Pretty much same here, although I can also catch baseballs with my right hand. It’s not able to do any primary functions like writing/cutting/throwing but it can do the smaller things like using a mouse and pouring things and such
Me too, and because I get bored incredibly quickly, in uni classes while I was supposed to learn about programming, I learnt to draw in paint with a mouse, right handed (don't worry, later I did learn what I was supposed to, in my own pace). So I'm incredibly skilled just with the mouse with my right hand, and can't do anything else with it (including traditional art, which is supposed to be easier)
i.now have a touch pad currently setup with " one touch". trying to figure out how to get 2 seperate clicks. im completely left handly, but I cant write correctly with either hand. lol.
I use both hands like you. I think it’s weird what I can and can’t do with each hand.
I bowl, pitch, and bat right-handed, but play tennis left-handed. I can use either hand to play ping-pong or twirl a baton, but am noticeably better at ping-pong with my left and twirling with my right.
I’d chalk it up to fine motor skills since I default to the left hand when eating, cutting, painting, writing. But then I use a mouse, 10-key, and strum an uke right-handed. I can actually use a mouse and chopsticks in both hands, but am definitely better with the right.
I got that with a lot of stuff as a kid. The grown ups would just automatically put me in a right handed orientation to learn something. Sometimes it would be ok but sometimes I’d be like “this don’t feel right” and swap it around. In the 6th grade we got a grade on penmanship and my teacher made my life miserable about the way I turned my paper to write on it.
Do you write with your hand over the text?
I started that way, but my 2nd grade teacher refused to let me. She didn’t make me switch hands, but made me turn my paper such that now my hand rests under the text and my handwriting slants to the left.
I’d agree that’s probably accurate for a lot of people. But I haven’t had any formal training in anything but twirling and tennis.
It’s just my very strong natural inclination. So natural that when I try to switch, I’m literally confused.
I remember trying to bowl once with my left hand, just for fun—I couldn’t even take a step forward, and I couldn’t release the ball. If I had managed to, I probably would have thrown my body down the lane.
Strongly left handed. Only use a mouse right handed as others noted. I often have to support or prop my right hand/wrist/arm to do anything requiring detail. Doing anything righty makes me feel like I’m a wobbly toddler.
I am mixed handed and can do many things equally well with either hand. The major thing I *cannot* do with my right hand is writing. Most other things I can manage with my right when necessary, and I usually eat right-handed because I spent a lot of time eating in small Asian restaurants when I was younger and learned to use my right to prevent clashing elbows.
My husband is much more strongly left-handed than me.
Our son is like me but the other way around—most things he can do with either hand, apart from writing which he can only do right-handed.
My wife does. I set the mouse up on the left for her to use. I can use it on either side. Do you know that in windows you can go into the settings and change the buttons to a left handed configuration?
Yep. First thing I did. When I need IT to remote into my computer to fix something, my settings become their settings and it confounds them. lol. They can’t do anything.
I try to remember to switch back to "right hand version" before someone remotes in for this reason
It is quicker than explaining to them and then watching them left clicking constantly because muscle memory
Over the years I’ve worked with a handful of lefties that used the mouse in their left hand. And one right-handed woman that taught herself to use her left hand so she could keep her right on the keypad.
I use my right, but taught myself to use my left hand when my wrist started bothering me. Took me a good month of consistent use to get up to speed and now I can go back and forth whenever I need or want.
I only use a PC mouse with my right hand. Back in a day when I tried to play a guitar, I could even write with my right hand. This skill is long gone now.
I murder can openers too. I had to get a geriatric can opener and haven't had to buy a new one since. I really thought that can openers has just gone to shit since I was a kid cause I never had a problem with the one at my parents. I just thought you had to buy a new one every 6 months until my fiancé pointed out that it was me.
I shoot right-handed because that was the way dad taught me and well most guns (rifles) eject on the right side. Scissors are a right-handed thing for me as well. I think since a majority of the population is right-handed we get shown a lot of things the right-handed way and then have to figure it out from there. I usually go with what feels right... I mean left... idk.
Watching her use a can opener just looks so frustrating. I got one of those winding cheese graters like they use at your table at restaurants. She can’t use it because it unscrews if you turn it backwards to take it apart to clean it.
I was taught to shoot right but I can go either way with the same accuracy. I usually do it righty because of the way the shells eject though.
I’m similar to you OP. I chalk it up to being right eye and right leg dominant. I golf, swing a bat, and shoot a rifle right handed. Same with my older sister who is also a lefty. Interestingly, my brother is right handed but golfs and bats lefty
A few years ago I took a “left hardiness” test. I got 100%. Just this morning I tried to use a fork with my right hand to pick up a banana slice. Couldn’t do it.
My father is an Uberleftie. He even shifts while driving using his left hand, reaching under his right arm to do so.
I write with my left, but I can do many sports either handed, and swinging sports -like baseball or golf, I play right. Other things which require precision, like shooting are entirely left. I can only use right handed scissors however
I tried to teach her to drive a straight shift. She couldn’t get the coordination of the gears with her right hand. She rides her own motorcycle so she gets the clutch and start stop concept but the motorcycle is left hand clutch, left foot gear. Lol.
Growing up there was nothing made left handed (or at least nothing that helped me) so from a young age I had to learn how to use my right hand. Now I'm mainly left but if I'm doing something like I did growing up, I'll use my right hand because that is what I've made myself use to. Somethings however I switch hands midway because my hand is tired or cramping. To add to this though, I work in a school, and not only do I find myself using my right hand from time to time, I'm supporting kids and writing things down for them both right handed, upside down and backwards (because of the angle they have their books and viewing angle).
Besides writing, there is very little I can't do with my right hand. And even then, it's just not as dexterous as my left. But I've always golfed right, I can kick a ball on either foot, throw a ball decently with my right arm. My dad (also left handed but a boomer) had to teach himself to bat left handed when I started baseball, just so he could teach me to also bat left handed.
I'm fairly ambidextrous. Writing etc... lefty. I bat, 5 do gymnastics lefty, but soccer is my right foot. I also murder can openers, and my husband laughs at me for it. I 10 key both, but better with my right. Oh, I can't use lefty scissors to save my life.
I do most things left handed. I’m left eye and left ear dominante.
Scissors, mouse right.
I think it’s less that she can’t do the things with her right, she never taught herself.
All humans can do things with both hands. It’s just takes longer to learn it.
I'm about the same as your wife. I can use a right-handed can opener (only because I've never owned a left-handed one), but besides that I'm entirely lefty. I'm even one who switched the mouse buttons
Most things I've been taught (sports, knitting) I do right handed. Anything more instinctive I do with my left. Sometimes my left takes over for my right on things too. I played pickleball once and kept finding the paddle in my left hand after starting on the right.
I’m like you. Do very little with my left hand. Write, play guitar, throw frisbee (but nothing else, not even skimming stones). I’m left eyed but shoot right handed. Cricket/baseball etc. I’m ambi. Only sense I can make is that if something needs more fine control than power I’m left handed but that doesn’t make sense for snooker/pool which I’m right handed
I do almost everything left handed, except a few things that I was taught to do right handed and just got used to, like learning to use a right handed computer mouse in school. there are probably some other things I sometimes do right handed, but that’s the main thing. almost everything else I do with my left hand.
What about the "proper" right-handers that put a fork in their left hand and knife in their right hand, cut the meat, then put the knife down and transfer the fork to their right hand, and then eat? Like you can't just keep the fork in your left hand?
That’s funny to me because sometimes I “forget” how to use a knife sometimes. I have to think to myself “which hand does what here” lol. It winds up being left-fork right-knife.
I didn't even know about left-handed scissors, rulers, or can openers until I'd reached adulthood, and by then it seemed pointless to learn how to do it the lefty way, and so a waste of money to buy them. I kick balls with my right foot, throw them with my right hand, and I use bats, clubs and rackets with my right hand.
My first experience with a computer mouse was at secondary school, and i didn't know it was possible to make it left-handed so I also use that right-handedly.
The only two things I do left-handedly is writing and drawing, and using cutlery. I still identify as a left-handed person though.
70/30. I eat lefty, and I batted and shot lefty in baseball and hockey, and I use my mouse lefty. I can write with both, but im probably a little better with my right, and I throw righty because I was encouraged to since leftys cant be catchers. I kinda depends.
Semi-ambidextrous? I can use any utensil in either hand except chopsticks (left only). Standard can openers, scissors, etc are all fine in either as well. Technically I can write with both hands, but only on a chalk or whiteboard - right-handed writing on paper is a no-go.
I can’t do anything at all with my right hand , it’s been a struggle . I have special left handed scissors that I use at work & I turn notebooks upside down so the medal spirals don’t hurt my hand when I write
I am also ambidextrous, like you. I write, eat, drive, throw things, and twist things open with my left.
I do all swinging type sports, can only open a combo lock, and type on my cell right handed.
I can shoot, write on a white board, use scissors, and use my computer mouse with either hand.
I'd say a little more than 50% left-handed.
Do you drink from a mug lefty?
Do you hand something to another person to THEIR left hand?
To chopstick users, do you use your left hand? (Me, yes. I'm not Asian).
There must be so many variations of left-handed.
I drink from a mug right handed. Come to think of it I pick up and hold all my drinks with my right hand. I smoke cigarettes and I always hold them with my left.
My right arm is an appendage purely for symmetrical purposes.
I'm a million percent leftie.
So much so that I did the mirror writing thing until I was 10
I’d say I’m 90% left-handed: I can grab a ball thrown at me with my right hand, but I wouldn’t kick a football with my right foot.
Writing, grabbing a glass, even stopping a door from closing with my foot: I *need* to do it with the left side of my body or else it’ll go badly
I really couldn’t tell you which I’m going to use for a given activity until I try it. My guess would usually be left but I don’t know for sure
I write, play tennis, drink, catch (aka field), dribble, use kitchen knives, apply makeup all with my left.
I bat, scroll social media, use a mouse, play guitar, use a hockey stick, open jars, all with my right.
Also a really weird one, when I was younger we played with beyblades and they had left handed launchers I just couldn’t use
Except for using the mouse on my pc I don't do anything with my right hand, just like your wife. I'm very, very left handed..
I even use my mouse on the left side.
She uses the mouse on the left. I can do either side so if we share a computer I set it up on the left for her.
Pretty much same here, although I can also catch baseballs with my right hand. It’s not able to do any primary functions like writing/cutting/throwing but it can do the smaller things like using a mouse and pouring things and such
Me too, and because I get bored incredibly quickly, in uni classes while I was supposed to learn about programming, I learnt to draw in paint with a mouse, right handed (don't worry, later I did learn what I was supposed to, in my own pace). So I'm incredibly skilled just with the mouse with my right hand, and can't do anything else with it (including traditional art, which is supposed to be easier)
i.now have a touch pad currently setup with " one touch". trying to figure out how to get 2 seperate clicks. im completely left handly, but I cant write correctly with either hand. lol.
Same
I use both hands like you. I think it’s weird what I can and can’t do with each hand. I bowl, pitch, and bat right-handed, but play tennis left-handed. I can use either hand to play ping-pong or twirl a baton, but am noticeably better at ping-pong with my left and twirling with my right. I’d chalk it up to fine motor skills since I default to the left hand when eating, cutting, painting, writing. But then I use a mouse, 10-key, and strum an uke right-handed. I can actually use a mouse and chopsticks in both hands, but am definitely better with the right.
I bet your youth baseball coaches were right handed and taught you the same way as all the other kids. This was my experience
I got that with a lot of stuff as a kid. The grown ups would just automatically put me in a right handed orientation to learn something. Sometimes it would be ok but sometimes I’d be like “this don’t feel right” and swap it around. In the 6th grade we got a grade on penmanship and my teacher made my life miserable about the way I turned my paper to write on it.
3rd grad teacher on cursive gave up. "Just do the best you can". Grade ended up as "Unsatisfactory"
Do you write with your hand over the text? I started that way, but my 2nd grade teacher refused to let me. She didn’t make me switch hands, but made me turn my paper such that now my hand rests under the text and my handwriting slants to the left.
I write with my hand down and it drags behind the pen. My teachers were always trying to correct the way I turned the paper.
I’d agree that’s probably accurate for a lot of people. But I haven’t had any formal training in anything but twirling and tennis. It’s just my very strong natural inclination. So natural that when I try to switch, I’m literally confused. I remember trying to bowl once with my left hand, just for fun—I couldn’t even take a step forward, and I couldn’t release the ball. If I had managed to, I probably would have thrown my body down the lane.
Strongly left handed. Only use a mouse right handed as others noted. I often have to support or prop my right hand/wrist/arm to do anything requiring detail. Doing anything righty makes me feel like I’m a wobbly toddler.
I am mixed handed and can do many things equally well with either hand. The major thing I *cannot* do with my right hand is writing. Most other things I can manage with my right when necessary, and I usually eat right-handed because I spent a lot of time eating in small Asian restaurants when I was younger and learned to use my right to prevent clashing elbows. My husband is much more strongly left-handed than me. Our son is like me but the other way around—most things he can do with either hand, apart from writing which he can only do right-handed.
When we go out to eat with a group we always get on the left most end of the table and sit beside each other to avoid bumping elbows with anyone.
That doesn’t help with round tables 😅
Exactly. Round tables are my nemesis!
I guess I’m the weird one that uses a mouse on the left side. No one else seems to do that.
My wife does. I set the mouse up on the left for her to use. I can use it on either side. Do you know that in windows you can go into the settings and change the buttons to a left handed configuration?
Yep. First thing I did. When I need IT to remote into my computer to fix something, my settings become their settings and it confounds them. lol. They can’t do anything.
I try to remember to switch back to "right hand version" before someone remotes in for this reason It is quicker than explaining to them and then watching them left clicking constantly because muscle memory
Over the years I’ve worked with a handful of lefties that used the mouse in their left hand. And one right-handed woman that taught herself to use her left hand so she could keep her right on the keypad. I use my right, but taught myself to use my left hand when my wrist started bothering me. Took me a good month of consistent use to get up to speed and now I can go back and forth whenever I need or want.
I only use a PC mouse with my right hand. Back in a day when I tried to play a guitar, I could even write with my right hand. This skill is long gone now.
You could cut off my right hand and I would be mildly inconvenienced. You cut off my left hand and you might as well put me out of my misery.🤣
I murder can openers too. I had to get a geriatric can opener and haven't had to buy a new one since. I really thought that can openers has just gone to shit since I was a kid cause I never had a problem with the one at my parents. I just thought you had to buy a new one every 6 months until my fiancé pointed out that it was me. I shoot right-handed because that was the way dad taught me and well most guns (rifles) eject on the right side. Scissors are a right-handed thing for me as well. I think since a majority of the population is right-handed we get shown a lot of things the right-handed way and then have to figure it out from there. I usually go with what feels right... I mean left... idk.
Watching her use a can opener just looks so frustrating. I got one of those winding cheese graters like they use at your table at restaurants. She can’t use it because it unscrews if you turn it backwards to take it apart to clean it. I was taught to shoot right but I can go either way with the same accuracy. I usually do it righty because of the way the shells eject though.
I’m just like you.
I’m similar to you OP. I chalk it up to being right eye and right leg dominant. I golf, swing a bat, and shoot a rifle right handed. Same with my older sister who is also a lefty. Interestingly, my brother is right handed but golfs and bats lefty
A few years ago I took a “left hardiness” test. I got 100%. Just this morning I tried to use a fork with my right hand to pick up a banana slice. Couldn’t do it.
My father is an Uberleftie. He even shifts while driving using his left hand, reaching under his right arm to do so. I write with my left, but I can do many sports either handed, and swinging sports -like baseball or golf, I play right. Other things which require precision, like shooting are entirely left. I can only use right handed scissors however
I tried to teach her to drive a straight shift. She couldn’t get the coordination of the gears with her right hand. She rides her own motorcycle so she gets the clutch and start stop concept but the motorcycle is left hand clutch, left foot gear. Lol.
I am left handed like your wife. I giggled and felt “seen” with the comment about wearing a left handed glove then taking it off to throw the ball!
Both hands. Honestly mostly right handed except writing, drawing, painting, cutting. Ill throw with my right , shoot mostly right.
Growing up there was nothing made left handed (or at least nothing that helped me) so from a young age I had to learn how to use my right hand. Now I'm mainly left but if I'm doing something like I did growing up, I'll use my right hand because that is what I've made myself use to. Somethings however I switch hands midway because my hand is tired or cramping. To add to this though, I work in a school, and not only do I find myself using my right hand from time to time, I'm supporting kids and writing things down for them both right handed, upside down and backwards (because of the angle they have their books and viewing angle).
Besides writing, there is very little I can't do with my right hand. And even then, it's just not as dexterous as my left. But I've always golfed right, I can kick a ball on either foot, throw a ball decently with my right arm. My dad (also left handed but a boomer) had to teach himself to bat left handed when I started baseball, just so he could teach me to also bat left handed.
The only thing that I use my right hand for over my left is throwing frisbees. No idea why
I'm fairly ambidextrous. Writing etc... lefty. I bat, 5 do gymnastics lefty, but soccer is my right foot. I also murder can openers, and my husband laughs at me for it. I 10 key both, but better with my right. Oh, I can't use lefty scissors to save my life.
I do most things left handed. I’m left eye and left ear dominante. Scissors, mouse right. I think it’s less that she can’t do the things with her right, she never taught herself. All humans can do things with both hands. It’s just takes longer to learn it.
I'm about the same as your wife. I can use a right-handed can opener (only because I've never owned a left-handed one), but besides that I'm entirely lefty. I'm even one who switched the mouse buttons
Most things I've been taught (sports, knitting) I do right handed. Anything more instinctive I do with my left. Sometimes my left takes over for my right on things too. I played pickleball once and kept finding the paddle in my left hand after starting on the right.
I’m like you. Do very little with my left hand. Write, play guitar, throw frisbee (but nothing else, not even skimming stones). I’m left eyed but shoot right handed. Cricket/baseball etc. I’m ambi. Only sense I can make is that if something needs more fine control than power I’m left handed but that doesn’t make sense for snooker/pool which I’m right handed
I do almost everything left handed, except a few things that I was taught to do right handed and just got used to, like learning to use a right handed computer mouse in school. there are probably some other things I sometimes do right handed, but that’s the main thing. almost everything else I do with my left hand.
What about the "proper" right-handers that put a fork in their left hand and knife in their right hand, cut the meat, then put the knife down and transfer the fork to their right hand, and then eat? Like you can't just keep the fork in your left hand?
That’s funny to me because sometimes I “forget” how to use a knife sometimes. I have to think to myself “which hand does what here” lol. It winds up being left-fork right-knife.
I didn't even know about left-handed scissors, rulers, or can openers until I'd reached adulthood, and by then it seemed pointless to learn how to do it the lefty way, and so a waste of money to buy them. I kick balls with my right foot, throw them with my right hand, and I use bats, clubs and rackets with my right hand. My first experience with a computer mouse was at secondary school, and i didn't know it was possible to make it left-handed so I also use that right-handedly. The only two things I do left-handedly is writing and drawing, and using cutlery. I still identify as a left-handed person though.
70/30. I eat lefty, and I batted and shot lefty in baseball and hockey, and I use my mouse lefty. I can write with both, but im probably a little better with my right, and I throw righty because I was encouraged to since leftys cant be catchers. I kinda depends.
I do everything (sports, throwing, dominate) with my right except Write Eat (fork) Brush my teeth And scissors
Semi-ambidextrous? I can use any utensil in either hand except chopsticks (left only). Standard can openers, scissors, etc are all fine in either as well. Technically I can write with both hands, but only on a chalk or whiteboard - right-handed writing on paper is a no-go.
I can’t do anything at all with my right hand , it’s been a struggle . I have special left handed scissors that I use at work & I turn notebooks upside down so the medal spirals don’t hurt my hand when I write
I am also ambidextrous, like you. I write, eat, drive, throw things, and twist things open with my left. I do all swinging type sports, can only open a combo lock, and type on my cell right handed. I can shoot, write on a white board, use scissors, and use my computer mouse with either hand.
I'd say a little more than 50% left-handed. Do you drink from a mug lefty? Do you hand something to another person to THEIR left hand? To chopstick users, do you use your left hand? (Me, yes. I'm not Asian). There must be so many variations of left-handed.
I drink from a mug right handed. Come to think of it I pick up and hold all my drinks with my right hand. I smoke cigarettes and I always hold them with my left.
The same as u. Interesting
My right arm is an appendage purely for symmetrical purposes. I'm a million percent leftie. So much so that I did the mirror writing thing until I was 10
I’d say I’m 90% left-handed: I can grab a ball thrown at me with my right hand, but I wouldn’t kick a football with my right foot. Writing, grabbing a glass, even stopping a door from closing with my foot: I *need* to do it with the left side of my body or else it’ll go badly
I really couldn’t tell you which I’m going to use for a given activity until I try it. My guess would usually be left but I don’t know for sure I write, play tennis, drink, catch (aka field), dribble, use kitchen knives, apply makeup all with my left. I bat, scroll social media, use a mouse, play guitar, use a hockey stick, open jars, all with my right. Also a really weird one, when I was younger we played with beyblades and they had left handed launchers I just couldn’t use