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How Left-Handed Are You ?

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January 26, 2021, 07:51 AM
GRIZZLYBEAR
How Left-Handed Are You ?
Right handed is my norm but when playing baseball, softball, and hockey I play either left handed or right. Over the years I have broken my right arm on a couple occasions so I taught myself to shoot either righty or lefty.
January 26, 2021, 09:01 AM
TMats
I found it interesting that a couple of lefties here swing a bat right handed. My son is right handed, but the first time I put a bat in his hands, I turned him around and had him bat left. He did so from t-ball all the way up through high school. My wife is left handed, but right eye dominant. Our son is left eye dominant. Our daughter right/right, as am I.


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January 26, 2021, 09:29 AM
UTsig
Almost all lefty but shoot, bat and played hockey right handed. I worked at it and can use a mouse right handed.



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January 26, 2021, 10:26 AM
cheesegrits
I'm left-handed with the exception of basketball and shooting. Lots of things I can do with either hand. I'm another left hand, right eye dominant shooter.

Where do you other left-handed folks wear your watch? Left or right wrist? Left for me.
January 26, 2021, 11:22 AM
vinnybass
I'm VERY left-handed, and left eye dominant. Throw, bat, write, shoot, fish, bass & guitar. I also do many things right-handed which are required by their design; calipers, micrometers, etc.



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January 26, 2021, 11:27 AM
sig2392
Left handed right eye dominant.

shoot mostly left handed.

In second grade forced to write with my right hand.

My chicken scratch is barely readable.

I do most things left handed.

tools can be a pain in the ass.

I can use my right hand for most things not athletic.
January 26, 2021, 11:52 AM
Hardway
Eat, write and shoot pool left handed.
Everything else I'm a righty.
January 26, 2021, 12:38 PM
Hobbs
quote:
Originally posted by cheesegrits:
Where do you other left-handed folks wear your watch? Left or right wrist? Left for me.

On my left wrist. Maybe because of wrist size, but also because it's easier to buckle up, I also have to swap the straps around so the buckle is on the other end from the way it normally is and shipped from the factory. I tried wearing a watch on my right wrist and it just felt too weird. Couldn't get used to it.
January 26, 2021, 01:43 PM
nhracecraft
I'm Left eye dominant and have greater dexterity with my left hand, but I'm physically right hand dominant.

I write, eat, brush my teeth, use pliers or a screwdriver, and run a power drill lefty. I shoot pool, and do any other activities requiring fine dexterity with my left hand as well. This includes shooting a rifle, which is VERY natural to me. Not only am I left eye dominant, but I have a much greater trigger control with my left hand. In fact, I have always shot a rifle lefty, even when that rifle was a stick I picked up off the ground as a young boy playing in the neighborhood war games. Wink

I basically play all sports right handed, and do any activities that require greater physical strength/coordination right handed as well. This includes snow shoveling, cutting w/ a knife, ax, hatchet or saw, hitting a baseball, and throwing anything. I shoot a pistol right handed, though from a bladed stance, which moves the gun over towards my dominant left eye. I cock my head ever so slightly to get sight picture and seems natural to me. I have also always shot a 'stick pistol' the same way as far back as I can remember. I never had to think about it, I just did it, and still do.

There are some activities that I can do ambidextrously. I can mouse a computer with either hand, though over time I've evolved a bit there. I now use a mouse right handed almost exclusively, but have always used the touchpad on a laptop with my left hand. With a hammer I tend to start/set nails lefty, but drive nails righty. I can use a wrench or drive a ratchet with either hand, but I pretty much stick to 'righty tighty, loosey lefty'. Cool

I hold a cell phone/radio in my right hand, and operate/push any buttons (on pretty much anything) with my left hand.
I am a right handed drinker, and wear a watch on my left hand, which is exactly where it should be worn! Razz


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January 26, 2021, 03:56 PM
charlie12
I'm right handed but in high school I blew up my right hand with a cherry bomb. So I was left handed for over a year.
Then went back to right hand but I still do some things left handed. I still keep my change and keys in my left pocket.

I've always been left footed. I kick left footed and start off on my left food walking. That helped when marching in the Army.


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January 26, 2021, 04:08 PM
Leeann
Forgot to say: I wear my watch on my right hand. If I put it on my left for any reason, including for the 6 months when I screwed up my right humerus (and the doc screwed it back together for me), I never looked at it. So there's no point.


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January 26, 2021, 06:03 PM
YellowJacket
I use my left hand for the snare drum and my right hand for the hi hats and ride cymbal.



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January 26, 2021, 06:10 PM
john crusher
Left-handed for sure.
Left eye dominant but I shoot with both eyes open so I shoot right but train left also.
Because I am a Mechanic I use both hands about the same but when doing fine dexterity it is the left that works best.
January 26, 2021, 08:17 PM
motor59
About the only things I do right handed is use a mouse and a P-38 can opener.
Watch is on the left wrist.




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January 27, 2021, 10:28 AM
snoris
I’m all messed up.

Right eye dominant

Write, eat, use tools, and fine motor skills right-handed

Shoot firearms right-handed

Kick right-footed

Play golf left-handed

Baseball: Bat left-handed, throw left handed, BUT

Hockey: Shot left-handed, but since I was a goalie, the natural move is to catch with the left hand, so I ended up being able to catch a 90 MPH puck better with my left hand than I could catch a baseball with my right.

Go figure.