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I chose ambidextrous because although I write with my left hand, I do a lot of other things with my left and my right hands (like batting, throwing, etc.). My left hand feels more natural, but I can do these other things with my right. Of course, my handwriting is utter garbage, but that's a different story. 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Of course, my handwriting is utter garbage
Maybe try and write with your right hand then? Just a thought 
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote: Watson's law:
As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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Paul Watson wrote: Maybe try and write with your right hand then?
I did, it's worse.  I never write anymore, it actually takes longer to write than type nowadays. I reckon I'm just not used to it.
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I choose right handed but I did shoot hockey with a left handed stick and I can and do eat or drink with either hand but that is about all I can think about on that. Throwing or hitting a baseball with the left hand can happen but it is not pretty at all. And as for writing I can not do that with either hand anymore but I used to be much better with my right hand.
[EDIT]I guess I can use a mouse with either hand but 99% of the time it is on the right side of the keyboard.[/EDIT]
Last modified: 18mins after originally posted --
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: I guess I can use a mouse with either hand but 99% of the time it is on the right side of the keyboard.
Same here. I leave mine on the right side mainly for other people using my computer. Although, if I use my left hand for it I still prefer keeping the buttons the same rather than use the left-hand button configuration - go figure.
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My belief is that the real meaning of ambidextrous is that you are equally skilled in both hands at the same task, and equally comfortable with both hands at the same task. Having different tasks allocated to either hand is not ambidextrous.
Truly ambidextrous people write as well and as comfortably with either hand and do not use one exclusively.
Those of us who write well with one hand and throw a ball well with the other are not ambidextrous. We judge handedness by which ever hand we typically write with, or use a knife with when eating.
Douglas Jensen
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Dougals Jensen wrote: Those of us who write well with one hand and throw a ball well with the other are not ambidextrous. We judge handedness by which ever hand we typically write with, or use a knife with when eating.
I don't believe handedness should be singled out to writing, and it seems the dictionary agrees with me as they do not point out writing is the dominant factor. And, I don't always prefer my left. Granted, my left hand always feels more natural, but I can still do things - like play the guitar or batting, etc. - right handed.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/left%20handed[^]
So using two hands, but for different activities isn't ambidextrous then what is it? I don't do everything with one hand, so I can't really refer to myself as single-handed. I don't know of any other term for it either. I guess it's really a case of semantics, but if what I do is not being ambidextrous, then I'm not sure what it is outside of being weird. 
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I just checked the dictionary you referred me to and ambidextrous is defined as equally skilled with both hands - though it does not necessarily describe performing the same task with each hand. It does make mention of a surgeon being described as ambidextrous, so I assume there is some reference to skill transference.
If you perform as well with either hand, then the dictionary classifies you as ambidextrous.
Douglas Jensen
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Dougals Jensen wrote: If you perform as well with either hand, then the dictionary classifies you as ambidextrous.
Well, I guess my point was, if I write with my left hand because it feels more natural, but I know I can train my right hand to do it as well and do other things with my right hand... what does that make me?
I reckon it shall remain a mystery forever lost in the sands of time.
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You must like mystery. I just said that by definition you are ambidextrous. Mind you, there are an unusually high number of people adding to this topic claiming to be ambidextrous and that surprises me, a mere right handed mortal with some left handed skills.
Douglas Jensen
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Dratted left-handed engineering...;P
Last modified: 19hrs 36mins after originally posted -- Ah, there we go...
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Left-hand doesn't know what the right-hand is doing
(It is up on the front-page now.)
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote: Watson's law:
As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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