I saw Calenmirel's thread asking you all if you are left or right handed, and I thought I would firstly try and make my first ever poll, and secondly make a poll so it is easier to see how many of HWers are right or left handed!



That is hilarious, Calen! I am definitely going to use that because like you, I am left handed! Has anyone read the book (no offense intended) "The Natural Superiority of the Left Hander"? It's actually quite a funny and intriguing read about the differences between right and left handers.

What if you're equally bad with both?

Was that a joke? *dense*

I swear we had another poll like this somewhere! *can't find it* Ah, well.

Right hands for the win!!!

Lefties rule!!!

Yes there was, Calen. I didn't read it all though. Here: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=653

Then why are righty's winning?

Also fun fact of the day: Why do the good guys win... Because they are always in the RIGHT!

@Bushmaid: Actually, we had a Lefty vs Righty poll somewhere around here.

Anyhoo. I'm a lefty who's ambidextrous.

Oooh, ok. I looked everywhere in case one had already been made, too...



Votes aren't all in yet.

I'm right handed. If I'm surprised to find out someone's left handed, it's because I don't know many people who are.

My Dad is left handed, my Mum is right handed. And out of seven children, only 2 of us are completely left handed.

Both my parents are right handed, as are their parents and all their siblings (as far as I know). And yet my mom has two left handed children.

I know various controversial theories on this, that I shall keep firmly in my box of controversial theories.

Wow! Makes you wonder where that gene comes from, doesn't it?



Ambidextrous is someone who can use both hands for some or all things. E.g. my cousin is Ambidextrous in the way that he plays golf left handed, eats left handed, plays cricket right handed, and I think he writes right handed. A plain left hander or right hander is someone who will naturally do everything with either left or right hand.

Both my parents are right handed and my brother and I are lefties. But my uncle and his ex-wife are both left handed and their two daughters are righties. The catch is, my mom's mom and my dad's mom are both left handed.

Lol Calen! Thats funny.

My Dad is left handed, the rest of us are right handed.

Lefties are being rapidly outvoted...

Right. And Right eye dominant.

I always seemed to want to learn to write with my left hand when I was little. However both my parents were right-handed and knew only one way to teach their kid to write. Alas, I am now right-handed like them.

I'm right handed, but I can eat and write with my left hand. This becomes a very useful trick when seated next to a left handed kid. Otherwise you'd be bumping elbows.

(Is it my imagination or does that smiley look very condescending?)

I'm run o' the mill right-handed, and I have a callous to prove it. I think being leftie is cool because it's not as common. I had no idea Almond was a leftie!

We were just talking about this on my screenwriting forum. Did anyone notice - Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon (the movie) is left-handed? I think it's really neat.

Cool!

Although I wonder why there are so many more right handers then there are left... odd, hey?

"There is something you don't know. I am not left handed!"

*looks at poll dismally*

I clicked ambidextrous on the poll.

@Shawn: I hold my fork, spoon, and knife in my left hand. It's not uncommon to bump elbows at the dinner table in my family since I'm seated on the right of my mom. I eat with my right hand when I'm cutting something with my knife though. ^^

I eat with the fork in my left hand and my knife in the right, because it is the correct way to eat.

Right. Tried to be ambidextrous once and failed epically.

If I recall correctly, only 21% of the world's population is left handed. (Don't ask how they figured that one out. I have no idea.)

I did, however, find out the statistics through some pre-movie previews in the movie theater.

Not just you. I have a question, to ambidextrous people: When it comes to just holding something, say a water bottle, what do you prefer? Are either of your hands stronger, and does your opposite handwriting look terrible, like mine?

My younger sister is ambidextrous when it comes to writing. She has bad posture when she uses her right hand (but she would prefer it) but has good posture and writes a little neater with her left hand. (But she doesn't like using her left as much as her right)

I am right-handed, and so is everyone else in my family except my mom.

Lefties are awesome though.... have you ever noticed how well most of them can draw?

I've thought of trying to teach myself to write left-handed, just to see if I could, but I haven't gotten around to it.

Hmmm.... Nope. I've never noticed. I may have to try and pay attention.

*cough* my brother sure isn't one of them.

Nasty! *laughing* I'm left handed, but I'm not the best artist on the planet... actually, far from it.

This is a survey I did of left handers and right handers based on some information I read in a book on the subject. Thought you's might find it interesting.

Interesting, Bush.

Epic quote right there...

Elanhil said:

It depends. I only write with my left hand, but I can write very neatly with my right hand if I try. And I don't mean, my own unique handwriting. When I write with my right hand it looks like something out of an elementary school book text. (Maybe I'll post I comparison later.) ;P

I hold a glass with my left hand, I kick and throw things with my right hand, I switch the racket between both my hands and and use it equally in tennis, badminton, and racquetball, I stir things with my left hand, and I turn doorknobs with my right hand. *ran out of examples*

~Calen

Very informative, Calen. So it's pretty much random?

Oh, and I turn door knobs with my left hand. Does that make me ambidextrous?

Depending on how I reach the door, I sometimes turn the knob with my right hand.

Teehee! I do too!

I'd like to see how THAT works...or do I?

It is very hard to turn door knobs with your feet, unless you are barefoot. Turning door handles, though, just takes some experience. I used to try to do light switches with my feet. That would take more practice than I have given it so far, especially now that I have a door chained to me disrupting my balance.

Me too!

My left eye is dominant.

That's fascinating, Calen.

I can open screen doors with my bare feet. You know where you have to push the button in and then pull the door out? I'm very proud of the accomplishment.

When I write with my left hand it's excruciatingly slow but it so much neater than my right hand. The slant is absolutely perfect, etc. Odd. Writing with my feet is barely legible.

I've never tried drawing with my left hand.

Haha about eating Bush. I eat that way too, but from what I understand it's a cultural thing. American's put their knife down and switch their fork back to their right hand for every bite, the rest of the world just eats with their left hand.

Really? I did not know that! My little brother keeps getting picked up on it at the table because he uses his right hand to eat without his knife. We keep having to remind him to swap.

Although my other brother is right handed, and he made the swap easy, and uses his fork in the left hand all the time now.

Usually I turn doorknobs with my elbow. When my hands are full I wrap my arm around the knob near my elbow and turn my whole body around the knob to turn it. It works!

Haha. They eat that way in Brazil and I would always stare smugly at my family (because that's how I just normally eat) while they had to keep remembering =P

eruheran

I've got you all beat for opening doors. You know in public bathrooms, after you've washed you hands, you don't want to get them all dirty on the door. So I open it with my shoulder blade. Yes, my shoulder blade. I make it stick out of my back, and stick it through the little handle, than walk side-ways until the door is fully opened. Then I have to move very quickly to get my foot in front of the door, to keep it from closing. But my hands stay clean!