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Which hand is your dominant hand?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by GayNerd, Nov 14, 2013.

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Which hand is your dominant hand?

  1. I am right-handed.

    68.8%
  2. I am left-handed.

    19.4%
  3. I am ambidextrous.

    6.9%
  4. Other. (Specify in posts, and I highly doubt I forgot anything though. :p )

    4.9%
  1. GayNerd

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    Just curious about it. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

    I myself an left-handed. One of the few in any of my 7 classes. And I guess I did forget something, I only use my right hand for 1 thing: computer mouse. Yeah, sorry everyone! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

    What about you guys/gals?
     
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    I only use my left hand for one thing.
     
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    Ditto. My right hand is usually on the mouse...
     
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    Imma lefty :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:. It's such a pain though, I smudge ink all over my paper if I write in pen, I bump elbows with people when I write or eat, and pretty much all tools are catered to righties :/. I do like being unique though :grin:, and plus apparently lefties are more creative due to having the right hemisphere of their brain being more stimulated. I also read somewhere that left handedness is overrepresented in the gay community, with 40% of gays being lefties, leading some to believe that sexuality coorelates to handedness. Oddly-handed people unite!
     
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    My right hand is typically somewhere on my torso.
     
  6. Data

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    I am right handed. I learned how to do things with my left hand when I dislocated my right shoulder, but I was pretty terrible at writing with my left hand. I just don't have the precision, strength, and dexterity with my left hand as I do with my right.
     
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    I'm left-handed. They have a term for that--sinistrality.
     
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    Q: Is the link between left-handedness and intelligence, IQ or otherwise, fact or fiction?

    I am stunned at how many of my real smart friends are left handed. Stunned.
     
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    Cross-dominant. I write right-handed but do nearly everything else left-handed.
     
  10. Data

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    ^ That reminded me, I play hockey as if I'm left handed. I don't know why. I golf right handed and play tennis right handed. I just picked up the hockey stick and bent it (school PE sticks are universal) for my left side.
     
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    I'm left-handed, but only in writing. Throwing a ball, shooting a bow or gun, all right. Still voted left for the sake of simplicity :slight_smile:
     
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    Right handed however...I've had hand tremors since birth and it's more pronounced in my right hand, so it's quite irritating at times. Clearly i won't ever be a chemist or neurosurgeon.
     
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    I'm right handed, but want to strengthen my left hand and learn to contact juggle.
     
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    I used to be left handed when I was a kid but my mother made me write with my right hand so I wouldn't get made fun of for it, but if I tried I could be ambidextrous
     
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    I am right handed --- although I can use my left when I want too... I just don't prefer it.
     
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    I'm left handed, though I can write with my right hand, though it takes a lot of time for it to be legible. You see, I like caligraphy, but writing left handed means I end up smearing the ink, so I had to learn to use my right hand. I'm not nearly as good, but the skill can be usable sometimes.
     
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    Right

    But I gather left handed people are very much more skilled in design and spatial awareness. Eg make good architects !
     
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    I'm right handed.

    But... that's my field of study. Did I pick a wrong profession? Or am I wrong-handed? :grin:
     
  20. I write with my left hand, but do pretty much everything else with my right, including using scissors.