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Poll Question: What is your hand preference?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:41
Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

My ambidexterousness shows in a special phenomenon: Ask a person to shoot an arrow from a bow. A right-handed person will pick up the bow with the left hand, place an arrow in the string with the left and then shoot. It is the other way round with a left-handed person. I will automatically choose the left-handed version; in fact I just couldn't imagine to do it the other way round. I will also throw darts at a board with my left hand. But I will write with my right hand and prefer to do most other things with my right hand too, also and especially throwing a ball. So I throw darts with my left hand and balls with my right. Quite unusual.
 
It is unusual, but not ambidextruous. Smile
Ambidextruous means being able to do the same operations at the same level with both hands.
I met someone like that once in my army service. He showed it to us. He wrote a paragraph with his right hand and then the same thing with the left and the writing was quite similar (small minor changes). He also used to open bottle and cans with both hands. He said he had no particular preference. And so forth. 

I know; I was totally ambidexterous as a kid, but, as I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, I was forced to use the right hand. I can throw a dart with the right hand too, with quite an equal result; it just doesn't feel natural to me. But throwing a ball seems to be natural with my right hand, although I can also do that with my left hand, and with good results too. My ambidexterousness is buried in my childhood somewhere, because I was told to use the "good" hand and not the "bad" hand ("bad" in the sense of "evil; "böse" is German for "evil", and I was tought not to use the "böse Hand").


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:44
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

My ambidexterousness shows in a special phenomenon: Ask a person to shoot an arrow from a bow. A right-handed person will pick up the bow with the left hand, place an arrow in the string with the left and then shoot. It is the other way round with a left-handed person. I will automatically choose the left-handed version; in fact I just couldn't imagine to do it the other way round. I will also throw darts at a board with my left hand. But I will write with my right hand and prefer to do most other things with my right hand too, also and especially throwing a ball. So I throw darts with my left hand and balls with my right. Quite unusual.
 
It is unusual, but not ambidextruous. Smile
Ambidextruous means being able to do the same operations at the same level with both hands.
I met someone like that once in my army service. He showed it to us. He wrote a paragraph with his right hand and then the same thing with the left and the writing was quite similar (small minor changes). He also used to open bottle and cans with both hands. He said he had no particular preference. And so forth. 

I know; I was totally ambidexterous as a kid, but, as I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, I was forced to use the right hand. I can throw a dart with the right hand too, with quite an equal result; it just doesn't feel natural to me. But throwing a ball seems to be natural with my right hand, although I can also do that with my left hand, and with good results too. My ambidexterousness is buried in my childhood somewhere, because I was told to use the "good" hand and not the "bad" hand ("bad" in the sense of "evil; "böse" is German for "evil", and I was tought not to use the "böse Hand").
 
 
I see,
I stand corrected, sorry.
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2007 at 20:20
Right, I'm glad too.   It seems like everything caters to the right handed folk.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2007 at 23:23
I'm right handed, but I think it would be really cool to be ambidextrous.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 15:57
I'm right-handed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 19:43
right handed but when I repare my car I prefer to use the left  .
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2007 at 02:55
left handed, but usually I open the bottles with the right hand.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2007 at 12:13
Generally, I'm right-handed. But the ability of my left hand is quite above the average. There are actions I do much more successfully with my left hand. For example, to roll up the sleeves -- my right sleeve is always much neater than the left one. The same thing is with driving the ball (or how do you say this in English? -- lead the ball), say, in basketball. My left hand controlls the ball much better than the right hand does. I can write with my left hand, and the writings are quite readable (however, they are still not at the normal level).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2007 at 15:24
Originally posted by Viajero Astral Viajero Astral wrote:

left handed, but usually I open the bottles with the right hand.



With me it goes the other way round. Could it be possible that you are the opposite of me? Are you coincidentally small, have blue eyes and play the keys? Big%20smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2007 at 12:58
I'm a righty LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2007 at 13:15
Im right handed

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2007 at 13:16
Right handed am I
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2007 at 14:40

left, but i do a lot of things right handed. golf or guitar for instance.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2007 at 17:24
I'm a leftie, and a play my guitar like left-handed, preferably with the strings turned upside-down, but I can play with "right handed" strings too. However, I can't play as a right-handed (left hand on a fretboard).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2007 at 20:21
Originally posted by Badabec Badabec wrote:

Originally posted by Viajero Astral Viajero Astral wrote:

left handed, but usually I open the bottles with the right hand.



With me it goes the other way round. Could it be possible that you are the opposite of me? Are you coincidentally small, have blue eyes and play the keys? Big%20smile


Nope, Im medium stature, brow eyes and I play the guitar Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2007 at 20:39
I am left handed but do a few things right handed.  (using a knife and scissors!)
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2007 at 12:25
I am a Left-Handed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 05:58
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I'm a natural lefty, but when i was a child (during the '60) all people used to tell me that the left hand was the "bad" hand (Confused ) so i had to learn writing using the "good" right hand Ouch and now i can write with both hands, i'm a "forced" ambidextrous LOL
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 13:35
I use my feet for everything.
 
OK, I'll answer for real this time. Right handed, pretty much entirely. I suck doing anything with left hand.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2007 at 13:54
Right

but I bat and Kick leftTongue



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