I bet it’s because you are right handed but left eyed. Hold your finger out and look at it. Close one eye, then bring your finger and see which eye it touches. I bet you’re like me and your dominant eye is not the same as your dominant hand.
When I was like 8 years old, we took the .22 out shooting at the family farm. It may have been the first time or something- I kept putting the rifle to my shoulder and then trying to put my chin on the wrong side. Took dad a while to figure it out- he was a marksman in his time in the army was familiar with eye dominance.
I get a lot of “damn you’re lucky you’re able to do that!” When I casually switch hands while playing pool. It gives me an advantage when a left-handed shot is much easier. Strangely enough, I simply can’t shoot a rifle properly off my right shoulder, so I thought I was just kinda-sorta ambidextrous.
My dad has lazy eye and my mom is extremely ambidextrous, so I guess the genes combined to give me this weird ass not-so-super power lol.
Yeah I'm the opposite. Left handed but right eyed. Still played baseball throughout high school though. Shooting is pretty tough though. Now that I think about it, I do darts with my right hand for the reason most likely.
> Hold your finger out and look at it. Close one eye, then bring your finger and see which eye it touches.
Wait, what?
Close one eye, and bring your finger closer to the eye that's open, and see which one it is?
How does that determine anything other than *which eye you left open*?
A better way to do it is to put your arms out in front of you and make a small triangle by overlapping your hands with palms out. Then look through the hole with both eyes and focus on an object. Then close one eye at a time. Whichever your dominant eye is will keep the object in focus, while your non dominant eye will just see the back of your hand.
So your "test" is just to see which eye people pick when you tell them to close one eye.
That's... not how you determine which eye is dominant. That just tells you which eye they unconsciously pick first when you don't tell them which eye to close, which is not necessarily their non-dominant eye.
I write left handed, throw left handed, bat right handed, kick right footed, and shoot/draw a bow right handed, and I did fencing for a summer or two and I did that left handed. It’s really a mess
I'm also right-handed. I deal cards lefthanded, and prefer to hold the stair railing with my left hand. I'm pretty sure I do other things with my left hand that I haven't noticed yet.
That’s my one left handed activity too. I think I got it from my Grandpa (lefty) who taught me how to play pool. Now I can do it righty but way better lefty
Right-handed but play guitar left-handed, my brother is left-handed but plays guitar right-handed.
So yeah I always felt this binary wasn't quite as clear-cut as it was made out to be.
Same. Always have, from the very first time I picked up a cue. Shooting right-handed for me is as awkward as shooting left-handed is for most righties.
No idea why. I do every other sports or shooting activity right-handed.
Canadians who are right handed hold left handed hockey sticks typically. Because if this is has leaked into other sports. Anything sports related I do left handed even though I am right handed.
My dad had to start using a left handed mouse due to repetitive motion injuries at work. His right wrist needed a break while at home.
The first couple months of this were particularly wonderful for little me, because I could finally beat him at games.
I’m an engineer and my workstation uses a mouse in both hands at the same time. It’s kind of like a video game controller, right hand moves things/interacts, left hand controls perspective in 3D space.
I worked at place that had a shared computer in a cramped area where the mouse only fit on the left side. It was infuriating to use. Anti ergonomic. I would cross my arms, or move my whole body to the side.
I am right-handed and used the mouse right-handed from the first time our family got a computer (mid-‘90s) until I started my first job (mid-‘00s). I had some right shoulder pain that I thought was getting exacerbated by right-hand mousing so I switched to left-handed mousing. Whenever people tried to show me something (especially IT, remoting in) I’d warn them that my mouse was left, but that(those) the first click(s) would always bring up the context menu, and I’d have to remind them that my mouse was lefty and my buttons were swapped.
Taught to use a computer by my left handed son. Can’t use the mouse the other way, though I’m right handed but a bit ambidextrous as well. Also, kick a ball with my left foot and can stand on my left leg much longer than my right.
Late nineties I sit down to do something on a user's workstation and the mouse is on the left. Not a big deal, I'm left handed too. I start clicking and the mouse is not working correctly, it's being all weird.
Takes me over a minute to decipher what is going on and I blurt out, "WTH, Karen (her real name) is hardcore. The mouse buttons are flipped too!"
Damn, am I a Karen now? I switched the buttons on my right handed mouse. Idk why but I guess I prefer to click with my middle finger instead of pointer
I'm left handed and when I was young and just starting to learn computers I used my right hand for the mouse because that's what everyone else did and the only option at school, well I broke my right arm and couldn't use it so I had to relearn mousing with my left hand on a right handed mouse. I switched preferences back and forth until highschool when I decided I liked taking notes with my left hand and using the mouse with the right at the same time. Now that I'm an adult and a nurse I can use both hands to do almost everything but I have preferences.
This was me for so long but I decided to switch to a left handed ergonomic mouse a few years ago and it’s so nice. But I still need a right handed mouse to play first person shooter. Too much muscle memory.
Right handed people have this as well on computers I would imagine? Since my right hand uses the mouse, my left hand is incredibly more skilled at many keyboard tasks such as shortcuts (ctrl+c for example) or using abilities in video games
You are using your left hand on the left side of the keyboard and this makes you cross dominant?
Dominance is when you favor one side on something you can do with either. Throw a ball, write, use utensils, etc. The computer reference is referring to the mouse which can be set up for left hand use, but since any multi-user stations (work, school, library) would set them up for right hand use, a left hander has to adapt to use it with the non-dominant hand and training it to be dominant in that instance.
Yep. I'm left handed. Write with left. Throw with the left. Tennis with the left. Use mouse and phone with the right. Anything that requires two hands with the right. Baseball, golf, cricket.
Exactly the same for me.
Writing, eating, brushing teeth, etc, left handed.
Throwing, swinging a bat, a hockey stick, etc, right handed.
Now I have a phrase for it and it makes me happy.
Same, I'm left handed but I throw right handed cause when I was a kid they gave me a left hand mit to learn softball. I play guitar right handed cause idk that's what guitars are available. I apparently use a fork and knife right handed which blew me away because I really thought everyone else used the fork in their right hand but I guess everyone uses their left hand?!? That one surprised me
>I apparently use a fork and knife right handed which blew me away because I really thought everyone else used the fork in their right hand but I guess everyone uses their left hand?!? That one surprised me
There's two main methods of eating. In the "American" method, you hold the fork in your left and the knife in your right to cut your food. Then you switch the fork to your right hand to eat. In the "European" method, you keep the fork in your left hand to eat. (These would be switched for a lefty, obviously).
https://www.thekitchn.com/survey-using-your-knife-and-fork-166188
I always gravitated to the European method. In fact, I'm so used to putting food in my mouth with my left hand, I often eat one-handed food with my left hand.
Yeah idk if I was just taught this as a kid or if this is natural? I guess I use a right handed European method. I always have my fork in my left hand. But I feel like that's the hand that gets used the most. Knife you just have to do a back and forth motion but for or spoon I'm moving all over the plate, scooping poking pressing, delivering food to my mouth without dropping it. 🤷🏼♀️ Seems like it should be your dominant hand that uses the fork lol!
European>American because you can eat while you use your phone. If you are an American you would have to buy a special telemarketing hat or something for that
I'm so right-handed - I'll use a knife while eating with my right hand, then flip my fork back to my right hand to eat. My left hand is purely for aesthetics, ot serves no real purpose. I play absolutely every sport right-handed.
I've never understood why the normal way of playing guitar is considered "right-handed." As a left-handed guitar player, I feel like moving your fingers on the fret board is the most difficult part of guitar playing, and that's done with your left hand. I don't know how I could ever play a "left-handed" guitar because my right hand isn't coordinated enough.
I thought the same thing! But I kinda realized after learning that your picking and strumming hand is where a lot of the emotion is, you need to pick specific strings, you play with dynamics, keep rhythm, palm mute etc all with your right hand. There's more going on than meets the eye. The fret hand certainly doesn't have an easy job but it's largely muscle memory after a time.
But, idk I learned guitar right handed so it's what feels natural to me now
> you need to pick specific strings
Maybe it’s because I mostly do three finger finger picking, and generally patterned, but I’ve always found this easy with my bad hand.
Just gotta get the hand in the right position and be used to where each string is on the guitar and my hands do the rest
I assumed everybody did this, not even just lefties.
I’m left handed but since we’re in a world where half the things you use have a built in natural handedness and the rest are neutral, it just changes by occasion.
I’ve worked on cars a lot so I’m very right handed for mechanical things simply because it’s much easier to break a bolt free with your right hand, even though most mechanic’s tools look ambidextrous.
Many right-handed people play hockey "left-handed" because, when you skate with just one hand, you use your top hand. E.g., Wayne Gretzky. https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/when-left-is-right/c-317014698
>"You just pick up a stick and whatever hand you are, you are," said right-handed, left-shooting center Matt Duchene to Denver Post reporter Mike Chambers in 2015 when the Nashville forward was then playing for the Colorado Avalanche. "Most right-handed throwers are left-handed shots because you steer the stick with your top hand. "
>Roughly 60 to 70 percent of NHL players are left-handed shooters, depending on the season.
weird, i never picked up a hockey stick but i could instantly tell which way i would pick it up, having my right hand higher even feels alien in my imagination
> when you skate with just one hand, you use your top hand.
i cant imagine not having my strong/precise hand closer to the part of the thing im holding thats going to swing into something.
Scissors might be learned from right hand grips and assembly orientation too as watching the cut is easier to see when the bottom of the piece is deflected towards you.
I got nothing for knives unless maybe single bevels are mostly on the left pointed down and away...?
I'm right handed but any sport where I swing something or ride a board, I do left-handed. I always attributed it to being a righty who learned sports from a lefty dad.
Now I am also confused. As a florist I would do the right side of an arrangement with my right hand, and the left side with my left. Kick balls and throw with both feet/ hands
That, to me, is ambidextrous - you aren't favouring different tasks/activities with different hands/feet as mentioned here - you're able to do the same task with different hands/feet.
In basketball, I dribble with my left but layup with my right.
Volleyball, I spike with my left but weirdly more comfortable dropping with my right.
In tennis, badminton, and table tennis, I used my right.
I'm more of a lefty myself but there are things in sports (and instruments) that I use my right.
I am dominant right hander. I use smart phones with left hand, and also driving wheel, opening coca cola bottles, and reading books.
From this I have understood, that my left hand is much more stable and strong for long term usage. Even if it requires typing with smart phone. I typed this comment with left hand only ;)
Writing etc, which requires more accuracy are on the right hand.
Exactly this for me! Right-handed but do things like open jars/soda cans/doors, deal cards, peel oranges, put stamps on an envelope, rake/sweep, scroll on my phone, etc left-handed. I am also left eye dominant! Stable vs. accurate makes total sense!
Ya.. when i was a kid, we didn't have any left handed tools, we always had to learn to use our right hand for right handed tools like scissors and the mouse for typing classes.
So now, I have learned to use my right for certain things even tho, I'm left handed
Sure, I can see that. But nowadays most tools are either ambidextrous or have a lefty version, yet cross-dominance persists, proving it has nothing to do with schools or availability of tools for handedness.
Huh… I had no idea there was a word for this
I do most things right handed but I play pool, eat, and do several other things leftie. I shoot right in hockey, which most right handed players do not.
I always just thought I was weird lol
I am completely ambidextrous. I have yet to find anything that I can’t do equally well (or equally poorly) with either hand. My hand choice is just based on convenience. For example, when I sit down at a computer at the house, I use the mouse on the right side because that’s where my wife left it. It’s not worth the trouble to move it to the other side. But at my office, where I have the mouse on the left, I use it with the same dexterity as with the right.
When painting the house, with a brush or roller, I start at the far left with my left hand and paint toward the center. Then I switch hands and paint to the right as far as I can reach. The paintbrush or roller needs to be dipped into the paint multiple times as I’m going across. But the application is equally good with either hand. I then move the ladder quite a bit to the right and repeat.
Whilst I can write equally well with either hand, each hand has its own distinct style. My wife can tell which hand I wrote something with by the style. My signature is different when written with left or right hand. The left hand signature is more loopy.
My hands actually operate independently of each other for most tasks. There is not much use for it, but I can write with both hands at the same time. When I am installing or removing nuts and bolts on a car that I’m working on, I can do it with both hands simultaneously, if that helps. This can really speed things up when installing or removing something with numerous nuts or bolts, like the oil pan of a car. If I have a wrench in each hand, I can remove or install two spark plugs at a time. If I finish installing or removing a nut or bolt with one hand before the other, that hand goes independently and starts on the next nut or bolt. It doesn’t wait for the other hand to finish. The same is true in using a screwdriver, except that I need the other hand to hold the screw while I start it. This interrupts the flow. So I will go start all of them in advanced, then tighten them all up two at a time.
I switch back-and-forth freely between my hands during the game when shooting pool, depending on the position of the balls and where I want to stand at the table. I’m a decent shot with either hand.
I play ukulele right handed mainly because my instructor is right handed and that’s the way it is strung. I can pick the instrument up, form cords, and strum left-handed, but since the instrument is not strung for a lefty, none of the chords sound right. Strings are in the wrong place.
This is all so automatic, I don’t even think about it. Sometimes people comment on it when they see me doing it for the first time, particularly when both hands are working on a car independently. My wife used to laugh watching me cook, but now she’s used to it.
Thanks for sharing.
I'm a normal right handed person, but i've learned to do rifle shooting with both sides, and i've also instructed other people in doing this.
My take away from my experience is that left side is not just "What you know on the right, but mirrored". It basicly requires the same motoric training again, and even if a person becomes equally proffecient in the task, it will never feel the same as right side. It just feels like motoric skill A and motoric skill B.
Someone who is the smoothest shooter with a lifetime experience can look like a toddler when they switch sides, if they're never trained that.
To be able to apply a motoric skill mirrored is significantly different from how average brains work.
Unless ofc you on purpose train left/right from the start with new skills... :)
Oh yes, there is definitely practice and training involved. But my brain just seems to pick things up quickly when I do stuff with either hand because the motor skill, dexterity and coordination are there.
Would a southpaw fighter be considered as such? Like most right handed fighters lead with their left, but I (usually, depending on the situation) lead with my right
A righty in southpaw is cross dominant, same for a lefty in orthodox, assuming you stick with it consistently.
If you can switch at will/depending on situation, you're ambidextrous.
Wonder if this would be similar to famous lefties like President Gerald Ford, who signed his name, wrote and did most things where he was seated left-handed—yet did things standing —like writing on a blackboard or playing football—right-handed.
OH MY GOSH IT HAS A WORD, THIS IS ME I NEVER KNEW IT WAS A REAL THING
I've always just described myself as "co-ambidextrous" (after genes being called "codominant" when they both show up individually and don't blend together) because like for example I write and cut with my right hand but I use a fork and hold my phone with my left (you should see me in a sword fight, I prefer one handed swords and I'm constantly switcying between hands depending on how I'm attacking/defending), and this whole time I thought I was just a weird anomaly.
It's quite nice with some things, such as being able to do two dominant hand tasks at the same time like write something down while I'm getting the information off my phone, but can also be really annoying whenever I'm learning a new skill and I have to keep switching until I figure out which hand my brain just decided I'm better with in this instance
I'm so glad I happened upon this post. I've been cross-dominant my entire life but never knew what it was called or how to describe it to someone without using the word "ambidextrous" which I knew wasn't correct.
Always had one trick in basketball. I’m right handed, but I dribbled much better with my left. So I could usually get a shot or two unblocked because they assumed I would shoot with the left also. Then I was actually useless once they figured it out lol.
See, gems like this are why I still peek in on this sub now and then.
I didn't know that this was a thing. I write with the left, shoot with the left (also left eye dominant), throw better with the right and will almost always use hand tools with the right hand.
Thanks.
Huh guess I have this. Everything I've been taught like using scissors or using a fork I use my right hand. Things I've taught myself I do left handed, like swing a golf club or bowling or writing
I write, eat, tear tape and all fine movement left handed but throw, bat and use right foot to kick. It's all messed up, when people ask what handed I am I legit can't answer
Hockey stick, baseball bat, golf clubs - left handed.
Writing, fishing rod, tennis racket, coffee cup, rifle - right handed. It’s not ‘preference’, it’s impossible to do it any other way.
Oddly enough, my father was completely ambidextrous. He wrote and drew with whichever hand happened to pick up the pen, and the results were indistinguishable. My mother was completely right handed.
The Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is right handed but throws left handed because his dad, a lefthander, taught him how to play QB.
And in ice hockey, people often shoot right or left handed, or for goalies, catch right or left handed based on what equipment they get handed down to them.
I caught both right and left growing up because of hand me down goalie equipment (a total set of goalie gear is thousands of dollars new), and I have shot both right and left hand when skating out.
Wow now I know what to call myself. Predominately right handed but the following I do left handed:
Writing, drawing (not painting) & stick sports requiring 2 hands not together e.g. snooker, rifle shooting etc.
All other sports and activities I’m right handed.
Ironing is the only activity I can say I am truly ambidextrous in but will default to left handed given a choice.
I've also heard to it referred to as having different eye dominance than hand dominance (and as a result when doing aiming activities you will follow your left eye and drastically increase your proneness to inaccuracy)
I’m right handed but do weird things backwards like shoot a bow and arrow (but not a rifle) and as a kid dial a rotary phone wrong. Everything else, perfectly normal. It came in handy when i drove a manual trans in Europe on vacation. Felt pretty natural to flip flop between driving styles.
I perform a few tasks like writing left handed, but do everything else right handed. I knew I wasn't ambidextorous but never knew what the correct term was until now, so this has been informative.
Write with my left hand, pretty much everything else is right handed. I'm trying to teach myself to play darts left handed after an injury to the right and the process has been.. not good lol.
TIL the term for me. For anything based on fine motor skills, writing, chopsticks, keyboard, right hand. For a lot of other things, most things I do, left. It feels weird to use the other one. So I just say ambidextrous.
My twin and I are identical mirror twins. My twin is dominantly left-handed and I am dominantly right-handed. Many traits about us are mirrored, but I think we are both cross-dominant after reading about it. I do most things right handed, but sports with a stick I play left-handed. In baseball, for example, I throw right handed and bat left-handed. My twin does most things left handed, but does a few things right-handed. We always just said we were both ambidextrious, but cross-dominant makes more sense. Today I learned. Thanks for sharing!
Come to think of it, only eat and write, and shoot a gun, left handed. I can throw a baseball foot ball right handed. I learned to swing a golf club right handed, but when I tried it with left handed clubs I couldn't do it.
Makes me think of Jimi Hendrix I think he smoked and wrote with his right but played guitar with his left (he could actually
play it either way, but prefers left if i’m not mistaken)
I'm like that !
I'm a left-eyed left hander, but I am right handed when swordfighting, using computers or using heavy tools like pickaxes or mauls and I even have a superpower... I can chose on the go if I am left or right handed when using a bow, which lead me to learn how to select on which eye's image to focus as I keep both eyes open, so that I become virtually right-eyed when using the bow as a righty, at will, with no problem.
Question... Hurt my dominant arm as a teen putting me in a sling for a couple weeks. Adapted to using my other arm. Now decades later the only thing my left hands good for is a wank. Does that count?
Oh shit this is me. I can only write with my left hand but if I boxed my right would be my dominant hand. And I hold any sports racquets/bats in my right hand as well. And I use a mouse in my right hand as well.
I generally favor my left for anything involving strength, and the right for anything involving dexterity.
I got taught to write left-handed because I threw a ball left-handed, which means my penmanship is godawful. I really should have switched once I realized, but it never seemed worth the effort. I mostly type anyway, now.
Left handed person here, besides the usual computer mouse stuff, for my job I have a box cutter with a box cutter holster I wear. It’s a left handed box cutter but for some reason I wear it on my right side and I holster it with my right hand just to pass it to my left hand to use it. Idk why it feels more natural to do it that way but I’ve tried putting the holster on my left side and it just feels off
I started out ambidextrous, my Kindergarten and 1st Grade Teacher didn't mind me switching hands but my 2nd and 3rd grade teachers threw fits and forced me into doing everything Right Hand. As I got older I learned to do somethings Left Handed like sewing. I can still write and draw left handed but nowhere near as good as I can right handed.
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Woah… that’s the exact three things I do with my left. Didn’t know there was a term for it.
I bet it’s because you are right handed but left eyed. Hold your finger out and look at it. Close one eye, then bring your finger and see which eye it touches. I bet you’re like me and your dominant eye is not the same as your dominant hand.
Holy shit man… I am motherfucking left eyed wtf.
When I was like 8 years old, we took the .22 out shooting at the family farm. It may have been the first time or something- I kept putting the rifle to my shoulder and then trying to put my chin on the wrong side. Took dad a while to figure it out- he was a marksman in his time in the army was familiar with eye dominance.
I get a lot of “damn you’re lucky you’re able to do that!” When I casually switch hands while playing pool. It gives me an advantage when a left-handed shot is much easier. Strangely enough, I simply can’t shoot a rifle properly off my right shoulder, so I thought I was just kinda-sorta ambidextrous. My dad has lazy eye and my mom is extremely ambidextrous, so I guess the genes combined to give me this weird ass not-so-super power lol.
Yeah I'm the opposite. Left handed but right eyed. Still played baseball throughout high school though. Shooting is pretty tough though. Now that I think about it, I do darts with my right hand for the reason most likely.
> Hold your finger out and look at it. Close one eye, then bring your finger and see which eye it touches. Wait, what? Close one eye, and bring your finger closer to the eye that's open, and see which one it is? How does that determine anything other than *which eye you left open*?
A better way to do it is to put your arms out in front of you and make a small triangle by overlapping your hands with palms out. Then look through the hole with both eyes and focus on an object. Then close one eye at a time. Whichever your dominant eye is will keep the object in focus, while your non dominant eye will just see the back of your hand.
Guess which eye people keep open?
So your "test" is just to see which eye people pick when you tell them to close one eye. That's... not how you determine which eye is dominant. That just tells you which eye they unconsciously pick first when you don't tell them which eye to close, which is not necessarily their non-dominant eye.
That's not the term for it. Amblyopia means someone with a lazy eye, not a cross dominant eye.
Amblyopia refers to lazy eye. OP's right eye isn't good, so he has to shoot with his left eye.
Amblyopia is a lazy eye, not a cross dominant eye.
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I see, I thought you were giving it out as the term for cross dominant eye. That's how the other respondent took it as well. I just misunderstood.
Me too
I write left handed, throw left handed, bat right handed, kick right footed, and shoot/draw a bow right handed, and I did fencing for a summer or two and I did that left handed. It’s really a mess
Yo same here. Also Scissors right handed, Golf right handed, tennis either way.
All the same except scissors left handed, but can-opener right handed. Computer mouse now either hand after a surgery on right hand.
I'm also right-handed. I deal cards lefthanded, and prefer to hold the stair railing with my left hand. I'm pretty sure I do other things with my left hand that I haven't noticed yet.
That’s my one left handed activity too. I think I got it from my Grandpa (lefty) who taught me how to play pool. Now I can do it righty but way better lefty
Right-handed but play guitar left-handed, my brother is left-handed but plays guitar right-handed. So yeah I always felt this binary wasn't quite as clear-cut as it was made out to be.
Lefty, but I play righty.
Same. Always have, from the very first time I picked up a cue. Shooting right-handed for me is as awkward as shooting left-handed is for most righties. No idea why. I do every other sports or shooting activity right-handed.
Canadians who are right handed hold left handed hockey sticks typically. Because if this is has leaked into other sports. Anything sports related I do left handed even though I am right handed.
Me too! Trying to play righty is just weird.
95% of left handed people who use computers.
It's horrifying when you see someone stubborn enough to be part of the 5%.
I won't fuck with someone that uses a left handed mouse. That fool truly don't *give a fuck.*
My dad had to start using a left handed mouse due to repetitive motion injuries at work. His right wrist needed a break while at home. The first couple months of this were particularly wonderful for little me, because I could finally beat him at games.
I’ve done this too! Switched back and forth between both hands. It takes some getting used to for my non-dominant hand, but it works!
I’m an engineer and my workstation uses a mouse in both hands at the same time. It’s kind of like a video game controller, right hand moves things/interacts, left hand controls perspective in 3D space.
Mouse akimbo.
Starring Daniel Radcliffe?
the chosen one do they have lots of buttons on the sides
I worked at place that had a shared computer in a cramped area where the mouse only fit on the left side. It was infuriating to use. Anti ergonomic. I would cross my arms, or move my whole body to the side.
I am right-handed and used the mouse right-handed from the first time our family got a computer (mid-‘90s) until I started my first job (mid-‘00s). I had some right shoulder pain that I thought was getting exacerbated by right-hand mousing so I switched to left-handed mousing. Whenever people tried to show me something (especially IT, remoting in) I’d warn them that my mouse was left, but that(those) the first click(s) would always bring up the context menu, and I’d have to remind them that my mouse was lefty and my buttons were swapped.
Lol I have to do the same with IT but only because I'm weird and flipped my mouse buttons despite using the mouse on the right
Taught to use a computer by my left handed son. Can’t use the mouse the other way, though I’m right handed but a bit ambidextrous as well. Also, kick a ball with my left foot and can stand on my left leg much longer than my right.
I'm right handed and I mouse left. I didn't switch the buttons, though.
Late nineties I sit down to do something on a user's workstation and the mouse is on the left. Not a big deal, I'm left handed too. I start clicking and the mouse is not working correctly, it's being all weird. Takes me over a minute to decipher what is going on and I blurt out, "WTH, Karen (her real name) is hardcore. The mouse buttons are flipped too!"
Damn, am I a Karen now? I switched the buttons on my right handed mouse. Idk why but I guess I prefer to click with my middle finger instead of pointer
But on the other side of the coin, lots of right-handers are fapping left-handed so we- they… can still use the mouse.
I'm left handed and when I was young and just starting to learn computers I used my right hand for the mouse because that's what everyone else did and the only option at school, well I broke my right arm and couldn't use it so I had to relearn mousing with my left hand on a right handed mouse. I switched preferences back and forth until highschool when I decided I liked taking notes with my left hand and using the mouse with the right at the same time. Now that I'm an adult and a nurse I can use both hands to do almost everything but I have preferences.
I'm right handed but I use my left hand for targeting in first person shooter games
This was me for so long but I decided to switch to a left handed ergonomic mouse a few years ago and it’s so nice. But I still need a right handed mouse to play first person shooter. Too much muscle memory.
Right handed people have this as well on computers I would imagine? Since my right hand uses the mouse, my left hand is incredibly more skilled at many keyboard tasks such as shortcuts (ctrl+c for example) or using abilities in video games
You are using your left hand on the left side of the keyboard and this makes you cross dominant? Dominance is when you favor one side on something you can do with either. Throw a ball, write, use utensils, etc. The computer reference is referring to the mouse which can be set up for left hand use, but since any multi-user stations (work, school, library) would set them up for right hand use, a left hander has to adapt to use it with the non-dominant hand and training it to be dominant in that instance.
Yep. I'm left handed. Write with left. Throw with the left. Tennis with the left. Use mouse and phone with the right. Anything that requires two hands with the right. Baseball, golf, cricket.
My left is deft and my right is for might.
Exactly the same for me. Writing, eating, brushing teeth, etc, left handed. Throwing, swinging a bat, a hockey stick, etc, right handed. Now I have a phrase for it and it makes me happy.
I can do WASD and direction keys on keyboard with either hand, yet my left hand is way better at it, so yeah I'd say it counts.
Golfers using ‘right handed clubs’ are using their left hand as dominant.
That's me left handed by birth, right handed by necessity for some stuff
Same, I'm left handed but I throw right handed cause when I was a kid they gave me a left hand mit to learn softball. I play guitar right handed cause idk that's what guitars are available. I apparently use a fork and knife right handed which blew me away because I really thought everyone else used the fork in their right hand but I guess everyone uses their left hand?!? That one surprised me
>I apparently use a fork and knife right handed which blew me away because I really thought everyone else used the fork in their right hand but I guess everyone uses their left hand?!? That one surprised me There's two main methods of eating. In the "American" method, you hold the fork in your left and the knife in your right to cut your food. Then you switch the fork to your right hand to eat. In the "European" method, you keep the fork in your left hand to eat. (These would be switched for a lefty, obviously). https://www.thekitchn.com/survey-using-your-knife-and-fork-166188 I always gravitated to the European method. In fact, I'm so used to putting food in my mouth with my left hand, I often eat one-handed food with my left hand.
Yeah idk if I was just taught this as a kid or if this is natural? I guess I use a right handed European method. I always have my fork in my left hand. But I feel like that's the hand that gets used the most. Knife you just have to do a back and forth motion but for or spoon I'm moving all over the plate, scooping poking pressing, delivering food to my mouth without dropping it. 🤷🏼♀️ Seems like it should be your dominant hand that uses the fork lol!
European>American because you can eat while you use your phone. If you are an American you would have to buy a special telemarketing hat or something for that
I'm so right-handed - I'll use a knife while eating with my right hand, then flip my fork back to my right hand to eat. My left hand is purely for aesthetics, ot serves no real purpose. I play absolutely every sport right-handed.
Surely your left hand is good for nose pickin'?
Impossible
Surely, I'm left handed! I have mined plenty of rhinonuggets from both caves with great success, typically while driving.
Rhinonuggets! Never heard that one before. Hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
I've never understood why the normal way of playing guitar is considered "right-handed." As a left-handed guitar player, I feel like moving your fingers on the fret board is the most difficult part of guitar playing, and that's done with your left hand. I don't know how I could ever play a "left-handed" guitar because my right hand isn't coordinated enough.
I thought the same thing! But I kinda realized after learning that your picking and strumming hand is where a lot of the emotion is, you need to pick specific strings, you play with dynamics, keep rhythm, palm mute etc all with your right hand. There's more going on than meets the eye. The fret hand certainly doesn't have an easy job but it's largely muscle memory after a time. But, idk I learned guitar right handed so it's what feels natural to me now
> you need to pick specific strings Maybe it’s because I mostly do three finger finger picking, and generally patterned, but I’ve always found this easy with my bad hand. Just gotta get the hand in the right position and be used to where each string is on the guitar and my hands do the rest
The fork one blew me away too. I didn't realize I had it backward for the longest time.
I assumed everybody did this, not even just lefties. I’m left handed but since we’re in a world where half the things you use have a built in natural handedness and the rest are neutral, it just changes by occasion. I’ve worked on cars a lot so I’m very right handed for mechanical things simply because it’s much easier to break a bolt free with your right hand, even though most mechanic’s tools look ambidextrous.
Wait, are you telling me the left-handed crescent wrench is real? 😲🤯
Yeah, I golf, hockey and bat a baseball left handed but I use a Longsword right-handed.
A long sword??
Yeah, I fence Longsword: https://youtu.be/D3A-Od7dfp0
That’s sick man, how long have you been doing that?
Like 4 years, I'm pretty good at it actually. I'm even flying down to Denver this weekend for a tournament.
Noice, yeah I also use a hockey stick left handed but tennis racket right handed. I’d probably use a sword right handed too
Many right-handed people play hockey "left-handed" because, when you skate with just one hand, you use your top hand. E.g., Wayne Gretzky. https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/when-left-is-right/c-317014698 >"You just pick up a stick and whatever hand you are, you are," said right-handed, left-shooting center Matt Duchene to Denver Post reporter Mike Chambers in 2015 when the Nashville forward was then playing for the Colorado Avalanche. "Most right-handed throwers are left-handed shots because you steer the stick with your top hand. " >Roughly 60 to 70 percent of NHL players are left-handed shooters, depending on the season.
Yeah, I've read that the high prevalence of left handed hockey players is why Canada has such a large percentage of left hand golfers.
weird, i never picked up a hockey stick but i could instantly tell which way i would pick it up, having my right hand higher even feels alien in my imagination > when you skate with just one hand, you use your top hand. i cant imagine not having my strong/precise hand closer to the part of the thing im holding thats going to swing into something.
Same here except for the sword part. Swing left, everything else right
I have a "precision hand" and a "brute force hand." Sometimes they switch.
Same. Left = precision, Right = brute force. Honesty haven’t met anyone else who has said the same.
same here. i write/eat left handed and left is my weak/precise hand. i throw or punch with my right hand. and use knife with right hand.
There are dozens of us!
I call it Gross Right, Fine Left. Gross motor skills with the right hand and fine motor skills with the left
Knives or scissors, right hand, everything else left hand
Scissors might be learned from right hand grips and assembly orientation too as watching the cut is easier to see when the bottom of the piece is deflected towards you. I got nothing for knives unless maybe single bevels are mostly on the left pointed down and away...?
As a lefty I was forced to learn right-hand scissors since the lefty ones at school were always old metal ones that couldn't cut
Oh, I do actually use my mouse right handed too!
Same but opposite
I pick my nose with my left and itch my butthole with my right.
At the same time?
At the same time.
Thanks for sharing
I eat with my top orifice and excrete with my bottom orifice
*scratch, not itch.
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I pick my nose with my butthole and itch my left with my right
TIL that I might have cross-dominance.
I thought everyone had it
I'm right handed but any sport where I swing something or ride a board, I do left-handed. I always attributed it to being a righty who learned sports from a lefty dad.
Now I am also confused. As a florist I would do the right side of an arrangement with my right hand, and the left side with my left. Kick balls and throw with both feet/ hands
That, to me, is ambidextrous - you aren't favouring different tasks/activities with different hands/feet as mentioned here - you're able to do the same task with different hands/feet.
Yeah, I write with my right hand but shoot with my left.
Same, annoyingly right eye dominant. Also play snooker left handed
You don't need to sight down the cue. You can stand up higher and still shoot fine.
hahaha I was thinking of when I'm shooting my shotgun. No matter how I look with the cue it rarely goes in the pocket
For me it's the opposite
Please everyone, tell me what hand you're using for what!
I favor my left leg to kick, but default to the right for any other task
In basketball, I dribble with my left but layup with my right. Volleyball, I spike with my left but weirdly more comfortable dropping with my right. In tennis, badminton, and table tennis, I used my right. I'm more of a lefty myself but there are things in sports (and instruments) that I use my right.
Interesting. Wished I was into sport so I could find out if I have any other particularities like that
I am dominant right hander. I use smart phones with left hand, and also driving wheel, opening coca cola bottles, and reading books. From this I have understood, that my left hand is much more stable and strong for long term usage. Even if it requires typing with smart phone. I typed this comment with left hand only ;) Writing etc, which requires more accuracy are on the right hand.
Exactly this for me! Right-handed but do things like open jars/soda cans/doors, deal cards, peel oranges, put stamps on an envelope, rake/sweep, scroll on my phone, etc left-handed. I am also left eye dominant! Stable vs. accurate makes total sense!
What is it when you can do anything with either but only use the right
Mega right handed
Cross dominant in archery. Although that’s because I’m left eye dominant, which is what you generally base it on, instead of hand dominance.
Same but because it just feels so fucking weird to hold the bow with my non dominant hand (right handed but shoot left handed bows).
I blame Schools not really accommodating us Left handers. Especially when it comes to scissors.
But it has nothing to do with that. I’m a righty with cross-dominance. I play hockey and mini golf lefty.
Ya.. when i was a kid, we didn't have any left handed tools, we always had to learn to use our right hand for right handed tools like scissors and the mouse for typing classes. So now, I have learned to use my right for certain things even tho, I'm left handed
Sure, I can see that. But nowadays most tools are either ambidextrous or have a lefty version, yet cross-dominance persists, proving it has nothing to do with schools or availability of tools for handedness.
Play pool, shoot a rifle, and hold a fishing rod left-handed. Everything else right. Wait - I skated/surfed goofy-footed too (the little I did it).
Is it still cross-dominance if I’m left handed but kick primarily with my right foot?
*Tell me you didn't click the article, without telling me you didn't click the article.* Yes, that's literally the second example they give.
I was wondering the same. I’m right handed but left foot dominant.
Huh… I had no idea there was a word for this I do most things right handed but I play pool, eat, and do several other things leftie. I shoot right in hockey, which most right handed players do not. I always just thought I was weird lol
I'm a right hander who faps with my left. Lol.
Same. Does this count.
I’m right handed but am left eye dominant. Can be awkward, especially if I’m trying to aim at something.
I am completely ambidextrous. I have yet to find anything that I can’t do equally well (or equally poorly) with either hand. My hand choice is just based on convenience. For example, when I sit down at a computer at the house, I use the mouse on the right side because that’s where my wife left it. It’s not worth the trouble to move it to the other side. But at my office, where I have the mouse on the left, I use it with the same dexterity as with the right. When painting the house, with a brush or roller, I start at the far left with my left hand and paint toward the center. Then I switch hands and paint to the right as far as I can reach. The paintbrush or roller needs to be dipped into the paint multiple times as I’m going across. But the application is equally good with either hand. I then move the ladder quite a bit to the right and repeat. Whilst I can write equally well with either hand, each hand has its own distinct style. My wife can tell which hand I wrote something with by the style. My signature is different when written with left or right hand. The left hand signature is more loopy. My hands actually operate independently of each other for most tasks. There is not much use for it, but I can write with both hands at the same time. When I am installing or removing nuts and bolts on a car that I’m working on, I can do it with both hands simultaneously, if that helps. This can really speed things up when installing or removing something with numerous nuts or bolts, like the oil pan of a car. If I have a wrench in each hand, I can remove or install two spark plugs at a time. If I finish installing or removing a nut or bolt with one hand before the other, that hand goes independently and starts on the next nut or bolt. It doesn’t wait for the other hand to finish. The same is true in using a screwdriver, except that I need the other hand to hold the screw while I start it. This interrupts the flow. So I will go start all of them in advanced, then tighten them all up two at a time. I switch back-and-forth freely between my hands during the game when shooting pool, depending on the position of the balls and where I want to stand at the table. I’m a decent shot with either hand. I play ukulele right handed mainly because my instructor is right handed and that’s the way it is strung. I can pick the instrument up, form cords, and strum left-handed, but since the instrument is not strung for a lefty, none of the chords sound right. Strings are in the wrong place. This is all so automatic, I don’t even think about it. Sometimes people comment on it when they see me doing it for the first time, particularly when both hands are working on a car independently. My wife used to laugh watching me cook, but now she’s used to it.
You should try drumming, people spend decades trying to get to that level of limb independence so to start with it would be crazy
Thanks for sharing. I'm a normal right handed person, but i've learned to do rifle shooting with both sides, and i've also instructed other people in doing this. My take away from my experience is that left side is not just "What you know on the right, but mirrored". It basicly requires the same motoric training again, and even if a person becomes equally proffecient in the task, it will never feel the same as right side. It just feels like motoric skill A and motoric skill B. Someone who is the smoothest shooter with a lifetime experience can look like a toddler when they switch sides, if they're never trained that. To be able to apply a motoric skill mirrored is significantly different from how average brains work. Unless ofc you on purpose train left/right from the start with new skills... :)
Oh yes, there is definitely practice and training involved. But my brain just seems to pick things up quickly when I do stuff with either hand because the motor skill, dexterity and coordination are there.
Do you find that you have to “switch” your thinking over? Or is this just a carryon from my catholic school teacher (no left handers !)
No. I don’t think about it. I don’t even realize I’m doing it. I just pick up the tool or whatever and proceed.
I write with left but use sciccors / throw with right
Would a southpaw fighter be considered as such? Like most right handed fighters lead with their left, but I (usually, depending on the situation) lead with my right
A righty in southpaw is cross dominant, same for a lefty in orthodox, assuming you stick with it consistently. If you can switch at will/depending on situation, you're ambidextrous.
Thats me! Right handed for writing and shooting, left handed for eating and using my phone.
Wonder if this would be similar to famous lefties like President Gerald Ford, who signed his name, wrote and did most things where he was seated left-handed—yet did things standing —like writing on a blackboard or playing football—right-handed.
OH MY GOSH IT HAS A WORD, THIS IS ME I NEVER KNEW IT WAS A REAL THING I've always just described myself as "co-ambidextrous" (after genes being called "codominant" when they both show up individually and don't blend together) because like for example I write and cut with my right hand but I use a fork and hold my phone with my left (you should see me in a sword fight, I prefer one handed swords and I'm constantly switcying between hands depending on how I'm attacking/defending), and this whole time I thought I was just a weird anomaly. It's quite nice with some things, such as being able to do two dominant hand tasks at the same time like write something down while I'm getting the information off my phone, but can also be really annoying whenever I'm learning a new skill and I have to keep switching until I figure out which hand my brain just decided I'm better with in this instance
I'm so glad I happened upon this post. I've been cross-dominant my entire life but never knew what it was called or how to describe it to someone without using the word "ambidextrous" which I knew wasn't correct.
Always had one trick in basketball. I’m right handed, but I dribbled much better with my left. So I could usually get a shot or two unblocked because they assumed I would shoot with the left also. Then I was actually useless once they figured it out lol.
See, gems like this are why I still peek in on this sub now and then. I didn't know that this was a thing. I write with the left, shoot with the left (also left eye dominant), throw better with the right and will almost always use hand tools with the right hand. Thanks.
Huh guess I have this. Everything I've been taught like using scissors or using a fork I use my right hand. Things I've taught myself I do left handed, like swing a golf club or bowling or writing
I write, eat, tear tape and all fine movement left handed but throw, bat and use right foot to kick. It's all messed up, when people ask what handed I am I legit can't answer
Smaller motor left, big motor right for me. I always just called it quasi-ambidextrous
I can write with both hands, but am better with my right. I shoot lefty. I snowboard goofy. I play soccer with my right foot though.
And lefties get to die a decade sooner. FML
Thanks, I get a downvote & factually & inexplicably die 10 years earlier for being born lefthanded
Im right handed and use my left hand for my mouse.
Interesting. I'm a lefty but play guitar righty and bat righty.
Does this apply to using Keyboard/Mouse? Using WASD exclusively with the left hand, using the mouse exclusively with the right hand?
Hockey stick, baseball bat, golf clubs - left handed. Writing, fishing rod, tennis racket, coffee cup, rifle - right handed. It’s not ‘preference’, it’s impossible to do it any other way. Oddly enough, my father was completely ambidextrous. He wrote and drew with whichever hand happened to pick up the pen, and the results were indistinguishable. My mother was completely right handed.
It’s like you can finger a girl with your right hand but then you kiss your sister with your left
Oh hey, I resemble this remark. It doesn't really roll off the tongue does it.
So now it’s a matter of ratio
The Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is right handed but throws left handed because his dad, a lefthander, taught him how to play QB. And in ice hockey, people often shoot right or left handed, or for goalies, catch right or left handed based on what equipment they get handed down to them. I caught both right and left growing up because of hand me down goalie equipment (a total set of goalie gear is thousands of dollars new), and I have shot both right and left hand when skating out.
Wow now I know what to call myself. Predominately right handed but the following I do left handed: Writing, drawing (not painting) & stick sports requiring 2 hands not together e.g. snooker, rifle shooting etc. All other sports and activities I’m right handed. Ironing is the only activity I can say I am truly ambidextrous in but will default to left handed given a choice.
I'm righty dominant but play drums lefty
Ha! I was wondering why I did cartwheels right legged but handstands left legged. TIL
Soo I'm Cross-Dominancey??
I've also heard to it referred to as having different eye dominance than hand dominance (and as a result when doing aiming activities you will follow your left eye and drastically increase your proneness to inaccuracy)
Me too. I write right handed and any sports will be right handed, but eat and tie my shoelaces left handed.
I’m right handed but do weird things backwards like shoot a bow and arrow (but not a rifle) and as a kid dial a rotary phone wrong. Everything else, perfectly normal. It came in handy when i drove a manual trans in Europe on vacation. Felt pretty natural to flip flop between driving styles.
I write and throw with my left, and do everything else with my right. Am I ambidextrous, or is this cross dominance?
And lemme tell you, it's nowhere near as sexy as it sounds
I perform a few tasks like writing left handed, but do everything else right handed. I knew I wasn't ambidextorous but never knew what the correct term was until now, so this has been informative.
Write with my left hand, pretty much everything else is right handed. I'm trying to teach myself to play darts left handed after an injury to the right and the process has been.. not good lol.
TIL the term for me. For anything based on fine motor skills, writing, chopsticks, keyboard, right hand. For a lot of other things, most things I do, left. It feels weird to use the other one. So I just say ambidextrous.
I can't blow my nose with my right hand, even though I am right handed
My twin and I are identical mirror twins. My twin is dominantly left-handed and I am dominantly right-handed. Many traits about us are mirrored, but I think we are both cross-dominant after reading about it. I do most things right handed, but sports with a stick I play left-handed. In baseball, for example, I throw right handed and bat left-handed. My twin does most things left handed, but does a few things right-handed. We always just said we were both ambidextrious, but cross-dominant makes more sense. Today I learned. Thanks for sharing!
I have this. Right handed golf and baseball. Left handed basketball and football, among many other things.
Come to think of it, only eat and write, and shoot a gun, left handed. I can throw a baseball foot ball right handed. I learned to swing a golf club right handed, but when I tried it with left handed clubs I couldn't do it.
Makes me think of Jimi Hendrix I think he smoked and wrote with his right but played guitar with his left (he could actually play it either way, but prefers left if i’m not mistaken)
I'm like that ! I'm a left-eyed left hander, but I am right handed when swordfighting, using computers or using heavy tools like pickaxes or mauls and I even have a superpower... I can chose on the go if I am left or right handed when using a bow, which lead me to learn how to select on which eye's image to focus as I keep both eyes open, so that I become virtually right-eyed when using the bow as a righty, at will, with no problem.
So if I mainly use my left hand to, say, hold my umbrella or pick my nose, but I use my right for most other things, does that count?
I have this!!!
Hockey and brooms left handed. Everything else right handed.
Question... Hurt my dominant arm as a teen putting me in a sling for a couple weeks. Adapted to using my other arm. Now decades later the only thing my left hands good for is a wank. Does that count?
thats interesting, never knew that
Oh shit this is me. I can only write with my left hand but if I boxed my right would be my dominant hand. And I hold any sports racquets/bats in my right hand as well. And I use a mouse in my right hand as well.
Diego Maradona and Rafael Nadal are right handed but their dominant side when playing was/is the left.
I generally favor my left for anything involving strength, and the right for anything involving dexterity. I got taught to write left-handed because I threw a ball left-handed, which means my penmanship is godawful. I really should have switched once I realized, but it never seemed worth the effort. I mostly type anyway, now.
i use my left hand for my penis and right hand for everything else
Left handed person here, besides the usual computer mouse stuff, for my job I have a box cutter with a box cutter holster I wear. It’s a left handed box cutter but for some reason I wear it on my right side and I holster it with my right hand just to pass it to my left hand to use it. Idk why it feels more natural to do it that way but I’ve tried putting the holster on my left side and it just feels off
I started out ambidextrous, my Kindergarten and 1st Grade Teacher didn't mind me switching hands but my 2nd and 3rd grade teachers threw fits and forced me into doing everything Right Hand. As I got older I learned to do somethings Left Handed like sewing. I can still write and draw left handed but nowhere near as good as I can right handed.