Lefty or righty?
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I'm ambidextrous :cool: Having said that, I do have preferences - writing is predominantly with the right hand, and mouse usage is almost exclusively with the left. The former is due to dominance, and the latter due to RSI.
Cheers, Vikram.
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I write with my left hand, use scissors generally (but not always) with my right hand (probably has to do with the fact that when I was learning to use scissors as a kid, the scissors often worked better when used right-handed), mouse with either hand, text with both hands but more often my right, throw/catch/etc mainly with my left (I think), and do various odd tasks more often with my left.
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leckey wrote:
except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way.
Is that because of a lack of suitable left-handed alternatives? Righty here by the way...
I have no blog...
Yes, I had the 'lefty' scissors as a kid but when I grew out of them I could not find 'lefty' adult sized scissors. So I learned how to cut a second-time.
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous... hehe... I'm a righty, but there are a heap of lefties in my family (apart from myself and my siblings - skipped our generation in my family much to my lefty mother's disgust). One of my kids is a righty in everything, the other is a lefty writing/drawing, but a righty using scissors, so we'll have to see how he progresses...
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I write with my left hand, use scissors generally (but not always) with my right hand (probably has to do with the fact that when I was learning to use scissors as a kid, the scissors often worked better when used right-handed), mouse with either hand, text with both hands but more often my right, throw/catch/etc mainly with my left (I think), and do various odd tasks more often with my left.
Sounds like cross dominance[^]
Cheers, Vikram.
"If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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Right all the way!! :D
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I am a lefty, but I mouse right. I play guitar left, to my chagrin ( SO hard to get a good guitar ).
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I'm a lefty. I use my left hand to write, target practice, swing a bolo, solder and carry stuff. I use my right hand to use a mouse/touchpad and throw a javelin.
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Yes, I had the 'lefty' scissors as a kid but when I grew out of them I could not find 'lefty' adult sized scissors. So I learned how to cut a second-time.
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I bought several left-handed items from this[^] London (the original) shop back in 1980. I had read about the shop in a newspaper article in 1968 and made it a point to go to the shop when I was in London on the way back from a Middle East business trip. I also visited tis[^] store in the 1970s. They had a small section of left-handed items - I think it was because at least one of the Jay Ward characters was left-handed.
Steve
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I use whatever finger is closest to the key I need to hit - sometimes that means my left hand is dancing all over the keyboard while my right hand is navigating with the mouse.
Steve
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I'm right handed. However I have a tendency to use gardening tools and shovels like lefties do. And also when I play pool or snooker and I have a shot on my left side I prefer to use my L hand instead of the rest.
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I am a lefty, but I mouse right. I play guitar left, to my chagrin ( SO hard to get a good guitar ).
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
That's a poor excuse, Hendrix never seemed to have a problem! Russell
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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I'm a rightie unless I'm beating the daylights out of someone. Then, I have to switch the bat to my left hand because my right arm eventually gets tired.
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I am curious based on another thread, whom is a lefty and who is a right? I am a lefty, except for using scissors, batting, and golfing. I also use the computer mouse in the traditional righty way. If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
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leckey wrote:
If you are a lefty, are there any activities you do righty?
No, but I can do anything except use scissors and write semi-legibly at a usable speed with my right hand if I need to. Generally not as well, but at a usable level.
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Yes, I had the 'lefty' scissors as a kid but when I grew out of them I could not find 'lefty' adult sized scissors. So I learned how to cut a second-time.
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it probably doesn't matter now, but except for lacking the stabbing point adult sized safety scissors work just as well as the right handed only ones, and every pair I've used has been ambidextrous.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull