How many of us are left handed ?

[Guest]

I know there are several of us who are lefthand, how many others are there ?

[adt70hk]

Junior is usually..... At least for writing and painting. But put a bat, club or racket in his hand and he's right handed. He shares this trait with my wife.

Apparently only about 11% of the world's population is left handed and apparently only 1% is ambidextrous.

I'm sure if he counts as truly ambidextrous as he cannot write right-handed.

As a slight aside, he's also a red head, as some of you know, which only 4% of the English population is.

So in if you combine the too he is very unusual....

[spanner570]

Now't but weirdo's.

Shouldn't be allowed out!

[stillp]

To quote the great Irish snooker player Dennis Taylor "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous"!
Pete

[Jim R]

I'm right handed.

[outrunner]

I am left handed.

Andy.

[Andy T]

I'm left handed, as is my wife.

Our lad can quite comfortably switch from using his (right handed) PC in his bedroom to our left handed set up downstairs, but wouldn't say he's fully ambidextrous.

[stillp]

I'm right-handed. I used to use the computer mouse with my left hand so I could use my right for the keyboard - my one-finger typing was faster with the right hand. However a major project to digitise and automate a product catalogue involved so much precise mouse work that I ended up with a trapped nerve in my left shoulder, and my left hand would go completely numb. I was a smoker in those days, and I realised I needed medical help when a cigarette in my left hand burned down between my fingers, but the first I knew of it was when I smelt burning flesh!
This was nearly 30 years ago but I still have to perform stretching exercises with my left arm.
The digital catalogue worked very well, but then the parent company changed all the products so it was soon obsolete. :angry:
Pete

[Dave Ward]

Right handed - although I have learned to use my left hand more, when my OA kicks in.............
In past days - in my late teens - being asked if you were a 'left hander' was an enquiry if you were Catholic - no idea where that comes from, or if it was meant to be abusive.
Dave

[boatman]

WELL im mostly right handed to build models but on my keyboard im left handed to press the buttons on my pc so im a bit of each really an my wife jen fully left handed but im glad this has been brought up as regards myself usein both hands ive never really noticed it fasinatitin EH
Chrisb

[boatman]

Now't but weirdo's.

Shouldn't be allowed out!

SO 570 i gather you are right handed then ? on your brilliant models you build
chrisb

[Mr Bowcat]

I'm right handed, and in no way ambidextrous. At a recent shooting club competition we were made to shoot 5 rounds from our normal side, then 5 rounds from the other shoulder. In my normal shooting position the rifle is an extension of my body, from the "wrong" side it was a weird alien machine that I was hanging on to. Weird.

[boatman]

Now't but weirdo's.

Shouldn't be allowed out!

WELL 570 JEN is left handed COR its just as well i havnt let her see this lol :rolling: :smiling2::smiling2::smiling2: she'd be spittin bullets lol
chrisb

[Tim Marlow]

I’m right handed, but have some left hand tendencies. I eat left or right handed with no preference, for example, and playing football as a kid each foot was as strong as the other. I’ve also taught myself to use a paint brush with either hand when decorating. Sometimes cutting in an edge using your left hand can be so much easier……
I’ve only ever known two genuinely ambidextrous people though.
One was a maths teacher. He would write on the blackboard with one hand, walk to the other side of the board while answering a question, then, completely unconsciously, continue writing with the other hand. Quite disconcerting the first time you saw it as a kid. His handwriting was identical with either hand, by the way.
The other was a guy I worked with. Quite a consummate guitarist, he could play as well left handed as he could right handed……we always thought he’d look cool with a double neck guitar, one neck out of each side

[Gern]

I'm ambisinister - b****y useless with both hands! But like Tim, there are a few things I can do with either hand - like lifting a pint glass and drinking from it!