Left, Right or Ambidextrous

[Extortion Threat]

Right handed, left footed. I wouldn't classify myself as ambidextrous but I'm strong on my non-dominant sides, especially my right foot. In fact I didn't realise I was left footed till I was 12 & had already played 5 years of soccer thinking I was right footed.

Left hand is strong from playing hockey for 12 years, can't throw overarm or shoot a basketball lefty very well though. Always use my left hand for opening jars. Used to switch hit playing cricket sometimes long before it became popular (although mainly just for shits & giggles).

 

[Shell]

I'm left handed, but do pretty much everything else (kick a footy, play tennis) right handed.

Oh except throwing- underarm/bowling is right, overarm left.

Go figure.

 

[WeNeverTanked!]

Write, kick and handball the footy, tennis raquet, throwing all right-handed/footed, play pool, shave/brush/etc., screwing/unscrewing lids (and yes, masturbate) left-handed. Does it only count as ambidextrous if you perform the same tasks with equal skill with left and right?

Im pretty sure that ambidextrous is performing tasks with the same skill level on both sides, but it could also be performing different tasked with different hands, for example if you bowl left handed but bat right handed. I'm not fully sure but it's probably the first one.

 

[d0gs]

Primarily left, but can write right handed thanks to a broken thumb a few times. Can do almost everything on both sides that I can think of. Always liked the challenge of doing something properly on the opposite side.

 

[policegetthatman]

Write, kick, handball, throw with left.

Right handed cricket player though.

 

[Tex_21]

It has to do with your eyes or something, the way you perceive things on certain angles. Weird how it applies to different degrees, though. I know someone who only bats with his left, but people like you, where it translates to ball sports as well.

The dominance of one eye over the other is particularly relevant to shooting. I'm right handed, and right eye dominant, so it suits fine to shoot right handed. My best mate is right handed, but left-eye dominant, which is a bit of an issue.

If you want to check which you are, look at something in the distance, first with both eyes open, then one at a time, in turn. Whichever image doesn't shift, you are that eye dominant.

 

[WeNeverTanked!]

The dominance of one eye over the other is particularly relevant to shooting. I'm right handed, and right eye dominant, so it suits fine to shoot right handed. My best mate is right handed, but left-eye dominant, which is a bit of an issue.

If you want to check which you are, look at something in the distance, first with both eyes open, then one at a time, in turn. Whichever image doesn't shift, you are that eye dominant.

Is it right handed if your right hand pulls the trigger and your left holds the gun??

 

[Tex_21]

Is it right handed if your right hand pulls the trigger and your left holds the gun??

Same token, is it right handed if your left hand does all the work? Think batting in cricket, top hand does (or should do) all the work

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

I'm right handed. I jump better with my left foot though.

 

[WeNeverTanked!]

Same token, is it right handed if your left hand does all the work? Think batting in cricket, top hand does (or should do) all the work

I'd probably say it's right handed just if your facing to your right, makes it easier. I usually bat right handed just because it's easier since most bowlers are right handed but my dominant eye is my left, might be why I suck at batting.

 

[Tex_21]

I'd probably say it's right handed just if your facing to your right, makes it easier. I usually bat right handed just because it's easier since most bowlers are right handed but my dominant eye is my left, might be why I suck at batting.

Similarly to shooting, right handed = right shoulder. Most of the work is done by the right hand anyway

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Im pretty sure that ambidextrous is performing tasks with the same skill level on both sides, but it could also be performing different tasked with different hands, for example if you bowl left handed but bat right handed. I'm not fully sure but it's probably the first one.

Being right handed and left footed or vice versa is cross dominance.

 

[j0rdy1]

Right handed. Don't do anything with my left except I used to be able to bat left handed which I used to do in games to throw bowlers off as I swapped between right and left between balls. I throw like a prissy girl with my left.

 

[Cruyff14]

Can kick a soccer ball pretty decent with my left foot, am naturally right footed though. Everything else is done with right hand/foot.

 

[Marlowe]

Same. Yeah until you have an injury or something you never realise how hard this is!!!!!!
Something else worth trying out - when putting on a jacket, most people will always put the same arm in first, for me - the left. Try putting the other arm in first, not as easy as you would think.

Yeah, weird, right? I'm right side dominant but I instinctively put on shirts/coats/jackets/pants with my left arm/leg first.
I can only blink with my left eye too; no good with my right eye.

When I play, guitar, I can hold the notes with both hands with equal measure - but I can only play it right hand because I can't for the life of me strum with my left hand.

The only thing I can do ambidextrously is catch a ball and play tennis. Ehh... I'm not bad at batting left-handed. But my problem there is leaning forward with my right foot - any decent pace ball will **** me up too.

Overall, my entire left side is pretty uncoordinated and weak.

 

[Cruyff14]

I think you mean wink Aenimence

 

[Marlowe]

I think you mean wink Aenimence

Heheh, that I did.

 

[Black Diamond]

Right handed for pretty much everything, except when carrying something e.g. bags of groceries. For some reason I lift much better on my right than my left.

 

[Igloo]

I can only wink with my left eye too. Right eye just doesn't work.

 

[Caesar]

I was born a "molly dooker" but was forced to write right-handed at school. Really glad about that now, as it made me ambidextrous.

This seems to be pretty common amongst natural lefties above a certain age.

I am predominantly left handed, but I am all over the place with little rhyme or reason... e.g. I throw right handed, but bowl a cricket ball left handed. Some stuff I do either hand but most I prefer one or the other.

It rather annoys me when someone calls themselves ambidextrous when they really mean that they use their opposite hand for some things. If you can't write competently with both hands, then you have no right to the term IMO.

 

[Natho]

Right handed at everything.
Kick left foot, prefer to handball left handed but not a natural left handed handballer.
Can kick pretty naturally on the right thanks to missing a year with a knee. Also coaches hounded me to kick with my right. Suppose I thank them now.

 

[The Big Sticks]

I write with my left hand but I do pretty much everything else with my right. Does this make me left handed or right handed?

 

[Papa Juggs]

Caesar says it well.

You need full competence on both hands. This means writing/throwing and stuff that any non-ambi can do on their dominant hand.

 

[TurboHead]

My grandfather on my mothers side was ambidextrous, where is I am right handed for just about everything ( though for the last 10 years I have been using my computer mouse left handed to free up my right hand for keyboard or writing). My eldest son (10 years old) has been confirmed as ambidextrous and can write with both hands ( he is also kind of freeky as he can write words completely mirrored as easy as... ). Sports wise however I've found that once he picks a "hand" and his skills improve, he can't suddenly throw, kick and catch as well with the other hand..... Which suggests that you still need to learn the hand / eye coordination with both hands to have close to equal skill. He is currently playing T ball and while its hard to use both hand when fielding as you have to pick a glove to catch with and stick with it, he will often swap batting side depending on where he wants to hit the ball.

 

[TurboHead]

Also, reason we had him tested was at a young age, when drawing, we noted that he would swap drawing hands depending on what side of the page he was drawing on.... This can also be caused by issues with the brain sides communicating .... Hence the testing.