Left-handed people, what can you do with your right hand?

[raccoon]

(And keep it clean! LOL )

I learned to use scissors with my right hand--matter of necessity.

I can write with my right hand (as well as left), but it doesn't write very well.

Learned to mouse with my right hand too--just seems more convenient.

[Richardo]

1. Scissors, mouse, guitar, knife (table setting only) ...

...for food prep (chopping, dicing, etc) I use the knife left-handed.


That's about it.

[LaurenG]

2. I'm not left handed but my husband is

He can do everything with his right hand that he does with his left equally well, aside from writing.

[myrna minx]

3. I'm rather ambidextrous, so I can do most things with either hand. n/t

[BlueJazz]

29. Yep...I'm the same way.

:)

[BillStein]

4. I had an answer

but then I saw your first rule, in parentheses... oh well

[WinkyDink]

5. I MUST hold my glass in my right hand; use door keys; mouse; can-opener.

The Usual Gang of Right-Handed Utensils Suspects!

[raccoon]

6. Yes--"can-opener" --and car ignition switches. nt

[WinkyDink]

12. They've got us good on that last one!

[Jamastiene]

26. and gas and brake pedals too.

Don't forget that rule that we always are supposed to use our right foot for both the gas and brake.

[Fleshdancer]

7. scissors and mouse are the only things I do with my right hand

the mouse is just due to annoyance, but using scissors is something I naturally did right-handed from day one. All my right hand does is hold them and open/close them. I use my left hand to move the paper in whatever direction it needs to go.

Other than that, my right hand is just there for typing and helping my left hand carry large objects.

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. I write and eat with my left hand...

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...for everything else, I'm right-handed.
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When living in Germany, should I have had to write something in
public, it always drew attention... as I think at that point they
were STILL pretty much forcing all to learn to write with their
right hands (as did the Catholic faith in the U.S. -- though I
believe they gave that up way back in the 1950's).
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Left hand sinister, and all.
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[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. mouse. and some work related stuff. nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

10. Scissors and mouse.

I've never been able to use left-handed scissors. I can use a left-handed mouse (my mother uses one), but it's awkward.

There's a third thing, but I can't mention it. :blush:

[struggle4progress]

11. I'm right-handed -- and with my left, I can play rock-paper-scissors!

I'm talented that way :)

[mulsh]

13. I play guitar, mandolin, banjo etc right handed

I can do most things with both hands. I don't use scisors or sharp implements with my right hand.

[Ron Green]

16. I've never figured out why right-handed people play string instruments the way

they do. The notes and chords are what's happening, so how come they don't use their "dominant" hand to do that?

[eyepaddle]

19. A good question, it might have to do with bowing a violin or other string instruments

I've never played those so I don't know if using the bow is really complex or not.

It has always struck me that guitar is so freaking un-natural everybody has to learn from complete zero and I'm not sure if handedness one way or the other matters a lot.

Of course you c an only learn to play guitar for the first time once, so I'll likely never know....

[Jamastiene]

27. I've tried both ways.

Had I started on a left handed guitar, I would have been slightly better, I think. It is the picking hand that matters most when playing guitar, believe it or not.

[brendan120678]

20. Some folks I know...

are right handed, but has play guitar and bass left handed.

[cwydro]

14. I am right handed,

but can do just about everything with my left hand too...not so good at writing with it.

[proteus_lives]

15. Mouse.

Other then that, not much.

[kentauros]

17. Depends on what I'm doing.

Raking, sweeping and using chopsticks, then it's either hand, switching as I get tired.

Playing pool: left-handed

Everything else: right-handed.

Yep, another wyrd-o Lounge denizen

[eyepaddle]

18. Couple of thoughts: a lot of people would benefit from using the mouse

with their non-dominant hand. I'm the in house ergonomist (among other things) where I work, and when I meet with other ergonomists mouse use will come up--it has a tendency to realy tighten the muscles on the neck and shoulder of the user, this can be lessened if one gives their dominant hand a break.

I actually have a mouse on each side of my computer: a thumb ball on the right, and a vertical optical on the left, I use them about evenly.

And it is kind of a complicated story, but the short version is I am ambidextrouos.

[Habibi]

21. Everything except write.

[LisaM]

22. Cut, throw darts

mouse if I have to - I don't like to. Use a stick shift. Open doors - dial (or punch numbers in, I should say) a phone - all those things set up for north paws.

[marzipanni]

23. Yes, do keep your right hand clean.

And in Arab countries don't eat with your left hand...

<snip>
Arabic culture
Why is the left hand considered unclean?

http://www.justlanded.com/english/Dubai/Forums/Culture/Arabic-culture

(some funny & interesting answers here)

[Bucky]

24. As stated in the OP, I can "keep it clean" with my left hand.

[Jamastiene]

25. Play guitar, use my mouse, use the touchpad on the laptop...

arm wrestle*, and stuff you said not to mention because you wanted us to keep it clean. :evilgrin:

I got a pair of left handed scissors when I was a kid. I still have them. I never could learn to use scissors right handed.

Also, when I first started learning how to write, I wrote mirror writing, perfectly. You could literally hold it up to a mirror and read what I wrote. They tried to figure out :wtf: was wrong with me and found out the teacher said to hold our pencils in our hand and go to the opposite side of the page from the hand holding the pencil...so I did. I wrote from right to left and wrote all my letters backwards. I know kids sometimes write some letters backwards, but I wrote all of my letters backwards. The teacher had to take time to completely re-teach me how to write. I can still write mirror writing just as easily as writing forward. Actually, I find it easier to write backwards.


*I have more dexterity on my left hand/arm/leg, but more strength on my right side. It's weird.

[Demoiselle]

28. Mouse. And flipping a fan open and shut. I was in the Mikado once, and

we all had to snap our little fans open and shut together on cue. I was quite a picture, all 5 foot ten of me, dressed up as a geisha.
I learned to bat (basball) right handed because I'm a girl and nobody felt it was worth any trouble to teach me to bat left handed.
So I bat right handed and catch (sometimes, if I'm lucky) left handed. Which makes me virtually useless.
But I wouldn't have been any use on a baseball field anyway, even right-handed.

I'm told that it's easier to learn a new skill with your "off" hand. I was certainly a talented fan snapper.

[Jamastiene]

30. I batted both left and right handed, but

could not, for the life of me, throw right handed. I was used to playing with baseballs. So, when they went to sign me up for little league baseball, the park here said no girls allowed in baseball, only T-ball. Add to that, girls' T-ball was played with a softball. Why? I don't know. They never answered that question to my satisfaction even though I hated softballs.

So, my glove (for left handed fielders) was too small to play with a softball. I had/have small hands so my glove was small to fit my size. So, I had to use a glove for right handed people and throw right handed. I hated it from the get go. They also had to teach me to throw underhanded. So, there I was, trying to learn to throw a softball underhanded AND with my right hand and catch with my left hand.

That didn't work out too well at all.

I didn't think that girl would ever come to. It went to throw to home to get a runner out and the ball went way up in the air, then came straight back down and smacked the girl playing second base right on top of the head. She was out cold for what seemed like hours to me. They told me it was minutes and that I didn't kill her, but I still never used the glove for right handed people again. I just learned how to catch a softball with my little glove and adjusted. I played much better after that and got MVP, even though I almost killed a girl. I never stopped apologizing to her. She finally started avoiding me because she was tired of me apologizing. I couldn't help it. I felt so bad about it.