How ambidextrous are you?

[xBiffx]

The stranger is not a stranger to me.

Isn't that more about numbness than which side?

Anyways, +1. :biggrin:

 

[Jaskalas]

I'm a Lefty that uses a normal mouse with my right hand.

That's typical though, right?

 

[Cuda1447]

I play hockey lefty.... always have. But I'm a righty in everything else. Dunno how that happened.

 

[Mixolydian]

I'm a Lefty that uses a normal mouse with my right hand.

That's typical though, right?

Yep.

 

[Platypus]

very, the only thing I can't do equally if not better with my left hand is write fast.

 

[rcpratt]

How do most people hold a hockey stick? For me I would I would have my left foot and shoulder forward and my left hand lower on the stick. Is that a "left handed" hockey approach?

Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's just the wrong approach whether you are a righty or lefty. Left foot and shoulder forward would imply righty, but in that case your right hand would be lower on the stick (where it provides greater power and control). What you're describing sounds like a backhanded lefty shot?

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'm left handed. I can mouse with both hands, but that's only because I spent the first part of my life using computers with mice on the right hand side. I only made the effort to switch about 5 years ago because I thought it might make me more accurate in PC games. I can't do anything else of consequence with my right hand.

 

[Puppies04]

I am left handed for writing, pretty much do everything else with either hand.

 

[suse920]

How do most people hold a hockey stick? For me I would I would have my left foot and shoulder forward and my left hand lower on the stick. Is that a "left handed" hockey approach?

When shooting?

Generally most righties would have their left foot forward and right hand lower on the stick as that hand provides most of the control and power. Their bodyweight is going to shift from their right foot (back) to their left foot (front) during the shooting motion. Their shoulders should basically be square with the net at the end of the shooting motion.

Lefties would have their right foot forward and their left hand lower on the stick. They would shift their weight from their back foot (left) to their front foot (right) during the shooting motion.

To have your left hand lower on the stick and your left foot and shoulder forward you would either have to be shooting backhand with your left arm going across your body, or you would have to start your shot with your stick behind you and finish with the left shoulder facing foward.

 

[tfinch2]

I'm all sorts of mixed up. I write and eat with my left hand.

When I play basketball, I shoot with my left, but feel more comfortable dribbling and driving to my right. I can go left though. When I could dunk, I preferred my right hand as well.

I throw with my right, but can throw left as well.

 

[hans007]

I'm right handed. But I've been playing basketball so long I don't really think about it dribbling or shooting a layup left handed. I can do a crossover probably about the same. A jumper definitely not though


You can probably get used to doing a lot of things left handed with practice. I'm pretty comfortable say in everyday life left handed if its convenient. Like brushing my teeth etc. Some people using their left for anything is really uncoordinated but you might as well train your off hand it becomes useful

 

[HeXen]

I can't do much of anything with my left, all it does is provide support and backup aid to the right.

 

[quackagator]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

 

[Childs]

I can shoot jump shots and free throws left handed. Even though the form is correct, I dont have the range that I do with my right. Accuracy is pretty good, but would probably go to hell if someone closed out on me. Come to think of it, I use my left a lot, but when something really requires precision I use my right. I can use chopsticks with my left, but can't do rice with it. I think playing baseball as a kid helped.

 

[Legios]

I think I became ambi because I was confused what I was supposed to be.

I use utensils with my right hand.

I eat with my right hand- my precision hand.

I pitch with my left.

Bowl with my left.

But what's retarded is that my strong punch arm feels like it's my right hand.

I like that term, "Precision" hand.

Although my precision hand is also the "Brute force" hand. I was just thinking about all the mundane tasks I do which I couldn't do with either hand.

I think gaming is the one area which focuses everyone into almost the same path. Gamepads almost always have the d-pad on the left and the buttons on the right. Im sure pc gamers have the odd southpaw where they game opposite but generally WASD in left mouse in right.

What about legs/feet? Stronger jump off foot? Kicking foot? I play in a kickball league and can read people and where they are likely to kick based on how they stand at the plate. I stand as if im going to kick right footed, you can see fielders change their position based on this so I kick with my left hitting the newly created gaps. Home run nearly every time until they get the info they need to cover the whole field. I can punt a football with either foot.

 

[kranky]

I'm 1% ambidextrous. Somehow without even realizing it I learned to throw a frisbee with my left hand although I do everything else right-handed. I didn't even know that was unusual until during a game of Ultimate a friend asked why i was throwing with my left hand. That's when I started noticing that the only other people doing that were naturally left-handed.

 

[jhu]

I can write and use chopsticks with my left hand.

 

[mnewsham]

I do everything with my right hand, but i can masturbate with my left, and I have done a few weeks practice fencing with my left and could probably manage at least a passing sense of familiarity.

 

[IronWing]

I'm very complimentary. My left hand repels but my right hand attracts.

 

[rasczak]

I can fap both left and right handed.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Thus far all I have learned from this thread is that most of ATOT can spank the monkey with both hands. Thanks OP.

 

[kranky]

I'm very complimentary. My left hand repels but my right hand attracts.

I guess this was a low-budget comic. In the next-to-last panel the writer used "mechanism" when it should have said "magnetism".

 

[HumblePie]

I can do most things with both hands although I would call my right hand more dominate. My right hand is just a bit more precise than my left for finer detail tasks. I can write with my left hand for example, and have it look just as good as my right if more slanted. to make it look as good though takes a bit more concentration and time on my part though.

About the only thing I have a problem with my left hand is throwing balls in sports. It's the cocking the ball back part that screws with me. It takes just a second extra concentration the first time I have to do it than with my right hand. I can do it though and be just about as accurate, but it's something I definitely have to go think for a second and go, "wait a moment..."

My Dad is left handed and does a lot of things with his right hand though. Mainly because he grew up in a smaller town in the south where everyone was taught to do everything with their right hand period. That left handed was somehow wrong or something. So on tasks he wasn't "trained" to use his right hand for he naturally uses his left instead. But he can switch freely usually if need be. I guess growing up I got the same thing from watching him.

It's really strange because somethings I do naturally left handed, but others right. Also, I'm more predominately left footed, where I am more predominately right handed. I am more predominately right eyed though. I know it's strange but it is what it is.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i can't write with my right or throw with my left. pretty much anything else is fair game.

 

[Triumph]

Mostly ambidextrious with the exception of writing and throwing, but that's because of a mixture of practice and natural oddity. Nobody told me as a kid to hold a bat or a golf club or a rifle on my left side. I just did. I also mouse left handed and can do fairly dextrous things left handed.

How about swinging an axe, raking leaves, or pushing a broom? Either side works.

Never tried playing guitar lefty. No point, except if you want to be Michael Angelo, there's absolutely no reason to try and learn guitar both lefty and righty.