Likewise, though when I think I’m likely to be taking notes I’ll use a headset.
For a similar reason, I taught myself to a mouse left-handed (took me all of an hour or so). Worked out even better when one of my duties involved a lot of numeric entry.
Oh yes. I’m hard of hearing. And work meetings require me to be on the computer (I work from home). If I’m just jabbering with a friend, I still like headphones if they are handy. Pro-tip, turn the mic off before you take a pee.
I guess I was talking about my life before COVID. Now I work from home so I can set up anything I want.
Most professional (and for all I know amateur) hockey players play in the “opposite” direction. That is if you’re a righty in golf, say, your right hand is closer to the head of the club and your left side is facing forward on the fairway. The same is true of right-handed batters, But righty hockey players typically hold their stick with their left hand closer to the puck and when making a slapshot, their left side is closer to teh goal.
Right for everything except phone use for me.
The link demands your name and email. No idea who they are, not giving them the info.
And I’m not sure if I’m right handed. I’m more right than left handed now; but my mother told me I was left handed as a small child and switched myself over because I thought they’d make me switch at school (which probably wasn’t true.)
Which hand do you use for:
Writing – right, usually. My left-hand handwriting looks like a young child’s, and is slow (though possibly more legible than my current right hand writing.)
Cutting with scissors – usually right, but I easily switch to cut my nails, and sometimes use the left if it’s easier to get at whatever I’m cutting.
Holding a bat one-handed – don’t know. Haven’t held a bat since I was a child. If I were carrying one around it might be either. If I’m carrying something that only needs one hand significant distances I’ll usually switch off partway.
Eating with a spoon – right hand
Holding a toothbrush – right hand
Brushing your hair – both hands. Long tangly hair. The right side of my head brushing the hair from the top, and the left side brushing it from underneath, with my right hand. Vice versa with the left hand.
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope? – not sure. Would probably have trouble getting into focus with either, and would keep switching. (Glasses, very nearsighted, some astigmatism.)
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone? – right to start with, but switch around during long conversations. Left if I’m taking notes.
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball? – probably whichever one’s closer to the 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? – left
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding? – could be either
Which hand do you throw a ball with? – very badly with either
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book? – usually right, but could be either
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. – Haven’t used a bat in probably well over fifty years and have no idea. Will using a hoe do? Generally the left hand’s nearer the ground (and nearer the business end of the hoe) if I’m using a long-handled hoe. I’ll probably have a short-handled hoe in the right hand, though (that only uses one).
Mouse is on the right.
I’m not going to go through the whole list, but I am largely right handed in the typical things like writing, picking things up, and using my mouse. However, I am left handed when throwing a ball, holding a rifle or bow, and playing guitar. Not that I actually do play guitar or shoot weapons, but you know, when I mime it.
I do use my left for a lot of minor things, like turning pages or assembling something, and I don’t have any issue swapping hands if I need to for better positioning. Overall I’d say it’s a 60/40 split in favour of using my right.
I have a side question: how do so many of you know what eye you use for a telescope? I don’t have a telescope, don’t have access to one, and have no idea which eye I would use. Is there a Doper Telescope Club that I’ve missed out on? 
In the spirit of TMI, I’m a pure lefty, but I wipe my ass with my right hand.
When I was about 11, I tried to learn to throw with my right hand, because I wanted to play in the infield. I couldn’t make the switch.
Eventually, I learned to pitch, because I had a strong left throwing arm.
Perfectly centred. So what does that mean, I wonder.
That’s likely because virtually every pair of scissors you encounter is constructed in such a fashion that if you hold them in your left hand, the blades will be forced away from one another, which makes cutting anything nigh unto impossible.
This can be overcome, given practice and determination, but in my view, the skill is mostly useful as a party trick.
I’m naturally right side dominant, I do everything on the list right sided.
But, I can kick on my left foot but it is mechanical not natural.
I can use a computer mouse in either hand but it’s set up for a righty. Once for work, I was pouring through spreadsheets on the PC and making notes by hand. It drove me nuts having to keep taking the hand off the mouse to pick up the pen so I started using the mouse in the left hand which made it much quicker.
No, the classroom literally had both right-handed and left-handed scissors, but the left-handed ones were old and dull. So i decided to learn to use scissors with my right hand, despite identifying as “left handed”, having been taught to write in nursery school with my left hand.
I did, in fact, learn to use scissors with the “wrong” hand for the construction of the scissors, and I’m quite good at that. I often use right handed scissors with my left hand, for instance, to cut my nails. And sometimes it’s just easier to get at something with the left hand. But that was a skill i mastered later.
Fun fact: most people know that scissors are handed, and must scissors are designed for right handed people. Did you know that those little paper cups that are made by folding a flat piece of paper are usually handed? If you use your left hand and scrape a spoon in the obvious way, you jam the applesauce (or whatever) into the cracks, whereas if you use your right hand, you press the cracks closed.
Thanks everyone. I have compiled some statistics based on the answers so far.
A couple notes on my methods:
Which hand do you use for:
Writing Right - 22 (100%)
Cutting with scissors Right - 20 (95%); Either - 1 (5%)
Holding a bat one-handed Right - 16 (84%); Either - 3 (16%)
Eating with a spoon Left - 1 (5%); Right - 19 (90%); Either - 1 (5%)
Holding a toothbrush Right - 20 (95%); Either - 1 (5%)
Brushing your hair Right - 15 (83%); Either - 3 (17%)
Which eye do you use for looking through a telescope? Left - 6 (27%); Right - 13 (59%); Either - 3 (14%)
Which ear do you use when talking on the phone? Left - 8 (40%); Right - 9 (45%); Either - 3 (15%)
Which foot do you use when kicking a ball? Left - 2 (10%); Right - 16 (76%); Either - 3 (14%)
Fold your arms in front of you – which arm is on top? Left - 7 (32%); Right - 15 (68%)
When you start clapping your hands, which hand is on top? Left - 4 (19%); Right - 16 (76%); Either - 1 (5%)
Clasp your hands behind you back with one hand holding the other wrist - which hand is doing the holding? Left - 7 (33%); Right - 12 (57%); Either - 2 (10%)
Which hand do you throw a ball with? Left - 1 (5%); Right - 18 (78%); Either 4 (17%)
Which hand do you use to turn the pages in a book? Left - 1 (5%); Right - 16 (76%); Either - 4 (19%)
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. Left - 1 (5%); Right - 16 (84%); Either - 2 (11%)
Sorry, i missed that you were only interested in polling right handed people. Yeah, it’s right there in the title. I just wasn’t paying attention.
I identify as ambidextrous, and I’m not who you wanted to poll.
No worries! Just glad you’re not offended that I left you out so you wouldn’t skew the results!
Sorry I didn’t answer the individual questions but I would have answered ‘right’ to everything except my left arm would be on top if I crossed my arms and when I clap my hands neither is on top, the palms of both hands would be vertically oriented. So you can add me into those statistics if my responses weren’t counted before.
Sorry but this is a bit of an exageration. most players who are lefties, ARE lefties. There are a some players, pitchers in particular, who maybe ambidextrous and feel more comfortable throwing with their left hand but even fewer righties who have deliberately, been able train themselves to throw with their left hand and field with their right.
Batting tends more towards which side is more comfortable but also which is their dominant eye rather than handedness.
Holding a hockey stick is similar, whichever handedness is more comfortable but usually you want your dominant hand at the top of the stick which presumeably would use more of your fine motor control to maneuvre the stick and puck. The reverse, with your dominant hand on the shaft of the stick would give you more strength for shooting, passing, face-offs, digging, etc…
When I clap, even if my hands are vertically oriented, my right thumb is closer to my body than my left thumb, and the four fingers on my right hand are closer to my body than the four fingers on my left hand. I considered that to be my right hand on top, since my right fingers wound up higher than my left fingers.
This is a fair point, and I suppose I cheated with my answer. I haven’t looked in a telescope in god knows how long, but I remember testing for eye dominance before and know that my right eye is my dominant eye, so I just answered right eye for that reason.
Trying this out it looks like my left thumb is closer to my body. What I’m doing is holding my left hand mainly stationary and striking it with my right.