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How many are left handed??

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old popper

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In the thread about cursive writing, many including myself said they were leftys. I write, eat, bat, throw, and kick left handed, but shoot, and use tools (wrenches hammers etc) with my right hand.
Lets hear from the southpaws.
 
Yea, I'm in my right mind. ;)

It wasn't fashionable to be left handed in dads day, so they converted him for writing. Otherwise he was a lefty, as am I.

Paul
 
Well I am not left handed but kind of amphideterous (spelling) It drives some people nuts to watch!!!
 
It's ambidexterous, maybe I haven't spelled it correctly either. :)

Oh and I am left handed, but bat right handed and play fiddle, guitar, mandolin and bass right handed.

Really I guess the only thing I do left handed is write.

And I received a 12 inch wooden ruler as a gift for lefties with the 1 on the right and 12 on the left end. :)
 


I'm right handed, but do a few things left handed. Like shoveling, swinging a axe, and batting. Do quite a few things with either.
Something looking clumsy, my Dad shoot a gun. Left handed using his right eye to sight with.
 
Very left handed, not right handed for anything by choice. That said all the things that the world makes you do right handed come very natural to me such as hydraulic loader controls on the tractor or shifting a manual transmission. I think most leftys are pretty good at doing things with their right hand because they have to be.

Have always kicked a ball with my right foot and always wondered how many people are opposite footed from handed.
 
I write left handed, but can do so with my right hand but really slow.
When working on equipment or driving nails I can use either.

Informal trap shooting I am a lefty. But I have switched it up to a righty which really ticks off the friends and relatives when I still break more than they do.
 
I write and shoot left handed, do most other things right- musical instruments included. Like one of the posters on the cursive writing thread, I find it easy to write backwards. My Grandma was a one room school teacher, and could write on the blackboard with both hands at the same time- let's see our texting junkies do that! :wink:
 
I do most things left handed but shoot rifles right because my right eye is stronger than my left and play guitar right handed just because they're a lot easier to find and learn on than messing with left handed versions. Otherwise, throw, kick, punch, golf right.
 
In University, there was one Lecturer who wrote either left handed or right handed on the blackboard, depending on where he stood relative to location on the blackboard where he was going to write and keeping his body from blocking the view of the audience. You could not tell what he had written with his left hand from what he had written with his right hand.

Myself, I'm a righty but have trained myself to do things left handed too. I also shoot left because my right eye is inferior to my left eye.
 
I too am a lefty for virtually all activities.

Only exception is musical instruments. By design most are played "right handed" - I was forced to adapt.

Incidentally none of my 3 kids are left handed. But one of my 8 grandkids is.
 
I'm left handed, but growing up in a right handed word, I learned how to use either hand in may situations.
 
Same here. I work well with others on the working end of a fork or shovel. We can face each other and pitch in the same direction.
 
Was left handed until third grade. Teacher made me switch. Left hand got tied to the desk. Mom never said anything so I guess she didn't like it either. Can do most things either way, but write like chicken tracks with either hand. throw better right but bat better left.
 
I'm close to ambidextrous, which makes typing more difficult, as my right hand is not dominant. I always wanted to play the piano melody with my left hand- that got me out of lessons after only a couple of years. I eat, write and bat lefty, but throw, golf and kick right. I have proven to be able to drink with either or both hands.

I have a son who is completely lefty, including kicking and shooting, but golfs right. His older brother is all right, except golf. Go figure
 
was a lefty for 64 years but a stroke in 2011 determined i would become a righty. needless to say i do not write in cursive other than my name.
 
Welp, Out of eight kids, 4 were right handed and 4 left handed. That made things easier at the table.

I am the oldest and was forced to write right handed until they got tired of trying to read my scribbles, then I was allowed to write left-handed.

I'm about half and half. Write, throw, fish etc left-handed, but bat, shoot, etc right-handed. Some things I can do with equally well with either hand, like using a hammer, so that comes in handy at times.

I'm not sure if I drive a tractor left or right handed.

Larry
 
Maybe its a departure from England. They supposedly drive on the left side of the road as a carryover from the days of
knights who were mostly right handed thus allowing them to lop your head off as you came at them. Or so I hear.
 
My father did everything with his left hand except write.
Teacher tied his left hand behind the desk so he could write with his right hand.
 
I'm in my right mind so yep left handed. Back when I was in school the teachers asked my parent if they want to make me be right handed and my parents you will let him be and if you did not then you where in for trouble. Dad was a Professor at the local college in Winfield KS.
It is also said that most left handed people are dyslexic and see things backwards and try to write backwards also.
As for doing things in the shop I can use either hand depending on how I have to reach to do things
 
I do some thing left...swing a bat, hockey stick, axe. Everything else I do right handed, although I do sometimes weld left handed if it makes for better access. My Dad was a born lefty but they forced him to use his right when he went to school (try doing THAT today!) So he ended up kinda confused. It was almost impossible for him to demonstrate to me how to do tasks involving my hands. If it had been up to him to show me how to tie my shoes I would probably be barefoot today.
 
I've read that everyone in the world was born right handed, but only the most brilliant were able to overcome that handicap...I write and throw left, kick, eat and after I found my right eye was dominant, shoot both a rifle and bow right. All my life I had shot left, but after I switched over (felt really awkward at first)I broke a higher percentage of clay pigeons, and killed more red squirrels. And in my 3-D archery league, from an average score of 100 shooting left,(out of a perfect possible 200) I changed over to right and ended up averaging 170. Huge improvement!
 
Yep, I am a lefty that can swing a hammer with my right or left hand. I did it all day on our concrete forms that we were removing today. In elementary school they tried to make me right handed around 1970 but it was futile. Greg
 
I am left handed. I can hammer both left and right handed, but I won't start a nail right handed and hold it with my left. I used to help chop BBQ for our school. I used both hands but when the cleaver was in my right hand, my left hand was behind my back out of the way. Tommy
 

I'm right handed, and my wife is left handed. We have two sons, one is right handed, and the other is left handed. The one odd thing is our right handed son is left eye dominate. I never asked him how the army trained him to shoot. He qualified as expert on the rifle range though.
 
Very left handed, left eye dominate. Because of a broken left arm in 2nd grade, never learned to write cursive. Bad hand injury at 20 made me right handed. Can't throw right overhand at all. Had to learn to shoot right handed because I don't have joints in my left trigger finger. Been 40 years, learned to be right handed but it does not come natural and causes me to hesitate, has caused other injuries because of it. Typing is a mess, left wants to lead but with only the ring finger on left hand usable, gets messy. I didn't learn how to type until the kids got a computer in 1994. Still can't write cursive, just my signature, terrible penmanship. Yes, us lefties are the only ones in our right mind....James
 
Left handed for writing, driving, hammer. I bat right handed because I pitch the ball up with my left and bat with the right. Shovel with either hand mainly because dad was a lefty and unloading a wagon he wS at one and I was at the other. My parents not to convert me right handed or I would be removed from the Catholic school. I do use my right hand to start alot of nuts onto bolts.
 
Most things I can do either left or right handed. I write with my right hand but can get by lefty. I bat lefty but throw with my right. I use a scoop shovel righty but swing a sledge hammer lefty. I guess that makes me a mixed up individual

:lol:
 
Wife and I are both left handed we have 5 children not a one is left handed!!! 5 years ago was in a truck accident that left my left shoulder partially immobilized so have learned to do more with right hand!!!
 
Dale my oldest granddaughter is a lefty. When she started in cosmetology school the new students were offered a starter kit of professional tools at a cut rate price for the school. The kit was nice but it had a right handed shears (scissors). She had to order a left handed shear at her expense. It kind of torqued me off but the school wouldn't budge.
 
Left handed writer, hammer, wrenches, shovel. Right eye dominant shooter, golfer. Start nuts and bolts right handed. I guess I still haven't decided which way to go. Alot of other things I can do either hand.
 
Lefty except for hitting baseball and golf. I can wrench either way. My right arm is stronger than my left for some reason, has been since I can remember.
 
here is one for ya -- I am right handed but my left glove wears out first--the bird finger no less -- never have figured that one out -- Roy
 
Now that you mention it my right glove is always wearing out first usually holes on the finger tips and the seam of the thumb. Have a pile of food spare lefts lol. Being left handed is OK with me
 

Some things are based on your dominate eye... Shooting and batting should be done with the "strong" eye irregardless of being left or right handed.

I do left for everything.. except.... my right ear works better than my left.
 
I do everything left except swing a golf club and I've never even been on a course (when I was younger my sisters boyfriend at the time was trying to get me to play golf and I've got a million and a half better or more important things to do) I do a lot of wrenching with my right mainly to save my good hand for being busted up. I also grip and twist a lot of things with my right hand because it has a stronger grip because of breaking and dislocating different bones and joint several times (now that I think about it it's amazing how much I try to protect my left). Another thing I do that several people think is odd is when I write I turn my paper counter clockwise 90 degrees and write south to north instead of the typical west to east and everyone says I write like a girl which I will admit it's fairly neat and legible but it has definite drawbacks.....my fianc? is making me address all the wedding invitations for June! Time to turn the sloppy on!
 
I am ambidextrous doing most anything . Driving a nail,using a hand saw or wrenching .Shoot right or left.Bat left or right but only throw right handed and write left handed.
 
Southpaw here. I don't write with a hook either. Mom would not allow it.

Do a lot of things right handed too, just because the world is laid out for righties - but just remember that we lefties are said to be the only ones in our right mind. ;)
 
I am a right handed person. With that being said my parents were both lefties. Six children and all right handed. The odd thing is I tie my shoes backwards , wife says my loops are made backwards. Must of been my mothers influence on tying my shoes.
 
Left handed, and left eyed, but I can do most things right handed, I call it Andy-dexterous. Handy working on equipment and welding. By the way, I can't use left handed scissors, I like my left hand to guide the work. Left arm and hand are stronger from blacksmithing. Never hold my tongs in my left hand.

So the incidence of left handedness is about 10% of the general population. However, 30% of world leaders, statesmen, and scientists are left handed. And 90% of those in asylums are left handed. So you can draw your own conclusions.
 
RBnSC,

I also bat and shoot right handed, and cut right handed with knives or scissors too... I think because my parents taught me to do things the "rightie" way. :)
 


My kids were discussing being right or left handed one day at the dinner table. One of the kids mentioned a kid in his class who could write with either hand. My wife asked, "What do you call it when you write with both hands?" NY 5 year old at the time grand daughter answers, "Scribbling?" :D
 
I'm discriminated against too. The world was set up against me. It is all right and I'm all left. I can do a lot of things with my right hand though. I teasingly tell people I am discriminated against since I am left handed and not Catholic since Fridays are fish night,I hate fish. It comes back up as fast as it goes down.
 
My wife is right handed, but comes from a family of lefties. Her Dad, grandma and sister were all left handed. I am right handed also, but our oldest daughter is left handed. She married a left handed guy and their oldest son is left handed.
 
Both of my brothers are left handed, There are no other left handers in our mother's or father's families, but one of our grand mothers was born left handed but forced to convert to right handed at a very early age. Curious thing I guess. I personally found being "wrong handed" by our society to be a pretty minor handicap....I can do more right handed than most right handers can do left handed, like drive nails and write and print legibly......and being ambidextrous and able to swing a ball bat or golf club either handed is sometimes an advantage......but never made me any money.
 
(quoted from post at 08:15:19 12/15/15)
Computer mouse, drive, hockey stick, dinner fork and axe left. Write with right.
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Interesting, I never thought about the mouse. I started work in 1971 using a calculator (15 digit Marchant with back transfer, wooo!) with my right hand, and recording results with my left. My boss loved it, everyone else was constantly picking up and putting down their pencil. That transformed into using the mouse and computer keyboard right handed to keep my left free to write. Now that has all passed, seldom need to write while using a computer.
 
I've been accused of eating with both hands at the same time. Does that make me ambidextrous? LOL!!?

Scott
 
(quoted from post at 18:28:06 12/17/15) Both of my brothers are left handed, There are no other left handers in our mother's or father's families, but one of our grand mothers was born left handed but forced to convert to right handed at a very early age. Curious thing I guess. I personally found being "wrong handed" by our society to be a pretty minor handicap....I can do more right handed than most right handers can do left handed, like drive nails and write and print legibly......and being ambidextrous and able to swing a ball bat or golf club either handed is sometimes an advantage......but never made me any money.
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My supertitious signs and omens Grand Father while we were parlour milking cows started to give me a blast one day. Cows on one side could have their teats washed from the front with the right hand. On the other side Of the parlour instead of using the left hand. Grandfather thought it was proper to use the right hand from behind where there was a greater chance of getting kicked while reaching around an awkward located steel pipe.
Made that case to him but he muttered that it wasn't proper. Now as a kid we usually respected our elders but his eyes went wide and he went quiet during the following conversation about using common sense. He pretty much quit talking about phases of the moon, sun dogs, moon dogs, etc after that as well.
 
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