Right and Left handedness...

slycat

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I was working on the car yesterday and i was on a weird side so i ended up using my
left hand to screw something and thats when i realized i was totally stoogelike...and in the end
had to make the effort to get back on my right.

anyone just as adept right and left hand?...is there even a reason to train your left hand?..vice versa?...
i don't mean in case u lose the right one...i mean i wonder if it makes u stronger...more flexible...?
 

Vette73

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Originally posted by: slycat
I was working on the car yesterday and i was on a weird side so i ended up using my
left hand to screw something and thats when i realized i was totally stoogelike...and in the end
had to make the effort to get back on my right.

anyone just as adept right and left hand?...is there even a reason to train your left hand?..vice versa?...
i don't mean in case u lose the right one...i mean i wonder if it makes u stronger...more flexible...?


I am a mechanic and I use my left hand just as much when working on cars as it is easier sometimes. But I can't write, throw, etc... with it.

 

pinoy

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i'm a lefty but writes using right hand, although i can use my left to write also. my point is, i guess you just have to train yourself.
 

Konigin

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I'm left handed, but I generally can use either hand. I can write with my right hand, but its more comfortable using my left. Its depends on what I'm doing with what hand I use, I eat with my left but I shoot with my right. Never had to train myself, its just all natural, what hand is better adapted to what your doing.
 

flxnimprtmscl

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I'm fairly good with both for the most part (I'm left handed) but there are still some things I can't do. Writing I can do semi-decently but I'm not the best at it. The other is shooting. I can shoot a pistol with my right hand no problem but trying to shoot a rifle right handed is freaking impossible for me. Go figure.
 

Wallydraigle

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I'm a freak. There are some activities that I absolutely have to use one hand or the other for, like writing with my left hand, or throwing with my right hand. For the things that I can only do with one hand it seems pretty random which hand it is. My right hand is much stronger than my left. I bat left-handed. Most things I can do equally well with either hand. I'm weird.
 

Sluggo

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I was thinking of this the other day.

I am right handed for writing, throwing etc.

When at the gym, my left arm is quite a bit stronger and has more stamina when doing curls and shoulders, but my left side is first to fail when doing bench press.

Every now and them there will be some odd mundane task that my left hand seems more adept at than my right. For instance using the brush to clean my fingernails, my right hand is retarded when using it, my left hand rules.

Of course trying to throw or write with my left hand results in catastrophic events.

And for some reason, my left hand types better and makes fewer mistakes.
 

dighn

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Aug 12, 2001
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right handed but my left hand feels stronger and more flexible... i use both hands except when writing/using chopsticks it's right hand. more control
 

cavemanmoron

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i write right handed,i normally eat right handed, i can print readable,but like ugh,lol left handed.
i bat left handed,and throw better,stronger left handed.
i can shoot rifle or pistol,either way,but for rifle am a little more accurate lefty.
i can use a wrench/ratchet either hand.
i can use a computer mouse with either hand,but,usually use my right..


:confused:
 

fatkorean

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most right handed people use just their right side, but left handed people have to learn to do things right handed so they tend to be more abidextrous because of it.
 

Squisher

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I'm one of those righties does everything right-handed, but about fifteen years ago I started working on a job(grinding dies in a press), that required a touch of artistry and that made it a lot easier if you could use either hand. And, I have essentially taught myself do do things left-handed.




BTW- Your access to the dies is usually only from one side and you're required to recreate the shape(of a connecting rod) of all forming tools using nothing but a hand grinder.
 

Chaotic42

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Jun 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I am extremely right handed. My left hand is all but useless.

you just said it was useful.

Look at it this way.

Give 1 point to it's usefulness and -1 to it's uselessness.

All would include:

Very useful: 5
Very useless: -5
Useful:4
Somewhat useful: 3
Somewhat useless: -3
Not really useful: 2
Not really useless: -2
Barely useful: 1
Barely useless: -1
Meh: 0

That's 5-5+4+3-3+2-2+1-1+0

That's a total accumulative usefulness of 4 as opposed to my right hand:

Barely, Not really, Somewhat, useful, and very useful which is 1+2+3+4+5=15.

So the value of usefulness of my hands is infavor of my right 15 to 4.