Went to slingshot left-handed, which led to shooting a bow left-handed, led to pretending to shoot a rifle left-handed…also play air-guitar/ rock band left handed.
But it all started because I shoot rubber-bands left handed. And THAT i am a Hawkeye-level marksman at, having been known to flick a light-switch off or shoot a cigarette out of someone’s hand from across the room.
But it all stems from mistakenly (?) thinking i need the right hand to aim/do the more dexterious task.
Edit: At least I THINK a right-handed person is supposed to pull back the rubber band with his right hand. I pull back with my left hand. Mind you this is for people that use two hands to shoot as opposed to creating a pistol with your hand to shoot,
This wasn’t exactly accidental: Learned to use a right-handed mouse with my left hand. That leaves the right hand free for, e.g., writing things.
Nobody ever taught me the proper way to handle silverware when eating, so I had to figure it out for myself. Thus, I very sensibly don’t keep shifting the fork back and forth from one hand to the other. This has led people to ask me, at various times, if I’m left-handed or if I’m British.
I am all these things, starting not from slingshot but from throwing a ball left-handed. However, I don’t think one caused the other, it’s just natural tendency, and most of us have one or two things we do cackhandedly.
Cutting with scissors right-handed. I never encountered left-handed scissors in early elementary. Then, first time I did, they’d implemented it wrong! (The finger and thumb holes were contoured for the left hand – so what? They still had the two blades on the wrong side of each other so that pulling with your fingers while pushing with your thumb splayed them farther apart when doing that is supposed to pull them more tightly together so they slash through the paper or cloth more efficiently).
I can cut with either hand but still normally do it right-handed style.
I am left-handed and did have the option of left handed scissors in kindergarten. But they were old and dull. So i chose to teach myself to cut right-handed.
I’ve also since learned to use right handed scissors with my left hand. It’s an unnatural action, since you need to pull on the blades when you want to push on them. But I’m quite good with scissors with either hand.
I can’t say it’s accidental, but for some reason even though I’m right handed, I can do a one handed cut of playing cards much better with my left hand.
One of my brothers was taught to shoot pool by our left-handed grandfather, and I don’t think he ever plays right-handed.
I’m almost militantly right-handed, but when I was in college I used to occasionally switch to playing ping-pong left-handed in mid-game just to mess with my opponent.
I’m right handed but left eye dominant. I don’t know how that happened but here I am. I typically fire a rifle from my left shoulder but use a pistol in my right hand. But I’m pretty good at using a pistol with my left hand.
Its not exactly a skill, but it’s kinda notable because I’m so completely right-sided. The glass door to the furnace has hinges on the right, handle on the left. The only way to clean the soot off/polish it is left-handed. It seemed almost impossible at first, but its pretty natural now.
In a right-handed world, I guess it’s pretty odd that this is a left-handed appliance. Either that, or most right handed people don’t want to watch the flames.
I’m ambidextrous, so my “off hand” is far more useful than that of many people. I would say writing left-handed would be it. I taught 2nd grade for ten years before I got into the tech aspect of education. When teaching cursive, I noticed that my left-handed kids were at a disadvantage in some ways, so I learned to write the letters left-handed as well so that they could better model what I was doing.
The 2nd thing would be firearms. My dad started teaching me at ten years of age, starting with gun safety. When he finally let me fire his 9 mm at the range, I naturally picked it up and used it with my right hand. However, when he finally let me fire a rifle, I picked it up and held it to my left shoulder. He said, “You’re holding it wrong.” I said, “This is the way I want to hold it.” That was that. LOL
I’m left-handed, but exclusively use a computer mouse with my right, it’s just about the only thing I do right-handed. When I first started using computers that had mice, it was very uncomfortable and awkward, but I was using them in computer labs where my options for changing the mouse around and button orientation were either annoying or sometimes impossible, so I just had to force myself to keep using it right-handed. Eventually it “felt” okay, and now if I try to use a mouse left-handed it feels wrong.