who here is left-handed or right-handed or ambidextrous?

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I have no clue why I'm right handed. My mom's a lefty. Saab drivers supposedly are, my last two rides wore Griffins. I have my moments of ambidexterity but my right arm is really more aware most days.

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I'm the only leftie out of my whole family tree. mebbe in me gestation my wiring harness got all SNAFU'd for some reason. also the only one not wearing glasses, and the only one over 6' tall.

I'm left-handed : ).

When I write, I hold the pen in the conventional way (I think). But I hold the pen with all three fingers, rather than one resting behind it if that makes sense.

I'm still very poor at knots and those sort of things in general, that being said I'm a very efficient touch typer on computers (90-105 WPM), which seems like it would be a fine motor skill? Unsure. Maybe I just never had the patience to sit down and try to learn knots. I still only know one basic knot, and that's pretty much it- it does the job for me though.

Come to think of it I could also never learn guitar or any instrument (I managed to learn very, very basic keyboard). I can't process where my fingers need to be fast enough.

I tried for several months to learn how to play guitar, I made the mistake of starting on acoustic [the kind with laceratingly stiff and sharp steel strings], when I should have used a classical with gut strings instead. that said, my fingers would just not learn how to twist themselves into those complicated and compact fingerings. the fretboard needed to be 50% larger for my hand. and the callouses would never develop, my hands just kept getting cut until I said to hell with it and gave the guitar to my niece. on piano/organ I also failed to be able to make my fingers do their duty, music teacher told me I was wasting her time. as for the typing keyboard, no great shakes there either, the ink on the backspace key tends to fade before all the others.

I didn't learn how to tie my shoes until I was almost 9. to this day I rarely tie my shoes.

it's a tie between the lefties and icecream lovers

Interesting question for me...I never learned cursive writing, I simply don't have the fine finger dexterity to do it. When I PRINT on paper, I use my right hand, and the results look quite fourth gradish (if not third). Years ago in college I had to go to the blackboard in one of my classes and face another student to the left of me (while facing the class) who was also writing stuff on the board. Subconsciously I held the chalk in my left hand to write my answers to the instructor's questions. It wasn't after I sat down and began writing righthanded in pen again in my notebook that the dude sitting behind me pointed out that I had indeed used my left hand at the board, and the printing was quite legible, though still not very neat. Out of curiousity, I tried writing in my notebook with my left hand and it was so bad it made what my right hand could do look like calligraphy.
Later on I tried writing in chalk on blackboards as well as dry erase markers on the more modern whiteboards, and there is not much difference between what my left and right hands can do writing LARGE with a THICKER instrument. In smaller work such as a pen on a notepad, my right hand still does much better, thus I can conclude I'm righthanded.
FWIW, before I bought a word processing typewriter, one of my professors did ask me if I was having my child do my papers I was handing in because my printing looked so juvenile despite proper grammar usage and so forth.

I'm right handed have always been some what ambi and I developed this more for work. My father, suspected aspie, is also right handed but could only do certain things left handed.

Can I still have ice cream too?