Which Hand?

[dfmacliam]

I am a 100% lefthanded according to the test listed in the book "How Left
Handers Have Thrived and Survived in a Right Handed World" But I do many tasks with both hands since I am an electrician and use both hands it is convienent to be able to use both.

I am an electrician,too. When I am teaching my guys to make joints, terminate PLC's, or stripping cable.. I have to slow down and remind them,I am a lefty and do it differently than a righty would.. I wear my tools on my left side, and do few tasks right handed..

[SteveB]

Ambidextrous:
Posters, chalkboard, hammer, screwdriver, linesman's, drawing -- Left hand.
Operating lathe, Bridgeport, surface grinder, and fixed power tools --- Right hand.

Writing, eating, portable power tools. - whichever hand is convenient.
Started writing left handed until the left hand suffered too many welts from the steel meter stick, in early elementary school. Later schools did not care which I used, and have since used either. My rodent for this computer is convenient left handed, at work - right handed.

Guess that means I am just plain confused.

Slainte

[Kilted_John]

My left foot's bigger. Am a southpaw, but I do things with both hands. Have better motor control of my right hand when it comes to throwing a tennis ball, but write much better with my left hand.

-J

[Pleater]

Electrics?

With my dad being handy with soldering iron and doing repairs to TVs and radios I grew up familiar with valves and the constituent part of such devices.

I soldered leads and contravened health and safety to set up P.A. systems as a teenager, usually in damp outbuildings with antiquated electricity supplies. Never shocked anyone, ever.

When I was working I got really angry at being electrocuted by men who did not know any thing about wiring plugs but insisted that it was not safe for me to do it. No joke at 220 volts. These days we take in repairs and it seems to be the rule that if there is a self fitted plug it is not put on properly and has the wrong size of fuse.

It's hardly rocket science - though the online test has me as very left handed - even though I do a lot with my right hand, so much that I consider myself almost ambidexterous in everyday things. It is odd that I am considered so left handed -

Anne the Pleater

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

I too am a lefty, with a bit of ambidextricity (hey, look, a new word!)

I eat, write and (mostly) sew left handed.

I use scissors and do surgery (mostly) right handed.

Go figure.

I make kilts right handed for the bits that demand it, left handed for the rest.

I wear my kilts however I want!

Be well,

[MMorgan]

I am so left handed dominant that I cant pick my nose right handed without causing a nosebleed or poking my brain.....

[Chas]

After a bit of experimentation it seems that I am omnivorous with both hands.

Regards

Chas

[butch]

It appears that the percentage of lefties at that site exceed the generally accepted percentage of the rest of mankind(also womenkind) Just remember there are two types of people in the world "Those who are lefthanded and those who would like to be" also "Everyone is born righthanded it's only the lefthanded who have overcome the physical defincienty"

[Kilt_Em_All]

I've always found this a rather difficult question to answer. It really depends on the activity we're talking about. I write with my right hand and play tennis and raquetball right handed. I also eat and brush my teeth right handed. I'm 100% left handed when it comes to playing baseball, bowling, hockey, darts, shooting rifles (pistols/handguns I'm more or less ambidextrous), shooting longbows/crossbows, etc. I physically can't put a watch on my left hand; my right hand just isn't coordinated enough to fasten the strap.

I typically consider myself to be a leftie, and while it's not truly accurate, none of the choices listed describe me precisely. :shrug:

-Elliott