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I think the hand you write with tends to correlate with the hand you use for precision tasks, while you use the other for strength tasks. This works in my case (I write left-handed). If I have to exert a lot of effort (example: opening a jar with a stuck lid), I do it with my right hand. I usually turn door knobs and open doors with my right hand.
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Is it possible to be naturally ambidextrous, or is that a skill that must be learned? In other words, are some people born ambidextrous (like people are born left or right handed), or is it purely an acquired trait?
An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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yep it is!
i was born naturally ambidextrous, i can't remember exactly what happened but i went to a specialist (for some reason or another) and they told me to pick a hand and stick with it.
now my left hand is the agile one, but my right hand is the strongest.
coding is hard 
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...according to the resuts so far. IT people are the same as everybody else.
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Left half of the brain controls the right half of the body and vice versa?!? I've heard it is like this....... 
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Thomas
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Stanislaw Lem has a phantastic, marvelous and kind of almost Douglas-Adamsish SciFi story about that - "Der Flop" in German, "Peace on Earth" being the common english title.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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"The left brain controls logic and the right controls creativity": Is that sure?[^]
I thought that for left-handed people brain hemispheres were inverted...and they had also a convolution in addition 
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Handedness is also related to how the brain processes language. In the majority of people, all language processing is in the left hemisphere. Some people also have some processing happen in the right hemisphere. Here's the kicker, everyone who is left-handed has processing in the right hemisphere (though the converse is not true).
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Interesting indeed. Thanks for the links!
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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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The whole premise of this poll is flawed, with its assumption that left brain = logic and right brain = creativity (or vice versa!). This is one of those myths about our minds that sounds plausible but you can never mind any properly peer reviewed studies that give it credence.
Almost as bad as the myth that we only use 80 % of our brain capacity. If 80 % of your brain was not used you would be dead (or nearly so).
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Adrian Stanley wrote:
Almost as bad as the myth that we only use 80 % of our brain capacity. If 80 % of your brain was not used you would be dead (or nearly so).
80% of the brain (tissue) != 80% of the brain capacity
take away 20% of the cpu and it is indead dead
take away 20% of the capacity and it runs slower 
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I hold the pen by my right hand, but when it comes to typing I dont know which handed I am. 
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Hi! Though I am right-handed, I work my computer with the mouse in my left-hand because it allows me to do other things with my right-hand (like write, eat, drink etc) and also saves me from overstressing my right wrist. I thought that I was the only person to do this, but have found many others that do the same thing.
The best thing is that it confuses conventional right-handed people who try to use my computer, and causes no end of swearing. 
I wonder how many others do the same thing?
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Well, I'm basically left-handed (writing, soccer, eat, drink), but when using computers, I use the mouse with my right-hand, just a mirror copy of you!
My left hand is still very useful to write some notes on blockpaper at the left side.
I suppose I started using mouse with my right hand, because first pictures of computer mice I saw in 1986-1987, exploited every mouse located on the right side on the keyboard. I started using the mouse with such hand only because I was convinced by those images.
At now, after 16 years of mousemoving, I can't use my left hand almost at all. My colleagues insist on using both the hands with the mouse, because many of them had some headaches and back and neck issues caused by wrong desk sitting.
Marco Tenuti - www.tencas.com
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I do the same thing - use the mouse with the left hand. Although I switch relatively frequently... if I keep my mouse with the right hand all the time, my wrist starts to hurt. Moving the mouse over to the left was the best ergonimic move I've ever made...
An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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I have just switched my mouse to the left-hand side and am having no trouble using it there even though I have spent my entire life using it right-handedly! Perhaps I am ambidextrous after all.
I think it is quite a good idea to switch mouse sides now and then to ease the wrist-strain. I am going to try it for a while longer and let you know how it goes.
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Hello!
Primarily, I used mouse with my right hand. A year ago, I switched to left hand when I started feeling stress in the wrist. It took me a little while to get used to it. Now I can switch hands easily as and when required (COMMANDOS helped me a lot  )
It's quite handy for the num pad and right hand side keys, but still feels bad when you need Ctrl+A, Ctrl+B, CAPS, Start+R, Start+D etc. Also while using someone's computer, you don't have to change the side.
In the end, it's good to hear, "Hey! are you a lefty?".
It doesn't matter who is saying, what matters is "WHAT is she saying"
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Glad to hear that I am not the only one. When I first switched sides, I did have a problem with games that needed lightning-quick responses, but I am now an ace with both hands (IMO ).
I am able to do a Ctrl+A with my right-hand, but the other combinations are impossible for me, so I don't tend to use them.
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Sounds like fun! I am going to try it for a while.
Andy C
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Wow - I thought I was the only one that worked that way! I use a left-handed track ball, but am right-handed. I've been doing that since 1990. Sure does confuse people, and as you stated, it frees up the right hand to type, hit enter, etc.
When I set up a computer for the kids at home, I set it up the same way, now they grew up thinking that's the correct way to use a mouse (and it is, IMHO).
VMS rules!
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I guess for me it was somewhat similar.
I am right-handed, use the mouse right-handed, but am at computer so much, learned to eat and drink left-handed. Now when I go to restaurant, I naturally reach for sandwich and beverage glasses with left hand. Can use utensils with either hand. Sports mostly right handed, but can golf either way. Karate and Judo always uses both sides. Hammer with right hand, but use screwdriver with left hand.
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Some things you just can't do left handed without the right tools and I think most left handers through necessity will learn to use their right hand for some things and will eventually become Ambidextrous.
I took me years to work out why i was completely useless when it came to using scissors.
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I don't know when a person can be considered ambidextrous, but I suppose anybody is ambidextrous when he can write with both hands in almost the same way and at same speed.
Writing is obviously the most challenging task, because it needs perfect coordination and precision of several fingers.
Marco Tenuti - www.tencas.com
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