So start to learn writing with your right hand.



Ambidextrous people own page 2.




 

some thing I do left some right

I can't jerk it with my right hand, it feels unfaithful

/ thread
ETA, that is sig line material there.

Another lefty here!

I am left handed but can use most tools and sporting equipment as well with one hand as the other. For example I can shoot a right handed compound bow just about as well as I can shoot a left handed compound bow. Most right handed people that I know can not do that. Same with using a hammer to pound a nail, I can do it equally well with either hand. Most right handed people are nearly totally right handed wheresa most left handed people are anmidexterous to some degree. One more thing, I have never met a right hander who could speed load a Smith & Wesson faster than I can.

I write and shoot left handed but do everything else right handed.  So in other words it's hard to find a rifle and write since left handed writing smears ink and is tricky in binders/notebooks.

So who uses ink and writes in binders and notebooks now days?

I'm cross dominant and do somethings righty and some lefty.



I've found when it comes to shooting I can shoot both hands fairly well and with red dot optics shooting both handed is a breeze.  Also, during training I do very well weak/strong shooting as in there in no difference.

Don't know if it has been said yet but it depends on which side of the Plate you hit from, this way you can avoiid the nasty curve ball

Lefty here but play guitar right handed and throw with my right.

IN THE SPIRIT OF ARFCOM ............................




I AM BOTH!



lol

right handed (pistol), left eye dominant (rifle)

I am a lefty but I am also able to do things with my right hand. However one thing that I can not do with my right hand is write. I am the only one in my family who is left handed not sure what that means but I am proud to stand out. I do use my right hand when using Firearms.  




International Left-Handers Day 13 August

  Left-Handed U.S. Presidents
NOT JUST DEMOCRATS ARE LEFT HANDED
   James A. Garfield  (1831-1881) 20th
   Herbert Hoover  (1874-1964) 31st
   Harry S. Truman  (1884-1972) 33rd
   Gerald Ford  (1913-    ) 38th
   Ronald Reagan  (1911 -    ) 40th
   George H.W. Bush  (1924-    ) 41st
   Bill Clinton  (1946-    ) 42nd
   Barack Obama  (1961-    ) 44th

  Left-Handed U.S. Politicos
   Senator Bill Bradley, Rhodes scholar, basketball star
   McGeorge Bundy, presidential advisor
   Benjamin Franklin, statesman/publisher/scientist
   Steve Forbes, businessman/publisher
   Jean-Marc Froidevaux ?, Swiss politician
   Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice
   Senator Daniel Inouye
   Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice
   Alan Keyes, US Senator, US Ambasador
   Brigadier Gen. Lee Hsien Loon, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
   John McCain, US SenatorB
   Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense
   Col. Oliver North, White House aid
   H. Ross Perot, businessman
   William Perry, Secretary of Defense
   Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President
   Senator Hugh Scott
   Robert Wagner, New York mayor
   Henry Wallace, Vice President
   [Senator Bob Dole - switched to left due to injury]

  Miscellaneous Left-Handers
   Joan of Arc (?), French heroine
   Lloque Yapanqui (?), Inca monarch
   Ramses II (?), Egyptian pharaoh
   Tiberius (?), Roman emperor
   Alexander the Great
   Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor
   Julius Caesar, Roman general
   Napoléon Bonaparte (?), French emperor
   Josephine de Beauharnais
   King Louis XVI of France
   Queen Victoria of England
   King George II of England
   King George VI of England
   Prince Charles of England
   Prince William of England
   Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
   Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime-minister
   Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime-minister
   Nicole d'Oresme, mathematician
   Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
   David Rockefeller, banker
   Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup in tennis
   Helen Keller, advocate for the blind
   Dr. Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary
   August Piccard, inventor of stratosphere, bathosphere
   Edwin Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
   Wally Schirra, astronaut
   Dr. Mark Silver, surgeon
   Paul Prudhomme, chef
   Cecil Beaton, photographer/costume designer
   Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (ambidexterous)
   Dave Barry, journalist
   David Broder, journalist
   Edward R. Murrow, correspondent
   Ted Koppel, journalist
   Forrest Sawyer, journalist
   Ray Suarez, journalist
   John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer/publisher
   Caroline Kennedy, lawyer/author
   Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan
   Vin Scully, sports broadcaster
   David Letterman (?), host
   Jay Leno, host
   Lenny Bruce, comedian
   Allen Ludden, host
   Joel Hodgson, host of Mystery Science Theater 3000
   Wink Martindale, game show host
   Uri Geller, psychokinetic performer
   Richard Simmons, exercise guru
   Euell Gibbons, naturalist
   Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets
   General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
   Clarence Darrow, lawyer
   F. Lee Bailey, lawyer
   Melvin Belli, lawyer
   Marcia Clark, lawyer
   Alan Funt, television producer
   Milt Caniff, cartoonist
   Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
   Cathy Guisevite, cartoonist
   Matt Groening, cartoonist
   Jean Plantureux (Plantu), political cartoonist
   Pat Oliphand, political cartoonist Ronald Searle, cartoonist
   Pat Robertson, evangelist/politician
   N.B. Forrest, Confederate general
   John Dillinger, criminal/bank robber
   Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo), serial killer
   Jack-the-Ripper, serial killer
   John Wesley Hardin, Western gunslinger
   Bart Simpson, cartoon character
   [King Edward III of England, due to stroke]

  Left-Handed Authors
   James Baldwin, novelist
   Bet Bowen, horror novelist
   Peter Benchley, novelist
   Lewis Carroll
   Richard Condon, novelist
   Jean Genet
   Marshall McLuhan
   Diane Paul
   Helen Hooven Santmyer, novelist
   Viktoria Stefanov
   Samuel C. Warner (?), poet
   H.G. Wells
   Jessamyn West
   Eudora Welty, see One Writer's Beginnings (1983:27)
   [Thomas Carlyle - switched to left due to injury]

   Left-Handed Musicians
   Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
   David Byrne (Talking Heads)
   Glen Campbell
   Vicki Carr
   Natale Cole
   Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
   Phil Collins (Genesis)
   Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
   Dick Dale (guitarist)
   Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
   Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
   Bela Fleck, jazz musician
   Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
   Eric Gale, guitarist
   Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)
   Errol Garner, jazz pianist
   Judy Garland
   Crysal Gayle
   Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)
   Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
   Jimi Hendrix
   Isaac Hayes
   Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)
   Albert King, guitarist
   Melissa Manchester
   Chuck Mangione, trumpet
   Martina McBride ?, country music singer
   Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)
   Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
   George Michael (Wham!)
   Peter Nero, conductor
   Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)
   Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
   Cole Porter, song-writer
   Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer
   Maurice Ravel ?, composer
   Lou Rawls
   John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
   Rich Szabo, trumpeter
   Seal
   Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)
   Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
   Tiny Tim
   Rudy Valee
   Lenny White, drummer
   Paul Williams, song-writer

   Left-Handed Artists
   Albrecht Dürer
   M.C. Escher
   Hans Holbein
   Paul Klee
   Michelangelo
   LeRoy Neiman
   Raphael
   Leonardo da Vinci (RH paralyzed?)

   Left-Handed Actors
   Don Adams
   Dan Aykroyd
   Eddie Albert
   Tim Allen
   June Allyson
   Harry Anderson
   Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
   Herschel Bernardi
   Robert Blake
   Matthew Broderick
   Bruce Boxleitner
   Carol Burnett
   George Burns, comedian
   Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
   Keith Carradine
   Khaled Chahrour, Egyptian actor
   Charlie Chaplin
   George Gobel, comedian
   Chuck Conners
   Hans Conreid
   James Cromwell
   Tom Cruise
   Quinn Cummings
   Daniel Davis
   Bruce Davison
   Matt Dillon
   Marty Engles, comedian
   Olivia de Havilland
   Robert DeNiro
   Michael Dorn
   Fran Drescher, comedian
   Richard Dreyfuss
   W.C. Fields
   Larry Fine ? (of the Three Stooges)
   Peter Fonda
   Greta Garbo
   Terri Garr
   Paul Michael Glaser
   Whoopie Goldberg
   Betty Grable
   Cary Grant
   Peter Graves
   Mark Hamill
   Rex Harrison
   Goldie Hawn
   Joey Heatherton
   Tippi Hedren
   Jim Henson, puppetteer
   Kermit the Frog
   Rock Hudson
   Angelina Jolie
   Shirley Jones ?
   Gabe Kaplan
   Danny Kaye
   Diane Keaton
   George Kennedy
   Nicole Kidman
   Lisa Kudrow
   Michael Landon
   Hope Lange
   Joey Lawrence
   Peter Lawford
   Cloris Leachman
   Hal Linden
   Cleavon Little
   Shirley MacLaine
   Andrew McCarthy
   Kristy McNichol
   Steve McQueen
   Howie Mandel, comedian
   Marcel Marceau, mime
   Harpo Marx
   Marsha Mason
   Mary Stuart Masterson
   Anne Meara, comedian
   Sasha Mitchell
   Marilyn Monroe
   Robert Morse
   Anthony Newley
   Kim Novak
   Ryan O'Neal
   Sarah Jessica Parker
   Estelle Parsons
   Anthony Perkins
   Ron Perlman
   Luke Perry
   Bronson Pinchot
   Joe Piscopo, comedian
   Robert Preston
   Michael J. Pollard
   Richard Pryor, comedian
   Robert Redford
   Keanu Reeves
   Don Rickles, comedian
   Julia Roberts
   Mickey Rourke
   Eva Marie Saint
   Telly Savalas
   Jean Seberg
   Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
   Christian Slater
   Dick Smothers, comedian
   Brent Spiner
   Slyvester Stallone ?
   Terence Stamp
   Jessica Steen
   Rod Steiger
   Alan Thicke
   Terry Thomas, comedian
   Emma Thompson
   Rip Torn
   Peter Ustinov
   Brenda Vaccaro
   Karen Valentine
   Rudy Vallee
   Dick Van Dyke
   Graham Walker a.k.a. Grumbleweeds, English comedian
   Wil Wheaton
   James Whitmore
   Treat Williams
   Bruce Willis
   William Windom
   Oprah Winfrey
   Mare Winningham
   Joanne Woodward
   Keenan Wynn
   Stephanie Zimbalist

  Left-Handed Athletes
   SOCCER
   Jans van Breukelen (soccer)
   Dan Burbott (?) (soccer)
   Johan Cruyff (soccer)
   Willem van Hanegem (soccer)
   Hernan Medford (soccer)
   Pelé -Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer)
   Diego Armando Maradona (soccer)
   Romario (soccer)
   Hugo Sanchez (soccer)
   Richard Witschge (soccer)
    CRICKET
   Alan Border (cricket)
   Alistair Campbell (cricket)
   Denis Compton (cricket)
   Saurav Ganguly (cricket)
   David Gower (cricket)
   Gary Sobers (cricket)

    OLYMPIC SPORTS
   Francis X. Gorman (diving)
   Greg Louganis (diving)
   Mark Spitz (swimming)
   Bruce Jenner (decathlon)
   Nikita Kohloff (wrestling)
   Dorothy Hamill (skating)

    GOLF
   Bonny Bryant (golf)
   Bob Charles (golf)
   Russ Cochran (golf)
   Connie Decker (golf)
   NOT Ben Hogan (golf), who is included on many published lists

    FENCING
   Cécile Argiolas (fencing)
   Laura Flessel-Colovic (fencing)
   Fabrice Gazin (fencing)
   Matthieu Gourdain (fencing)
   Fabrice Jeannet (fencing)
   Giuseppe Mangiarotti (fencing)
   Hugues Obry (fencing)
   Anne-Lise Touya (fencing)
   Adeline Wuilleme (fencing)

    CYCLING
   Thomas Voeckler (French), cyclist

    HOCKEY
   Tom Barrasso
   Phil Esposito
   Cam Neely
   Terry Sawchuk
   Roman Turek

    BOWLING
   Bill Allen (bowling)
   Patrick Allen (bowling)
   Earl Anthony (bowling)
   Mike Aulby (bowling)
   Steve Cook (bowling)
   Patty Costello (bowling)
   Dave Davis (bowling)
   Cara Honeychurch (bowling)
   Tish Johnson (bowling)
   Johnny Petraglia (bowling)
   Andy Varipapa (bowling)

    BILLARDS
   Steve Mizerak, Jr. (billiards)
   Kun-Fang Lee (billiards)
   Bonnie Arnold (billiards)
   Reynaldo Grandee (billiards)

    BADMINTON
   Erik Poul Hoejer (badminton)
   Peter Rasmussen (badminton)
   Donna Stacey (netball)

    BOXERS
   Carmen Basilio (boxing)
   James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (boxing)
   Marvin Hagler (boxing)
   Oscar de la Hoya (boxing)
   Reggie Johnson (boxing)
   Rafael "Bazooka" Limon (boxing)
   Freddie Miller (boxing)
   Jacker Patterson (boxing)
   Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker (boxing)

    DRIVERS
   Johnny Herbert (Formula 1 driver)
   Terry Labonte (NASCAR race car driver)
   Ayrton Senna (Formula 1 driver)
   Karl Wendlinger (Formula 1 driver)
   Valentino Rossi (motorcycle racer)

    AMERICAN FOOTBALL
   Frankie Albert (Am.football)
   Terry Baker (Am.football)
   Mark Brunell (quarterback)
   Bobby Douglass (Am.football)
   Norman "Boomer" Esiason (Am.football)
   Jim Del Gaizon (Am.football)
   David Humm (Am.football)
   Paul McDonald (Am.football)
   Scott Mitchell (Am.football)
   Gayle Sayers (Am.football)
   Allie Sherman (Am.football, coach)
   Kenny Stabler (Am.football)
   Steve Young (Am.football)
   Jim Zorn (Am.football)

    BASKETBALL
   Nate Archibald (basketball)
   Walter Berry (basketball)
   Larry Bird (basketball)
   Adrian Branch (basketball)
   Calbert Cheaney (basketball)
   Dave Cowens (basketball)
   Adrian Dantley (basketball)
   Charles "Lefty" Driesell (basketball)
   Mark Eaton (basketball)
   Nick Van Exel (basketball)
   Gail Goodrich (basketball)
   Ron Kellogg (basketball)
   Toni Kukoc (basketball)
   Bob Lanier (basketball)
   Brad Lohaus (basketball)
   Harold Minor? (basketball)
   Dick Motta (basketball)
   Chris Mullen (basketball)
   Sam Perkins (basketball)
   Digger Phelps (basketball)
   Willis Reed (basketball)
   Guy Rodgers (basketball)
   Bill Russell (basketball)
   Wayman Tisdale (basketball)
   Bill Walton (basketball)
   Lenny Wilkins (basketball)
   Manuel Zuleta (basketball)

    TENNIS
   Kenneth Carlsen (tennis)
   Jimmy Connors (tennis)
   Norman Brookes (tennis)
   Courtney De Mone (tennis)
   Guy Forget (tennis)
   Andres Gomez (Santos) (tennis)
   Goran Ivanesivic (tennis)
   Rod Laver (tennis)
   Henri LeConte (tennis)
   John McEnroe (tennis)
   Thomas Muster (tennis)
   Martina Navratilova (tennis) - ambidexterous
   Manuel Orantes (tennis)
   Niki Pilic (tennis)
   Renee Richards (tennis)
   Marcello Chino Rios (tennis)
   Monica Seles (tennis)
   Roscoe Tanner (tennis)
   Guillermo Vilas (tennis)
   Mark Woodforde (tennis)

    BASEBALL
   Steve Carlton ? (pitcher)
   Whitey Ford (pitcher)
   Paul Gibson (pitcher)
   Lefty Grove (pitcher)
   Ron Guidry (pitcher)
   Al Habrosky (pitcher)
   Steve Howe (pitcher)
   Bruce Hurst (pitcher)
   Carl Hubbell (pitcher)
   Randy Johnson (pitcher)
   Tommy John (pitcher)
   Bob Kipper (pitcher)
   Joe Magrane (pitcher)
   Greg Swindell (pitcher)
   Brady Anderson (baseball)
   Steve Avery (baseball)
   Harold Baines (baseball)
   Barry Bonds (baseball)
   Wade Boggs ? (baseball)
   Lou Brock (baseball)
   Brett Butler (baseball)
   Will Clark (baseball)
   Ty Cobb (baseball)
   Adrian Dantley (basketball)
   Lenny Dykstra (baseball)
   John Franco (baseball)
   Tom Glavine (baseball)
   Lefty Gomez (baseball)
   Leon "Goose" Goslin (baseball)
   Ken Griffey, Jr. (baseball)
   Tony Gwynn (baseball)
   Rickey Henderson (baseball)
   Kent Hrbek (baseball)
   "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (baseball)
   Reggie Jackson (baseball)
   David Justice (baseball)
   Wally Joyner (baseball)
   Sandy Koufax (baseball)
   John Kruk (baseball)
   Kenny Lofton (baseball)
   Fred Lynn? (baseball)
   Kevin Maas (baseball)
   John McGras (baseball)
   Fred McGriff (baseball)
   Heinie Manush (baseball)
   Dave Martinez (baseball)
   Don Mattingly (baseball)
   Jackie Mitchell (baseball)
   Stan Musial (baseball)
   Troy O'Leary (baseball)
   Paul O'Neil (baseball)
   John Olerud (baseball)
   Mel Ott (baseball)
   Rafael Palmeiro (baseball)
   Dan Pasqua (baseball)
   Babe Ruth (baseball)
   "Neon" Deion Sanders (baseball/Am.football)
   Warren Spahn (baseball)
   Casey Stengel (baseball)
   Darryl Strawberry (baseball)
   Lou Whitaker (baseball)
   Ted Williams (baseball)
   Fernando Valenzuela (baseball)
   Tommy Lasorda (baseball manager)

I can, but it's a bit awkward, and I can only write about half as fast.

I also shoot left-handed, but can rather comfortably shoot right-handed.

Ive used quite a few pens that smear, and I use a spiral notebook in class every day to take notes.

Left handers ......

We can shoot with our strong arm while driving .
We pretend to be righties for shooting classes and rock the weak hand part
and the women love us because ...... .

Another thing is we finish a book in seconds because we start from the back lol

Righty owns. Because I heard lefties hate freedom.

say it loud and proud brutha!

I always turn everything a quarter turn counter clockwise and write vertical, straight up the page.  No smearing, no problem with ring binders or any other type of bound book.  Get some strange looks from people though.

"Never shake hands with a left handed gun."

Lefties can do things righties can't.  Righties can't do things lefties can.

Lefties can shoot and drive at the same time.  In the USA, at least.

which means 55% of 'em are righties. Left handers winz again!

(Ronald Reagan FTMFW)

If you play sports or shoot guns, being a righty gives you more options as far as gear goes. That being said, lefties have some advantages, in hockey the goalie never expects a left handed shot.

this poll is very interesting because left handed people represent only 10% of the world's population, yet the poll is almost evenly split.

I'm a lefty fwiw.

Southpaw ftw!  I'm pretty ambidextrous though.  Left eye dominant.

I throw left and bat right.

Can I get an AMEN?






 

Seems to me that it's only an issue with certain types of firearms, and when writing (on certain surfaces, with certain instruments).

The only advantages I see in being left handed are sports related.
a left handed pitcher will have a different action on pitches. Likewise for playing tennis. A serve from a lefty is harder to judge.
Other than that I vote for righty.

and statistically proven smarter. There have extensive studies on this matter. Left handed people in general are more gifted and have a higher IQ. The Left handed male shares the same shape of brain as a female(laugh but its true) and are said to have an extra sense about them that right handed male are void of. Left handed males are proven to have a better understanding of women and women can relate to them better. There are many more traits that a Lefty has that a right handed person doesn't have. These are not my results but results of Universities across the world. I had to do a paper on this many years ago. So in general it may be a Right handed world but the Lefties seem to adjust better and take control. Scientific study.

On the contrary. He states that the Left handed warriors are the better Warriors. Look up Judges 3:15 and here is one....

Judges 20:16 "Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss"

This is fun.

I can use both for everything. Played Baseball with both hands,hockey both hands, shoot both hands, use right handed scissors(and left if needed). It is easy for me to use both sides of my brain.

So there's more gay lefties?






 

What if you're ambidextrous?

I've always explained it that since left handers must grow up in a right handed world, at a very young age they must develop intellectual and adaptive skills in order to accomplish things that their right handed peers do not.  



There are simply more challenges for a left hander to overcome, so that is why they are smarter.  Because they HAD to be.  The structure of the brain appears different because of all the neural pathways developed in the early formative years.



That is my pet theory, anyway






But regardless of the actual cause, there is simply no debate that left handers are better
 As you already know, you can pick pretty much any study on this at random and the results will be the same

 

You're wasting your time.  Southpaws aren't intelligent enough to understand Latin.



 

Left handed men use both sides of their brain.  Right handed men tend to use only the left side.  So left handed men recover better from stroke and other brain injury than do right handed men.

Most things are designed to be used by people who are right handed.

It's like an inside joke for all the world to see, isn't it?



I guess lefties lack dexterity.



But I get to dual wield FTMFW AKIMBO since I'm cross dominant. Both my trigger fingers get 'er done!



 

I actually have two right hands.





 

I read a medical study on genetics once and it said that left handed people are like 75% more likely than their right handed counterparts, to be gay. I'm just say, LOL.

J-