Handedness

[mugbull]

Eventually I will figure out how to make a poll. In the meantime, how many of you guys are chillers, and how many are right-handed?

[Pepe]

Chillers?

[Yevrah]

I'm right handed, but haven't really thought about that since I was about 5.

[Pepe]

I'm left handed. Kick the ball better with the right foot though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm left handed for the important things in life (writing, cricket), but actually do a lot of other stuff with my right hand. I'm a complete retard playing tennis left handed, for example, and yet in cricket it's the other way round.

[mugbull]

I wonder if we'll discover statistically significant discrepancies, i.e. online autists are more likely to be left-handed, sad people are likely to be right handed, etc. I think (?) left-handed people generally have higher IQs so that might be us.

[Lewis]

Right, although I think my left arm is actually stronger.

[Vim]

Right handed, can't do much with my left hand but my left foot isn't far behind the right when playing football. I'd call it neither-footed rather than either-footed though.

[Giggles]

Right, except for pool and wanking.

[Weaver]

I'd give my left hand to be ambidextrious.

I'm right handed.

[simon]

I'm left handed for the important things in life (writing, cricket), but actually do a lot of other stuff with my right hand. I'm a complete retard playing tennis left handed, for example, and yet in cricket it's the other way round.

I'm much the same. I write with my left hand, will throw things with my left hand, but play all racquet sports with my right hand.

For golf it feels like I want to be left-handed, though I've been told I have a better swing when I play right-handed.

[Toby]

My dad is left-handed, which made him completely useless at teaching me - a right-hander - how to tie my shoelaces.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I play golf right handed but am disproportionately good at the left handed trick shots out of bushes and up against trees.

I wonder how much of it is just deep seated habit. There is no logical reason why I should use a cricket bat left handed, but a golf club or tennis racquet right.

[Mazuuurk]

I remember when I played Golf the first time it was really difficult to determine if I was left or right. I'm right-handed, but I play floorball (like indoor hockey sort of) and the common grip there for right-handed people is to play left-handed (as in left hand the lowest). Since a golf club is, essentially, also a stick with a rectangle at the bottom - I ended up doing left after much switching back and fourth for a while.

[Nick]

Left handed.

I play cricket left handed, but golf right handed. Can't use left handed scissors and, if I were to punch someone, I'd use my right fist.

Does that make me an ambiretard?

[Spammer]

Left handed here.

[Luke Emia]

I'm a full on ambiretard. As a child I would write with my left hand. However, going to a catholic school and it being a sign of the devil I was made to write right handed. However, now if I do something naturally I will always do it left handed I just write with my right hand.

[ScousePig]

All left foot and left handed at everything except snooker, holding my knife and fork (knife in the right hand) and choking the chicken.

[ScousePig]

I keep seeing ambi-retard as ambire-tard.

Does that just make me a retard??

[Bernanke]

Right-handed but left-footed. :uhoh:

[leedsrevolution]

I always felt more natural writing with my left. But was pretty much forced to use my right which I still do even though it's unreadable. I'm fine with both feet and use my left hand for everything other than writing.

[ScousePig]

I always felt more natural writing with my left. But was pretty much forced to use my right which I still do even though it's unreadable. I'm fine with both feet and use my left hand for everything other than writing.

Forced by who?

[randomlegend]

I'm totally an utterly right-handed. I use my knife and fork the 'wrong' way but that's nothing to do with handedness.

I do remember that when I was at school I could only use left-handed scissors but in my right hand.

All you lot doing half the things right-handed and half left need to sort yourselves out.

[Ian]

I am right-handed and I don't think there's anything I do left handed.

I suppose I open jars and screwcaps with my left but I assume that's because ol' righty is going to be holding them in place.

[ScousePig]

On a slightly related note, I've never mastered the correct way to hold scissors.

[Benny]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.

[Disco]

Not on the road, only in karts or offroad.

[Spammer]

I always felt more natural writing with my left. But was pretty much forced to use my right which I still do even though it's unreadable. I'm fine with both feet and use my left hand for everything other than writing.

Have you ever had a problem with stuttering?

I've been told that writing with the wrong hand can cause stuttering problems if it's done often.

[Pepe]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.

Karting background makes me not too bad at it. Of course since I've always had cars with manual transmissions my left is stuck dealing with the clutch. Heel 'n' toeing in a car not designed for it, now that's horrific.

[Giggles]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.

First time I ever drove an auto my brain defaulted to this and it was horrendous.

[CJay]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.

Done it once or twice absent-mindedly. It's scary when you do it, just a total lack of control. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.
Once, but in an automatic as I thought it would be more efficient. I was wrong.

Oh and I'm all right.

[Benny]

Mental isn't it, your brain thinks your applying the slightest touch and it's as if you slammed your foot down.

[Pepe]

Full stop every time basically.

[Toby]

I gave it a go the last time you brought it up, and can only echo all the above. Can't think how you would end up doing it "absent-mindedly" though.

[Giggles]

It's like the first time I drove a LHD manual too. Any LHD before was auto so for the first 10 minutes or so my brain defaulted to there being no clutch. Every time I had to stop I just hit the brake and stalled the car and kept reaching for the gear stick on my left.

[Weaver]

Anyone ever tried using their car brakes with their left foot? Horrific.

I was convinced I was through the windscreen when I tried it a few years ago.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and I've just remembered that I did it in my first car on the A1(M) once.

Luckily it was empty and I managed to skid it towards the hard shoulder.

I almost shat my pants.

[Spammer]

It's because you've got nothing to pivot against if both your feet are on the pedals.

[Matt]

I'm left handed for the important things in life (writing, cricket), but actually do a lot of other stuff with my right hand. I'm a complete retard playing tennis left handed, for example, and yet in cricket it's the other way round.

I bat and bowl right handed but when fielding I throw with my left hand

[mugbull]

The only i do with my right hand is use my computer mouse. But does anyone not do it that way? I met a guy who had a ball he rolled around with his palm that functioned as a mouse but thats just weird shit, not left-handed mousing

[ScousePig]

Left-hand mousing for me.

[mugbull]

Absurd.

[Raoul Duke]

Left-handed/footed but I play guitar/catch/throw naturally with my right.

Ambidextrous FTW

[Luca]

Right-handed and footed. I'm useless with my left hand/foot.

[Blitz]

I'm pretty ambidextrous. Bat right, bowl and throw left. Write with my right hand. Tennis left handed. Football left footed, but equally comfortable with my right foot on a normal pass, left foot for the big ones. Golf right handed.

Jip, shit's crazy over here.

[DC]

I used to be more ambidextrous than I am today, I think through lack of practice more than anything. I used to catch, throw, bat, pass, bowl, play snooker equally well with either hand, but recently discovered my left handed throwing / bowling has fallen apart. I don't give most things a though which hand I use, but I know I weird people out occasionally by switching hands without thinking.

Meanwhile I am left footed in every single way imaginable, it's not that my right foot is terrible (I think it's more accurate and less spoony), just my instinct is now overwhelmingly tied to that foot. I have a theory that I am left footed because I have a phobia about falling / heights, so I used my strongest leg to plant with and flail away with my left. It's now so ingrained I can't undo the programming.