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You remind me of an eye doctor I had as a kid. He told me left-handed myopic people were going to take over the world. The fact that we were both left-handed and myopic may have had something to do with it.
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I've been led to understand that we're actually born left handed. It's only because we're told in school (or by parents) to write with our right hands, that most people turn out right-handed.
And frankly, when it comes to hand-writing (at least in the US and other places with an LTR reading order language,) it makes sense to use one's right hand. You don't smudge your writing that way.
I'm sure in parts of the world with RTL reading order (Japan, for example) probably have more left-handed people than right.
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Much more common than ambidextrous. that's for sure.
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...to be ambidextrous!
Actually I am ambidextrous. When I was a kid my elder brother bet me I couldn't write my name using my left hand (I was definitely right-handed back then), so I practiced writing with my left hand until I could use both hands to write with (I tried simultaneous writing with both hands but could only do it if writing the same text - handy for doing lines at school).
Since then I have had to do various things using either hand, tech support for a while using a left-handed person's mouse on their machine, etc. and found no problem.
Learning to drive on the wrong side of the road when I moved to the US (the right side instead the of the correct, left side as a civilized country should). Using the wrong hand for gear changing caused bashed knuckles for a while until I got used to it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Handling a mouse is one thing, but writing? 
How long did you practice? Roughly?
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I was about seven years old and practiced an hour each day for maybe two weeks. Cursive back then, block capitals these days after many, many years of writing FORTRAN on coding sheets! I have Carpal Tunnel on my right hand (most common mouse usage, probably) so when I write at all (hardly ever these days), I use my left hand mostly.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yup, sounds like a new project 
Would be cool to start writing a bit, then change pen from hands and continue writing.
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Wikipedia:
Right-handers may become ambidextrous due to an injury of their right hand or arm. |
It seems that giving your right arm is actually the first step to become ambidextrous. 
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I'm right-handed, but found out when I was a kid that I naturally write in mirror writing with the left hand, for whenever I pretend that I'm Leonardo.
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OK, wow. WHY have I never tried this before? I just discovered that I can do it too! The penmanship is sloppy (weak musculature), but the brain activity is almost automatic! I don't have to think about flipping the letters, they just come out naturally mirrored when I try it! (Except, for some reason, I had difficulty with the letter "a". But as soon as I stopped trying to force it, it just worked.)
Wow! What a perfectly useless but totally cool new trick!
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Yeah, but which hand did you use.
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Oops sorry, Right.... No, Left. Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.
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At least when the cops ask me.
Life is too shor
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You wouldn't want to appear right wing, or sinister.
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my right side is so dominant, that whenever I have problems with my right hand, it really turns my living into a big mess beeing pushed to do anything with the left one.
This includes moving the mouse which is so inaccurate that it's better not to do it at all.
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Hand writing, left-handed.
Mouse keyboard as a right handed.
When I played sport (baseball, hockey), I played right-handed (because there was not left handed equipment), and that is probably why I sucked at it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Same here. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Am right-handed but moved the mouse the the left of the keyboard a few years ago. Takes a bit getting used to, then feels natural after a while.
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Just out of curiosity, what was your motivation for this?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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To see if I could.
Not a very good reason, and has little benefit - and I still can't game with the mouse on the left
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