How many here can use both hands (about) equally well?

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Handedness?
Poll ended at 21 May 2011, 2:27 pm
Right- handed 22%  22%  [ 7 ]
Left- handed 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
Use either hand equally well 31%  31%  [ 10 ]
Use left hand or right hand somewhat more 41%  41%  [ 13 ]
Total votes : 32

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14 May 2011, 2:27 pm

I have considered myself ambidextrous for years, now.
I can use either hand roughly equally well for most anything, except maybe writing. My left- hand writing is squiggly- looking! :lol: (I am a bit more right- handed)


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14 May 2011, 2:43 pm

I eat and write with my right hand, but some things feel more comfortable with my left. I think I'm better with my right simply because most products are designed to be used with a right hand. If given a choice, I can usually use either hand.


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14 May 2011, 2:45 pm

You forgot cross-dominance.

I went for 'Use left hand or right hand somewhat more' but I'm really not sure which hand I use most. I'm right-handed for writing and tend to go right-handed for many things out of convenience, but many things I can only do left-handed, some things I can do left or right handed but I sometimes drift into left-handedness. See, not a clue which I'd consider dominant.


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14 May 2011, 2:54 pm

I tend to use my right hand more, and there are certain things I cannot do well with my left hand and vica versa.

I tend to do something the way a left-handed person would do naturally, such as holding the fork and knife in the wrong hands.



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14 May 2011, 3:11 pm

I write with my left hand, and identify as left-handed.

If I use a knife, I hold it in my left hand, unless I also have a fork. Then, I hold the fork in my left and the knife in my right, but I can do it either way. I can use scissors with either hand, but hold them backwards if I use rightie scissors in my left hand.



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14 May 2011, 3:14 pm

Bloodheart, you're right! I forgot cross-dominance! But I'm glad you pointed that out. That's one way people can learn; through their mistakes! :wink:
If there are more ways I've overlooked, let me know!


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14 May 2011, 3:17 pm

I am told I started left, but was made to write right handed,

I key letters with my right hand but mouse with my left [mousing right handed is just counterintuitive.

Generally they special, some things I can do with either They do not team well.



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14 May 2011, 3:23 pm

I've considered myself right-handed but the thing that made me confused is that when the doctors measured my hands' strenght it turned out that my left hand is stronger then the right one. And I don't understand why is that? Shouldn't the hand that I use more often, and do more things with should be the strongest one?
By the way, I also hold the fork and the knife in the wrong hands, as a left-handed person should do.


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14 May 2011, 3:31 pm

I am left handed, but can do many things including write decently with my right hand. I clicked left handed on poll though because being truly completely ambidexterous is very impressive.



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14 May 2011, 3:43 pm

I'm somewhat ambidextrous. Usually i show preferences for right or left hand, but if i have one hand in pain i can swithc easily to the other hand.


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14 May 2011, 3:51 pm

I don't know which hand I use most. When writing I use my left hand, but when holding utensils I use my right hand. I'm also able to switch which hand I use for holding utensils.



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14 May 2011, 7:47 pm

I'm right-handed, but I've practiced using my left hand enough that I can if necessary use it for some things I'd normally do with my right hand. For example, I can write legibly with my left hand, although it's slow and the result is untidy.


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14 May 2011, 7:56 pm

Neither is the dominant or weak one; both are equally as weak.

However I am right handed. I write less like a 6 year old with that hand. Maybe an 11 year old. It's still no help when it comes to buttoning my shirt.


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14 May 2011, 10:56 pm

I write much better with my right hand, but other than that I can use them pretty equally.


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