Yeah, me too. Also “neither”. What do they mean “which hand is on top when you clap your hands?” I don’t clap vertically I clap horizontally and neither hand is on top.
Right hand for most things.
Carry with either hand.
Guitar- left handed.
I’m strongly right handed, with a twist.
Writing – right
Cutting with scissors right
Holding a bat one-handed right
Eating with a spoon right
Holding a toothbrush right
Brushing your hair back when I wasn’t a balding reliquiae right
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope? left
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone? left
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball? haven’t done this since I was a kid, but right
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top? Usually right but either way feels natural.
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top? right
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding? left
Which hand do you throw a ball with? right
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book? right
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat) when holding the bat down towards the ground? If this is your left, you will be facing to your right looking over your right shoulder to see the ball coming. right
In addition, despite being an uncultured 'Murican, I hold/use dining utensils European style so hold my fork in my left hand, knife in my right when eating a meal.
I shoot a gun left-handed.
I wear my watch (yes, I still wear a watch every day) on my left wrist.
I carry my wallet in my left thigh pocket.
The twist: I’m blind in my right eye and mostly deaf in my right ear, which dictates a few of the above choices.
I’m almost exclusively right-handed, but when we played garage hockey, I had a left hand shot.
Writing –right
Cutting with scissors–right
Holding a bat one-handed–Don’t know. Haven’t held a bat since childhood
Eating with a spoon–right
Holding a toothbrush–right
Brushing your hair–both right and left
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope?–left, I am strongly left-eyed
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone?–left
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball?–right
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top?–right
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top?–right
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding?–left
Which hand do you throw a ball with?–right
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book?–right
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat) when holding the bat down towards the ground? If this is your left, you will be facing to your right looking over your right shoulder to see the ball coming.–Don’t know.
I am right-handed, though I can write decently with my left, it is just a slow process. I am very strongly left-eyed (confirmed by an optometrist) and generally pretty klutzy.
Writing Right
Cutting with scissors Right
Holding a bat one-handed Right
Eating with a spoon Right, but can switch
Holding a toothbrush Right, but can switch
Brushing your hair Not sure, I don’t do this
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope? Left, because I am cross-dominant, which is not uncommon but sucks. This has very little to do with handedness
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone? Left
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball? Right
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top? Left
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top? Right
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding? Not sure, left feels more natural
Which hand do you throw a ball with? Right
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book? Right
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat) when holding the bat down towards the ground? If this is your left, you will be facing to your right looking over your right shoulder to see the ball coming. Right I think, they could have worded this much better
Also, I open jars and bottles by holding them with my right hand and twisting with my left, which I’m told is “backwards.”
Which hand do you use for:
Writing
Cutting with scissors
Holding a bat one-handed
Eating with a spoon
Holding a toothbrush
Brushing your hair
All right handed, except maybe holding the bat. That could be either.
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope?
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone?
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball?
All right handed, but until recently my right eye was better than my left.
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top?
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top?
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding?
Right
Which hand do you throw a ball with?
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book?
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat) when holding the bat down towards the ground? If this is your left, you will be facing to your right looking over your right shoulder to see the ball coming.
I throw right handed, but I bat and golf left handed. I can use either hand to turn pages. My father was left handed, though in the early 1920s he was forced to do things right handed and kind of lost his left handedness, so it is not surprising I do some things left handed.
The common surveys used in scientific research where this might be important include ones like the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, which indeed has a Likert-style scale of: always left / usually left / both equally / usually right / always right.
The only ‘lefty’ thing I do on that survey is use my left eye preferentially as it is my dominant eye.
I wish there were more research out there on how/why cross-dominance occurs, but I haven’t been able to find much online.
I play trumpet with my right hand but I play French horn with my left.
Oh, wait…
In my case it’s easy: I’m blind in my right eye so I have no choice but to use my left eye. Same with sighting down the barrel of a gun. Even though I’m right handed I have to shoot left handed. After nearly blinding myself with a BB gun when I was a kid I don’t shoot much, but when I do I have to shoot left-handed. Which to my mind is a better way to shoot: you aim the gun with your dominant hand, so why would a right-handed person not shoot left-handed? Anyway, I have to do it because of my eyesight and now even holding a gun right-handed feels awkward.
Interesting tangent fact: most lefties in professional baseball are actually right-handed, and they just taught themselves to throw with their left hand/arm because of the advantage it gives them in the sport.
The advantage of throwing handedness in baseball is extremely position-dependent, of course.
Pitchers, first basemen - it’s good to be lefty, though for pitchers it’s very situational depending on the batter.
Catchers, other infielders - better throw with your right.
Outfielders can take their pick, generally.
Batting is where you’re more likely to see a natural righty using their nondominant hand to gain a platoon advantage against the more numerous right handed pitchers. Of course, if you can switch-hit, that’s best of all.
ETA: apostrophe
Pretty dominant righty. When I played basketball, I taught myself how to dribble left-handed, but that’s about it. As someone who worked in the trades, I used my off-hand for a LOT of help when working. That said, any work that required torqueing or swinging a hammer, etc. was done with the right.
I’m 100% RIGHT for that survey.
I find 2-handed activities curious. For example, when I played piano, my RH was definitely more facile than my LH. But when I play bass or banjo, the 2 hands are doing really different things. Why is it presumed that strumming with the RH is “preferable” as opposed to fretting? (I suspect SOME portion is attributable to the standardization of instrument/tool/equipment production.)
Or in golf. The left arm is basically (gross simplification) making the swing, with the right going along for the ride. I recall discussion that right handers might do better if they swung left handed. But my impression is that far more clubs are available in right-hand configurations.
I’m unsuccessfully trying to think of any fine or gross manipulation activity that I do better with my LH.
Right
Either - I own both right and left handed scissors (the lefties inherited from mom) and can use either equally well. Sometimes I take my left-handed sewing scissors to meets because, since so few people can use them, I am less likely to lose them.
I have no idea - it’s been decades.
Either, equally well
Right.
Right.
Left - currently the right is messed up with a cataract.
Left. Because I hear better with it.
Either, but more inclined to favor the left.
Right.
Left.
Right.
Either. Equally well.
Right when reading languages that go left-to-right, the left one when reading (or trying to) languages that go right-to-left. Has a lot to do with how the books work.
For e-books - either, equally well.
Have no idea, it’s been decades.
In compensation for all those sports questions I couldn’t answer regarding bats and clubs - I am definitely a left-handed shooter when it comes to guns. I can shoot right handed but it feels very awkward and I’m not as accurate.
I can also play ping-pong or tennis either right or left handed.
Chopsticks only right handed.
Cutting with a knife - right handed. Also vegetable peeling.
Originally I always had my computer mouse on my left, but things are so geared now to “right hand is mouse hand” that I switched.
I still prefer to use a calculator with my left hand.
I’m pretty sure that is how they plan things; the handset on the desk phone is often on the left with the keys on the right. This is intended for the convenience of the majority righties.
Which hand do you use for: (The answer is Right, except for where specified or clarified
Writing
Cutting with scissors
Holding a bat one-handed
Eating with a spoon
Holding a toothbrush
Brushing your hair - N/A (sadly) (but it used to be right)
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope? - Right, but note that my vision in that eye is much better
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone? - Right unless I need to take notes
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball?
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top? - Left
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top? - If I ever clap horizontally it would be right
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding? - Left
Which hand do you throw a ball with?
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book?
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom
I am dreadfully right sided. The stuff on the left is only there to stop me from going round in circles.
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Writing: right only
Cutting with scissors: right
Holding a bat one-handed: right
Eating with a spoon: right
Holding a toothbrush: right
Brushing your hair: what’s hair?
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope?: Left, but a botched cataract op left me with no central vision in the right eye.
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone?: Left; my left ear is somewhat better than the right, but I actually do it both ways.
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball?: right
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top?: left
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top?: left
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding?: left
Which hand do you throw a ball with?: right
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book?: usually right
Using a bat or club two-handed, which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat) when holding the bat down towards the ground? If this is your left, you will be facing to your right looking over your right shoulder to see the ball coming.: right
One curious difference. When I was dealing a hand, someone remarked that I was dealing left-handed. I deal either way at random and I don’t even know which way is left-handed.
I had an uncle who was right-handed all the way, but threw left-handed. Odd.