What is your dominant hand?

Contributor: tim1724 tim1724
I do most things with my right hand. But I nearly always use my left hand for fingering my girlfriend.
08/26/2010
Contributor: NightNight NightNight
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunsmoke
You must be a very strong person - 107 can kill a person - you know the old saying, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

For those who are interested in testing eye dominance, there's an easy neat little test;

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That was amazing!
08/26/2010
Contributor: Liz Liz
Right-handed, but I make a concerted effort to use my left hand equally in everything except writing-- I once spent about a month trying to learn to write ambidextrously, but I just couldn't do it.
08/26/2010
Contributor: Airen Wolf Airen Wolf
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Originally posted by Carrie Ann
I "do" everything with my right hand but my left arm is far stronger. Probably cuz of all the years waitressing -- carrying in the left arm, serving with the right.
Same here my left hand and arm are stronger and more stable but I write with my right hand and can carry a full coffee cup in that hand...not so well with the left. Waitressing has also made my fingertips less sensitive to heat, from hot plates and trays.
08/26/2010
Contributor: twistedheartsx twistedheartsx
I'm left handed! But I use scissors, play baseball, and basketball (things like that) with my right hand!
08/27/2010
Contributor: Sammi Sammi
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Originally posted by Alicia
You know what's funny, I actually can't use most things that are made for lefties. Like lefty scissors, can't stand them. In school they always tried to give me the lefty scissors and I hated using them and would ask for the regular ... more
That is one thing I do use with my right hand - the computer mouse. It does make it easy to mouse and write at the same time
08/27/2010
Contributor: onehotmomma onehotmomma
my dad is left handed and back in the day they would try to make him write right handed. Once he got to high school they stopped, but his hand writing is awful!!
08/27/2010
Contributor: Selective Sensualist Selective Sensualist
I wish I was ambidextrous!
08/27/2010
Contributor: Fanny Fanny
Right handed all the way! I can't even stir soup with my left.
08/27/2010
Contributor: Alan & Michele Alan & Michele
I'm ambidexterous, Alan's left-handed.
08/27/2010
Contributor: El-Jaro El-Jaro
My dominant hand is the one I listen to...or else.
08/29/2010
Contributor: lamira lamira
I'm terrible with my left hand.
10/21/2010
Contributor: clp clp
I started right-handed, but then was jealous of the 'creativity' assumption that goes with left-handers.... so I taught myself to adapt. Lefty still isn't as polished as Righto, but I think it can hold its own in any hand-oriented contest.
10/21/2010
Contributor: Jobthingy Jobthingy
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunsmoke
You must be a very strong person - 107 can kill a person - you know the old saying, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

For those who are interested in testing eye dominance, there's an easy neat little test;

Make a ... more
huh. I never knew this. I am a righty and right eye dominant it seems.
10/21/2010
Contributor: Pandahb Pandahb
I am right handed but sometimes I will try writing with my left hand for the heck of it.
10/21/2010
Contributor: Viktor Vysheslav Malkin Viktor Vysheslav Malkin
Quote:
Originally posted by gone77
I'm just curious to see how many lefties and righties we've got in the community. Did you know that a lot of left-handed people were actually hit whenever they used their left hand as kids? I recommend reading this Wiki article to find out ... more
I am a righty, and I do everything with my right hand. I broke my right wrist once, and had to rely on my left a lot more than usual, and it got stronger.

Interesting fact, some right hand Hockey Players shoot left, meaning they use their non dominate hand. I always shot right.
10/22/2010
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
In some cultures, left-handed people were thought of as being possessed by demons! They used to cut off that hand to prevent "the demons" from taking over the person. Yeah, culture can do some weeeeeird stuff to people. Thankfully it's not that way anymore.

I'm right-handed. My Mom's right-handed and my Dad's ambidextrous with a preference for his left-hand. I think he's only ambidextrous because of the culture preference for right-handed kids when he was growing up. But at least he's really cool for being ambidextrous now!
10/22/2010
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
I am right handed - hubby is left handed but he can do almost anything with both except cut with scissors. Not sure why but he has to do that with his left hand.

I'm left eyed however. Always photograph with my left eye because back in the day as a teen I wore glasses that interfered with my camera when trying to shoot with the right eye. Now I've had laser surgery but yeah still left eye dominate.
10/22/2010
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunsmoke
You must be a very strong person - 107 can kill a person - you know the old saying, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

For those who are interested in testing eye dominance, there's an easy neat little test;

Make a ... more
Hey, that's pretty cool! I'm eye-ambidextrous then. I had a lazy eye as a kid and had to wear an ugly bandaid-looking eye patch for a while to strengthen my weaker eye. But now I have the ability to switch which eye I want to dominantly use and I can do it at will, with glasses on or off. I don't even remember which eye was the lazy one anymore.
10/22/2010
Contributor: danellejohns danellejohns
Quote:
Originally posted by gone77
I'm just curious to see how many lefties and righties we've got in the community. Did you know that a lot of left-handed people were actually hit whenever they used their left hand as kids? I recommend reading this Wiki article to find out ... more
I am right handed but I feel as though my left is stronger. And can use it if I have too.
01/14/2011
Contributor: Taylor Taylor
I'm not sure whether I'm left handed or ambidextrous. I write with my left hand, but when I'm doing a new activity I can usually do it equally well with both hands so I just pick whatever is more convenient. Like when I did fencing in college I chose to learn left handed bacause it is an advantage, but when I learned to knit from a right handed person I chose to learn it right handed so I wouldn't confuse myself.

I always tell people I'm left handed, but I'm actually pretty good with my right hand as well.
01/14/2011
Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunsmoke
You must be a very strong person - 107 can kill a person - you know the old saying, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

For those who are interested in testing eye dominance, there's an easy neat little test;

Make a ... more
If I use my right hand, my left eye is dominant, if I use my left hand, my right eye is dominant.

I think that is the brain damage.

Yeah, you are right, the fevers should have killed me. I used to have convulsions, too. It happened more than once, I was a really sickly little kid (which is one reason I hate being sick now, despite being sick too often.) I remember the doctor making house calls and giving me shots and alcohol baths to bring down the fevers. (They don't do alcohol baths anymore. They, also, may cause brain damage or alcohol poisoning. I was left with an asthma like reaction when I smell rubbing alcohol and a fear getting wet (which I have overcome as an adult) when I was really sick. Go figure.) I think my parents wouldn't let me go into the hospital, as they wouldn't allow children hospitalized to see their parents more than a few minutes a day back then.
01/14/2011
Contributor: Angel deSanguine Angel deSanguine
Quote:
Originally posted by Alicia
You know what's funny, I actually can't use most things that are made for lefties. Like lefty scissors, can't stand them. In school they always tried to give me the lefty scissors and I hated using them and would ask for the regular ... more
Same here. I've gotten used to living in a right hand world so, other than writing and knife skills, I predominately use my right hand. I wouldn't consider myself ambidextrous though because my right hand writing is completely illegible.

I was also taught to mirror, Chilipepper. I am glad because the other way looks incredibly uncomfortable and hand cramp-inducing!
01/14/2011
Contributor: Xavier7 Xavier7
Quote:
Originally posted by gone77
I'm just curious to see how many lefties and righties we've got in the community. Did you know that a lot of left-handed people were actually hit whenever they used their left hand as kids? I recommend reading this Wiki article to find out ... more
I'm actually ambi-dexterous.
01/14/2011
Contributor: Illusional Illusional
I use my left hand for the majority of my typing, piano playing and cursive.

My right hand for eating and lazy writing on paper.
01/14/2011
Contributor: Miss Morphine Miss Morphine
I write with my right hand, but I use my left for almost everything else.
01/14/2011
Contributor: Danielle1220 Danielle1220
I'm a righty!
01/14/2011
Contributor: ID42 ID42
I consider myself to be left handed because it IS my dominant hand and I write with it, yet I do many things right handed as well. Not least of which is masturbating. Go figure.
01/14/2011
Contributor: dv8 dv8
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
01/15/2011
Contributor: BadassFatass BadassFatass
I use my right hand for everything...in fact, a lot of the time my left hand is just dangling there and I find myself thinking "Why am I not doing this with both hands?" I have no idea why that happens to me.
01/15/2011