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I'm left handed and drove the IT support people crazy when they visited my workstation. One tech couldn't even found the mouse until I pointed it out to him. The funny thing is I started my whole family using the computer and they are all right handed and use a mouse left handed, like me.
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Left-handed persons are usually more advanced in some fields, that's my opinion 
P.S. I am right-handed, no suspect.
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Left-handed persons are more incline to be ambidextrous, probably because most of the stuff in the environment are built with right handed in mind (majority), they are forced to learn to use right hand as well.
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hi
I am confused either I am left handed or right handed LoLz. The reason I write with right hand,eat with right hand but I play cricket with left hand and I slap (very rarely) with left hand. I code with both left and right hand.
So can u guys help where I put myself??????????????;)
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don't worry, it is not your fault. they forgot to put the confused category..
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centre 
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qumer101 wrote:
and I slap (very rarely) with left hand.
Maybe your confused about your gender (assuming your male) and that indirectly causes left-hand/right-hand confusion?
Just kidding...
Seriously though...unless yer a girl...don't slap...unless you pull it off like your a mob boss or some super tough guy trying to give your opponent a break (by not punching his lights out) never ever slap...
If you must do it back handed...
qumer101 wrote:
I code with both left and right hand
I don't know of many programmers who type with a single hand. Although I don't do the whole "querty index fingers on F and J" thing...it's a derivative.
I use all fingers but pinky fing4ers...
Cheers
It's frustrating being a genius and living the life of a moron!!!
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Well Hockey I am not confused about gender . So far slap is concerned it is not only associated with gals.. Any way 
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Both my wife and I are right handed, but both of our children are left handed.
We were quite surprised by this because we thought left-handed-ness was a recessive genetic trait .. oh well, so much for playing the odds.
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IIRC a recessive can surface even though it's not visible in both parents (but both must have it I think)
So you both might be closet left handers...
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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1) I write with the my hand
2) I use my mouse with my left
3) I eat with my right hand
4) Shoot a left hockey stick
5) I throw with my right
6) When I skated I was goofy foot
7) My right forarm is significantly stronger than my left but my left arm is stronger in arm wrestles
8) I throw a frisbee with my left hand
9) I golf right handed
10) Last but not least, my left jab is a real knockout (no pun intended)
I've tried writing with my left hand...not a chance...I can brealy write with my right hand...
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It's frustrating being a genius and living the life of a moron!!!
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Hockey, you're all mixed up.. just like me...
1) I write with my left
2) I use my mouse with my right
(in a pinch I can use lefty with reversed buttons)
3) I bat right, throw left, but catch better left
(took a while for my parents to sort that one out)
4) In volleyball, I spike and serve overhand left, but serve underhand right
5) I bowl right until my forearm/wrist gets tired then switch
6) I keep the fork in the left, knife in the right
(learned from my Dutch grandma--it's how they do it)
7) And the strangest.. desk phone-left ear; cell phone-right ear.
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I'm naturally right handed, but due to an accident as a baby, I've done pretty much everything left handed.
I do occasionally freak opponents out at pool / badminton / tennis by switching hands.
I use the mouse left handed, and eat right handed (unless there is only a single utensil, in which case I use my left hand).
As for writing, I do that left handed, but hold the pen in the same way as 'most' right handed people, I don't curl my hand over the top or any of the other contortions people seem to do.
Gary
In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. - Billy Connolly
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I'm the same way, except I write left handed, but I throw a baseball right handed - and can't switch. However, some things, like tennis, I can play equally well with either hand.
I beleive it is known as hand variability and generally means your brain does not have a dominant hemisphere, but the two hemisperes trade off as needed to accomplish a given task.
"The Yahoos refused to be tamed."
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Right handed, but left with these:
- Eating
- High jump
- Goofy (skateboard, sandboard, etc)
- Starting in 100m (don't know what its called in english)
My dad says I'm just confused 
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ask u'r mom she knows for sure...
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I have a similar experience.
1) I write right handed.
2) I use the mouse with either hand but mostly right
3) I also eat and drink with either hand but favor the right.
4) I drive with either hand but favor the right.
5) When I played hockey I shot left handed
6) I throw with my right. I can throw left handed but it looks exactly like I "throw like a girl"
7) My left arm is and always been stronger than my right
8) And my left jab is a knockout too as it has saved my day a few times when I was younger.
I've tried writing with my left hand...not a chance...I can brealy write with my right hand...
I am exactly the same. I believe this is because I type everything and rarely ever write anything with pen and paper...
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I am exactly the same. I believe this is because I type everything and rarely ever write anything with pen and paper...
Had computers only been as prolific as today I may have done much better in school.
I always hated writing...which i've maybe done 2 times my whole life...I always resorted to printing...and now mostly always I type...
It's faster and more clear than any hand written or printed document. 
It's frustrating being a genius and living the life of a moron!!!
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How many lefties out there have experienced any sort of bias against their left-handedness?
The two people in my high school class who were voted 'worst handwriting' were forced by their parents to switch from writing left-handed to right-handed. It was painful to watch the girl write; she clamped the pencil between her thumb and index finger.
Software Zen: delete this;
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:Hand up:
Writing from left to right with the left hand is delicate with an ink pen: the hand is going above the text just written, when the ink isn't dry enough. However, forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me.
Ther are many bias against left handed people: think to all the tools designed for right handed people, without mentionning keyboards and mouses.
It's perhaps the reason why left-handed people have an higher average IQ, because they have to work harder to adapt. It's also probably the reason why they have a shorter life expectancy, they have more accidents in unadapted environments.
these assertations come from controversial studies, I know. But since when trolling isn't allowed? 
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That's what military intelligence does: fail. They should just drop the facade and call MI the "Department of 'Whoops!'" - Gary Brecher, aka The War Nerd
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K(arl) wrote:
forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me
Indeed. In the girl's case, I think it was her father who forced her into it. He was domineering and overbearing. She didn't move out of her parents' house until he died, even though she was a practicing attorney and made more money than her parents combined. In the boy's case, I think it stemmed from simple superstition and ignorance on his parents' part.
K(arl) wrote:
these assertations come from controversial studies
Maybe so. I had an eye doctor who told me once that left-handed myopic (near-sighted) people were going to take over the world. The fact that we were both left-handed and myopic had nothing to do with it, of course  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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In my limited experience, it seems to take a *lot* more practice for left-handed people to get to where they can write legibly. IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things..."
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That's probably because they are taught to write by right-handed people, who generally aren't going to be able to completely handle the differences between left and right writing techniques.
Shog9 wrote:
IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible
Hmm. Doesn't that sort of evade the problem? It says "We can't deal with 13% of the population properly, so just have them type everything."
In your defense, with computers nearly ubiquitous in homes and schools, kids do a substantial amount of writing at the keyboard anyway.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Speaking of watching the teachers...
I draft - meaning the old way of doing 'design' work like in archtichture - like a left-handed person even though I am right-handed, because my high school drafting teacher was left-handed. So I set up the table and hold the stencils and guides like a lefty but the pencils and pens are in my right hand.
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Your case reminds me my terrible childhood.
I am a leftty and my handwriting is bad. thats why i never writes when i can type.
but some text is writting from right to left, example is the arabic and chinese...( morden chinese is left to right anyway)
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