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BaldFriede
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Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:41 |
avestin wrote:
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.
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It is unusual, but not ambidextruous.
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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avestin
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Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:44 |
BaldFriede wrote:
avestin wrote:
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.
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It is unusual, but not ambidextruous.
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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I see,
I stand corrected, sorry.
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giantenemycrab
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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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darkmatter
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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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Spacemac
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Posted: February 06 2007 at 15:57 |
I'm right-handed
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markosherrera
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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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Viajero Astral
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 02:55 |
left handed, but usually I open the bottles with the right hand.
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Fassbinder
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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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Badabec
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Posted: February 09 2007 at 15:24 |
Viajero Astral wrote:
left handed, but usually I open the bottles with the right hand.
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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?
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Flokk
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Posted: February 10 2007 at 12:58 |
I'm a righty
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Nash
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Posted: February 10 2007 at 13:15 |
Im right handed
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Abstrakt
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Posted: February 10 2007 at 13:16 |
Right handed am I
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SolariS
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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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clarke2001
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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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Viajero Astral
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Posted: February 11 2007 at 20:21 |
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ViolinCyndee
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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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EliasMisael
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Posted: April 30 2007 at 12:25 |
I am a Left-Handed
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ita_prog_fan
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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 ( ) so i had to learn writing using the "good" right hand and now i can write with both hands, i'm a "forced" ambidextrous
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Edited by ita_prog_fan - May 01 2007 at 06:29
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JJLehto
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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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Drew
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Posted: May 01 2007 at 13:54 |
Right but I bat and Kick left
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