Handedness.

[simongt]

To see if I'm just odd, or it's something that others experience.
My dominant hand is my right. However, for as long as I can recall, I instinctively use my left hand for certain tasks; playing cards, shelling eggs, eating crisps, picking things up, counting or distributing leaflets, using the keypad on a cellphone and so on. I can do these things right handed, but less efficiently. I've been told whether rightly or wrongly, that this is call 'share handed'.
I suppose it's simply down to how my brain is wired, but does anyone else do this - ?

 

[Oldhippy]

Leftie for everything here.

 

[Drago]

I'm right handed, but left hand dominant. It's not unusual, Dr Tom Jones told me.

Anything requiring dexterity such as handwriting, picking my nose, rolling a fag, it's my right hand. Anything requiring a bit of unrefined heft tends to have my left hand into play. Doc thought it might be because of injury - my right arm is full of mecanno, outer 2 fingers have no feeling and don't quite work properly - as people can change dominance but not normally handedness.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I use the right bell for the butler and left bell for the chauffeur

 

[Ian H]

I use the right bell for the butler and left bell for the chauffeur

Not sure I want to know about your ding-a-ling.

 

[sevenfourate]

My rare talent; is a natural and unwavering ability to both look and feel equally ham-fisted with either hand…..

 

[mistyoptic]

“I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind” Paul Simon

I’m a leftie for most things but I play golf and cricket right handed. Can use a screwdriver with either hand but other tools all left handed. Cut bread left hand and use cutlery same as most other folk

 

[Slick]

I'm right handed, but left hand dominant. It's not unusual, Dr Tom Jones told me.

Anything requiring dexterity such as handwriting, picking my nose, rolling a fag, it's my right hand. Anything requiring a bit of unrefined heft tends to have my left hand into play. Doc thought it might be because of injury - my right arm is full of mecanno, outer 2 fingers have no feeling and don't quite work properly - as people can change dominance but not normally handedness.

I'm much the same. Very much right handed, but as a scaffolder I carried tonnes of material on my left shoulder, much to the annoyance of anyone working with me, as they would need to turn round to stack material if I set it down first. I haven't met anyone the same, but I don't suppose that means much.

 

[Dadam]

Left handed here for most things that need dexterity particularly writing etc. Archery and rifle shooting I do right handed, which may or may not be related to being very slightly right eye dominant. I play badminton etc left handed but I could probably be not much worse playing right handed. I don't play golf and cricket if I can at all avoid it but I'd use the golf bat and cricket racquet right handed. I play pool and snooker left handed.

I use a mouse right handed which I think is an anomaly. It's likely because when I first used a computer that had a mouse, it was on the right. It does have the advantage I can scribble notes with my left hand while scrolling and clicking with my right.

 

[Ian H]

Ambidextrous. I can write mirror script left-handed. Use tools with either hand.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

To see if I'm just odd, or it's something that others experience.

I'm the same.
Have problems with using a tin opener among other stuff
When I used to work as a barista, I had to work from left to right, the rest of the team did the opposite

 

[Drago]

Left handed here for most things that need dexterity particularly writing etc. Archery and rifle shooting I do right handed, which may or may not be related to being very slightly right eye dominant. I play badminton etc left handed but I could probably be not much worse playing right handed. I don't play golf and cricket if I can at all avoid it but I'd use the golf bat and cricket racquet right handed. I play pool and snooker left handed.

I use a mouse right handed which I think is an anomaly. It's likely because when I first used a computer that had a mouse, it was on the right. It does have the advantage I can scribble notes with my left hand while scrolling and clicking with my right.

Just to be an awkward cuss my eyes are cross dominant, so I never feel right with a scope (although I perform OKish) but used to do very well indeed with iron sights on rifle or pistol.

 

[slowmotion]

Completely right-handed but completely left-eyed too. I've no idea what that means.

 

[Drago]

Completely right-handed but completely left-eyed too. I've no idea what that means.

It means you hold Razzle in the left hand while the other is, er, busy.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Naturally left handed but, following a fall onto broken glass on the evening of January 8th 1983, where I severed nerves and tendons in my left hand, I was left using my right hand almost exclusively for the following 30 months or so.

I developed techniques during that time, such as tying shoe laces with only my non-dominant hand, and today, over 40 years later, am still pretty much ambidextrous as a result .