Both parents right handed.
Both children right-handed.
Late mate left handed, forced in school to write right handed, dammit.
#1 child left handed; #2 child right handed.
I don’t think doing a handful of things with your other hand, especially if you’re left-handed and have been forced to learn how to in order to use certain tools at all, indicates ambidextrousness. I use a mouse with my right hand, the can opener, and I bowl with my right hand, but that doesn’t make me ambidextrous. But yeah, you sound like you were…as a kid.
I write right handed and can only use my mouse right handed, but everything else is left.
I can’t understand how people can be a right handed batter or use golf clubs right handed. It doens’t work at all for me.
Yet I can’t even use my left hand to even reasonably control my mouse. When I lift weights I also favor my left hand.
I went with “amibextrous with right-handed tendency”, but another phrase that I prefer is “cross-dominant”, which is a phrase that came up in an earlier thread on this topic.
I do most things with my right hand, but there are several things I can do with my left if I want, or which just feel more natural.
I can’t do that “shoot pool behind my back” thing for awkward shots. It’s a lot easier to just shift hands. If I want to, I can play an entire game lefty, except for awkward shots, where I shoot right.
I deal cards lefty, and mouse lefty, but generally can’t write lefty. But then, just the other day, the Piper Cub and I were doing some drawing and I did a drawing of a bird for him - realised afterwards that I’d done it with my left hand without even thinking of it.
It’s very handy when I’m doing some manual labour, like using a screwdriver in awkward spots - I can just switch to whichever is the most comfortable.
On the other hand, it causes confusion sometimes - I sometimes have to think hard about which hand to use, and I find it confusing when someone says “right” or “left” for directions - it’s not automatic to me what those directions mean, and I have to consciously think about it - which can be a problem when I’m driving and someone’s giving directions in a busy traffic situation. Mrs Piper now appreciates that, and says “Your side” or “my side” when she’s the navigator and I’m driving.
Ambidextrous with (fairly strong) right-handed tendency.
My left eye is my dominant eye, which I discovered when I learned archery in high school. I shoot a bow (and fire a rifle) left-handed due to this, and can switch-hit in baseball and softball.
You saved me a lot of typing. 
I am definitely right-handed, but I’m not as incompetent with my left as some righties. And there are some situations where I don’t really have a preference- picking things up, shaking hands, stuff like that.
Although I can do many things with both hands, I am primarily right handed.
Definitely left-hand dominant. I’m right-eyed for some reason, which makes it harder to shoot archery and guns since I aim left-handed. It definitely runs in my family though. My mother and a brother, my son (and his mother) and I’m sure some other relatives I can’t think of offhand are all left-handed. I do use the mouse right-handed, but I found it was easier to write and use the computer at once that way so I stuck with it.
This thread caught my attention because I am perhaps unique. I have never heard of anyone else that is right-handed when sitting down and left-handed when standing up.
Writing on a piece of paper while sitting at a desk is done right handed. Writing on a chalkboard while standing is done left handed. I can’t write left handed while sitting, nor can i write right handed while standing.
I can only write with my left hand, but I do a lot of things with my right.
I know of only one person even similar to that: my sister. Writes with her right sitting down, but standing up at a board she writes with her left. She is primarily right-handed.
I, on the other hand am almost exclusively a lefty (largest minority in the world!).
Exceptions: I catch right because it was easier than trying to get the glove off in time to catch with my left hand. Scissors right because there was no such thing as left-handed scissors as a kid.
I can never remember what makes a southpaw in golf and baseball. I hold the bat with my left hand below my right over the plate. I use the same position on those blue-moon occasions where I find myself with a golf club, only it’s pointed down, not up. One of you guys will have to tell me which is which or if they’re the same. I have no idea.
Right-handed and, when I spent 74 days with a cast on my left arm, I was extremely grateful. I had just settled into my emergency waiting room when a nurse yelled down the hall “Are you right or left handed?” I was never so pleased to tell someone RIGHT!
I use eating utensils and write with my left hand. Play baseball and golf righty.
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My mother, who went to Catholic school when she was younger, has told me stories that if the nuns found that anyone was left handed in their class, they’d bind their left hand to their side, essentially forcing them to develop right-handedness. Something about Jesus being seated at the right hand of The Father or something. Anyone know if there’s any truth to this?
I can remember my father telling me that the nuns would whack his hand with a ruler any time they caught him writing with his left hand. One more reason among many he had little love for his birth faith. AFAIK, since sinister is latin for left, they decided it would be better that the faithful not write with their left hands. Inviting trouble, I guess… :rolleyes:
Although I am becoming more ambi as time goes on. Breaking my right arm helped set me on that path. I think being ambidextrous is a desirable and achievable goal, at least by degree.
Thoroughly right-handed. You know, of course, that the word “sinister” comes from the Latin for “left”.
Definitely right handed. Although I can do anything except write with my left hand, just not as well.
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Just stopping by to say thank you! You’ve given me one more item to add to my generic Boastful-Doper, all-purpose, “I am super-duper extraordinary”, no explanation given (or needed), post:
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I should have maybe presented the first item like this:
193 = 99.99999%
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I make posts like this one in any thread that asks: How (smart/rich/good-in-bed/strong/fast/talented/well-endowed/incredible are you? It’s amusing to see people try to out-brag each other on an anonymous message board where no one will ever verify what you claim.
I saw this thread and supposed that we might have a whole bunch of ambidextrous Dopers all of a sudden–I haven’t read all of the thread yet–so I don’t know if that is “true”.
My husband, who is decidedly not Catholic, says he was forced to use his right hand in primary school, even though he’s naturally left-handed. I’d guess it was more a situation of the times than of the religion.
Me, I’m a righty, and there are very few things I do with my left hand, although I think my left arm is still the stronger one, from several years of carrying babies and toddlers on that one.