I think 30% of the population is cross-dominant. So not weird. Just a little different.
I’m cross-dominant. Left-eyed and eared, right-handed, ambi-footed (balance is a lot better on my right, but my left foot is stronger and feels more dominant somehow). My right-handedness is suspect. Despite doing just about everything with my right-hand, it is smaller and weaker than my left. Actually my whole left arm is longer. My mother says I was left-handed as a toddler and I was “turned” when I was in nursery school. They did a helluva job 'cuz I don’t remember that at all. But one reminder that I’m a converted right-hander is my awkward pencil grip.
So while I think of myself as a right-handed individual, I always keep in the back of my mind the fact that I’m a bio-leftie. Which means that I always give a dissertation when people ask what’s my dominant hand.
I’m right handed for the most part, but I deal cards and count money (bills) left handed. One of my office mates saw me use the computer 10-key pad with my right hand for data entry, and switch over to a 10-key calculator with my left for calculations. She freaked right the hell out: “HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT?”.
I write, throw, catch, and bat right-handed. I eat left-handed. I also deal cards left-handed, and actually cannot do it righty: I drop them all over the place, grab 4 at a time, etc. It’s kind of odd.
Someone told me once that I put on belts the left-handed way, but I didn’t know there was such a thing. I thread it around clockwise. Is that how left-handed people do it? Does it matter?
I’m opposite to the OP–right-handed for writing, left for anything I swing, baseball bat, golf club, hockey stick. Caused a problem when we tried out field hockey in phys ed. For some unfathomable reason, all field hockey sticks are right-handed; there’s no such thing as a left-handed stick. I was hopeless at it.
In school when we’d have to write math problems on the blackboard I’d start out writing left-handed until I got to the middle then switch to my right to finish the line. No one ever freaked out, but I did get people stopping to watch with puzzled faces.
However, I can’t write left-handed on paper at all. Well, I can, but it comes out looking like a toddler got hold of the pen and went to town with it.
I am like this. I write with my left hand but cut paper with my right. I hold a cricket bat or golf club right handed, bowl a cricket ball left handed, but throw overarm right handed, and kick a football with my right foot. Playing tennis I can swap hands with the racquet and play equally well with either hand.
Right handed for writing. However, the left side of my body is quite a bit stronger than my right. (I was born with hip dysplasia - right hip).
I broke my left wrist when I fell downstairs into a wall…used my left fist to stop myself, put my head through the wall anyways…but I have to open jars with my left hand…I hold a phone to my right ear and write with my right hand also…
Right handed for writing. However, the left side of my body is quite a bit stronger than my right. (I was born with hip dysplasia - right hip).
I broke my left wrist when I fell downstairs into a wall…used my left fist to stop myself, put my head through the wall anyways…but I have to open jars with my left hand…I hold a phone to my right ear and write with my right hand also…
I write with my left, but on a black/whiteboard I can write with either or even both.
Kick right (althoug my left foot is almost equally bad)
Throw left
Bat/racket/paddle left
But in volleyball I serve left but often smash rigth
Guitar/bass rigth, drums left.
Doesn’t this entirely depend on if you want the belt buckle on the left or right side? As with watches, you won’t find 100% of right handers who want the buckle one way and 100% of left handers wanting it the other. I have the buckle on the right, so of course I have to start by inserting it in the loop on the front right and work my way around.
Ok so I guess I’m considered left-handed but I’m not so sure seeing as how I only can name three things I do with my left hand ( write, eat and shoot pool) everything else is with my right hand ( scissors,kicking,catching , throwing, punching, wiping , brushing my hair, and waving) literally everything but writing and eating is with my right hand. What is that supposed to mean? Can anyone explain that?
Many people laugh at me when I tell them that I think I know why it is that approx ten percent of the population tends to be left-handed.
I am left-handed and when I once went to see a chiropractor, he told me that my left leg is one quarter inch longer than my right leg.
That got me to thinking. If one leg is sufficiently longer than the other, it might establish a propensity to favor that side of the body. If the left leg is (say) one quarter inch (or more) longer than the right, that might give the person a propensity to be left handed.
If the legs are both the same length or if the left leg is longer by not longer than an amount equal to one quarter inch or more, then perhaps it makes no difference and it is no problem for someone to then use the right hand as teachers and parents keep trying to force kids when they are 5 or 6 years old.
So, if it turns out that one tenth of the population has a left leg that is slightly longer than their right leg, that just might explain why that percentage of the population is left handed. It seems just as reasonable as any other explanation. Doesn’t it?
It has always seemed like a reasonable explanation and I just don’t know why people laugh at me when I propose this theory.
My only consolation is that people also laughed at Gallileo and Columbus. So, piss on 'em.
I do everything with my left hand except for using scissors. However, I notice that if I am cutting out something intricate, I tend to hold the scissors still and move the paper around.
I consider myself left-handed because I write with my left hand, but I do a bunch of things with my right hand. I think the weirdest combo is knife usage. If I’m slicing, I hold the knife in my left hand. But if I’m paring, I hold it in my right. If I use a peeler, though, it’s left-handed.
I’m also cross-dominant. I play baseball or golf with my left, but everything else with my right. In 30 years, I haven’t discovered anything else I do as a lefty. I also have an uncle and a deceased grandfather that enjoy the same affliction. Genetic?
Back in the early '90s, when I was a kid, I moved my mouse to the left and turned it upside down. Just felt more natural. What was that about?
Not weird. I write with my left hand, cut paper with scissors with my right hand, hold a cricket bat or golf club with my right hand, throw overarm right handed but bowl a cricket ball left handed, I can play tennis with either my right and left hand but kick a football with my right foot as I have no control over my left, pick up a cup or mug to drink from with my left hand, hold the phone with my left hand, but use the computer mouse with my right.
