# POLL: Are you right-handed or left-handed (or ambidextrous)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-right-handed-or-left-handed-or-ambidextrous/947865 "2021-08-02T13:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-right-handed-or-left-handed-or-ambidextrous/947865/1 "2021-08-02T13:01:29Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-right-handed-or-left-handed-or-ambidextrous/947865/1))_ Finally getting around to making this poll after it was suggested by @BigT in this post: [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-gauche-sinister-thread-for-us-southpaws/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-gauche-sinister-thread-for-us-southpaws/) Lefties are typically only about 10% of the general population, but I had speculated in that other post that since there are a number of famous lefties throughout history who have excelled in various fields, and Dopers are an extremely smart and capable bunch, perhaps the Venn diagram intersect of Dopers / lefties may be higher than 10%. And after almost no lefties representing in the first dozen or so posts, a strong lefty contingent eventually started showing up. As for the poll rules, it’s a pretty straightforward poll. Left vs. right hand dominance should be clear-cut, but as for ambidextrousness, “I write left-handed but use scissors right-handed” isn’t ambidextrous, it’s just a lefty who adapted to a righty world. Let’s say for the purposes of this poll that if you can write equally legibly with both hands you qualify as ambidextrous. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-right-handed-or-left-handed-or-ambidextrous/947865)._