holding on to (paper, pizza pans, meat, desks, corpses etc) and to drive whilst smoking, but otherwise my right hand does everything-- scissors, writing, basically anything and everything that involves any kind of fine motor control.

I type with my whole right hand, and my index finger on my left. I don't even think about the fact that it isn't normal, so when people see me type like this I get a good laugh out of it.

I can do a few things with both hands and feet.

Except throwing. I through like a sissy with my left. But I normally write with my left and kick with right.

  On 10/24/2010 at 1:16 AM, kaini said:

my father was left-handed until he attended a christian brothers secondary school, where they tried to beat it out of him. now he's ambidextrous.

90% of left-handed Koreans could relate to your father. Except they receive their beatings in public primary schools.

I use my left hand to exercise my brain

  On 10/23/2010 at 9:16 PM, Cryptowen said:

I've always held forks with my right hand & knives with my left, which apparently is the opposite of how most people do it. I don't know why.

Most people do it the way you do, but good etiquette dictates you should do it the other way.

Why? No goddamn clue.

  On 10/26/2010 at 12:06 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 10/24/2010 at 1:16 AM, kaini said:

my father was left-handed until he attended a christian brothers secondary school, where they tried to beat it out of him. now he's ambidextrous.

 

 

90% of left-handed Koreans could relate to your father. Except they receive their beatings in public primary schools.

dude, i think you just partially solved the 'why are koreans good at starcraft?' conundrum.