# Am I ambdextrous?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 27, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-ambdextrous/834616 "2019-05-27T23:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-ambdextrous/834616/21 "2019-05-30T07:40:06Z")

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[Previous thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=419952) that I posted in on ambidexterity. You’re probably left-handed. Mixed-dominance is pretty common, particularly with lefties. For example I’m naturally left-handed but right-eyed, and I shoot firearms and bows right-handed. A college roommate used to try to shoot right-handed even though he was left-eyed. His accuracy did go up a bit when he took my suggestion to switch to left-handed shooting, but he was not particularly successful at improving his speed and fluidity in acquiring the target because he was so strongly right-dominant.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-ambdextrous/834616/22 "2019-05-30T20:49:32Z")

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I tend, righly or leftly (ha!), to think of ‘ambidextrous’ meaning doing the same things equally well with each hand - more like the Garfield reference above but not necessarily doing both at the same time. That would be “ambidextrous with a side of dayum”.

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