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[bobtheduck]

i write with my left but throw with my right i hold a spoon in my left but play snooker with my right i play tennis with my left but play darts with my right, am i right or left handed and can someone explain the variations?

[bballwardy7]

I am much the same - i write left handed, eat right handed, throw left handed, bat right or left handed but i still consider myself left handed becuase thats the hand i write with!

[gravity]

I am fairly ambidextrous but predominantly right handed,  I read recently that the incidence of left handedness has dramaticly increased in Britain in the last 30 years and apparently this is not to do with a greater tolerance of left handedness (ie no longer whipping left hands when they try and perform tasks) but relates to being scanned whilst in the womb and since this was introduced the incidence of left handedness has increased and in countries where they do not routinely scan the incidence is lower.

Apart from this the scans are pretty much safe so dont worry, but it could scramble our wiring in some way

[Potatoman]

Id give my right arm to be ambidextrous!!!

[Jayfer]

Taught by nuns, beaten regular for being a "leftie" Left arm tied to your leg. Told if you died you would burn in hell. All this as a child. Yet I am still left handed. I work in engineering, at times being a leftie is a positive plus. At home I can cut all the angles that my husband can't. As for languages, I am not fluent in any but I more than get by in most. If it adds anything to the debate I have a mensa rating of 131. Whether this is because of the nuns or despite them, you tell me?

[scubapro1957]

I write, throw, play cricket & tennis, play guitar & trumpet left handed but eat, and play golf right handed. I don't know how I would go on playing polo because it is against the rules to play left handed and I can't swing a polo mallet with my right hand but then again .. I can't ride a horse either.

[nanner]

I just got a cool gift for my hubby, who also suffers with left handedness (no offence, I just like to tease him when he writes, not sure if everyone does the weird hand position)  Any way I got him a keyboard from http://www.cyberguys.com you can enter 138 0378 into the search thing they offer, it doesnt show a picture of the keyboard for some reason, but the number pad is on the left side rather than right.  He loves it too, so just thought that may interest some of you.

[sarah king]

Hi bobtheduck, like myself you are definitely left-handed.  Which ever hand you write with determines which one you are.  It is really interesting how we use both in different sports, mannerisms, etc.  Although I write and iron and kick a ball with my left (obviously kicking a ball with my foot, not my hand!!!), everything else is with my right.  My brothers however are completely opposite.  Write and iron with the right, everything else with their left.  So believe when I say the prediction is by which hand you write with.  Hope this helps. Sarah

[Dahmerqueen]

I would say you are definitely ambidextrous

It is a common error that this phrase means simply 'a person who can write with both hands'

It actually indicates a person who operates with both sides of the brain, The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice-versa

I myself write with my left hand, however I do almost everything else with my right hand. (Snooker / Eating / Darts .. you name it)

I do not do this because I was taught in a 'right handed fashion' but because it is natural for me to do this.

As a child the teachers would try to force me to write  right handed (even to the extent of sitting me to the right of a right handed person to cause deliberate clashes, or forcing me to keep my page straight (Like many 'lefties' I turn the page clockwise at a 90degree angle to write)

My Mother found out and went to see the teachers at school and demanded I was allowed to use whichever hand I wanted (If it was natural for me to use my left hand then no-one has the right to try to alter this)

R x

[corrideo]

I'm left handed, but eat "right handed" ie conventional use of cutlery, etc.  I wear my watch on the right wrist, put the phone to my right ear, but shoot (clays) left handed and archery too.  Tennis - right handed!  Mind you am not very good at these sports!

[Tha-Flash]

I'm ambidextrous.

I might just learn how to do things with both hands/feet instead.

Also, a random fact... Left handed people are more likely to kill somebody than a right handed person is.

[dimmy]

i love this subject.

my mate is a righty and throughes lefthanded. very odd.

my mum is a lefty and plays tennis righthanded and would (if she could but cant) play guitar right handed.

i  right right handed catch lest handed through right handed deal cards left handed, wear my watch on my right and eat like a lefty. i really cannot do it the "correct" way the amount of arguments we;ve had about eating is unbelievable.

it's an odd thing as i am right footed like my friend but we ride snowboards the opposite ways. it's very odd. i do many things naturally left handed.

i think it's a very indervidual thing and i love being a bit odd, it make us all unique.

[pretorious]

i am a right hander, but i wear my watch in right hand, i bat lefty, play TT with both hands and can throw pretty good with left hand too..