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View Poll Results: What is your "handed-ness"?
Left-Handed 26 21.31%
Right-Handed 80 65.57%
Cross-Dominated (Ambi-Dextrous) 16 13.11%
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Old 11-09-2006, 06:41 AM
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Are you Right handed, Left handed or Cross-dominated?
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Old 11-09-2006, 06:48 AM
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I'm left-handed.
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Right-handed, at this moment.
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I'm right-handed by nature, but I'm also a guitar player. Does that mean I'm cross-dominated? Would a piano player be considered cross-dominated?
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I'm right-handed by nature, but I'm also a guitar player. Does that mean I'm cross-dominated? Would a piano player be considered cross-dominated?

You are what you choose to be. I'm a guitar player too. I can write with both hands but I've been using my right hand since childhood so I prefer that. I am left-eyed when I do photography and I use the knife, screw-driver with my left-hand but use the right for using scissors.

Piano players do require a great deal of ambi-dexterity (I play the keyboards). The left hand is solely for harmonies and the righ is for melodies. So I guess it all comes down to what you choose to be.

I can say that I'm right handed simply because I write right-handed, but I know I'm cross-dominated because I can do a lot of other activities equally good with both hands (throwing, catching etc.)

So its upto you to choose.
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Old 11-09-2006, 09:13 AM
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I'm right handed
But left footed

wat a freak!

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Ambidextrous. Piano and guitar player.
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I'm right handed.

Ambidextrous would be so cool, being equally skilled in fine movements with both hands.
I do switch my mouse to my left hand sometimes when the right hand begins to complain, does that count?
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Ambidextrous, to a point. I write with my right (my handwriting is better that way, lol) but do everything else with my left.
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Left handed and right footed.
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Also left-handed and right-footed. Weird, huh?
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Left-handed in all pursuits, except for mouse-ing!
Not sure why that is, just never thought to put it on the other side of the keyboard.

Interesting side-note: I play guitar left-handed, but always think it looks freaky when I see left-handed guitarists in film clips.

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Fascinating.

At first I thought this to be a pretty unimaginative poll. Kind of a "who cares" topic.

I apologize.
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Wow! so far the righties outnumber the combined mass of lefties & ambies in this forum. Much like real world I say
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Left-handed in all pursuits, except for mouse-ing!
Not sure why that is, just never thought to put it on the other side of the keyboard...
Thats so funny! I thought I was the only one out there with this idiosyncrasy.
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Well, I do think it's a thing that it doesn't matter much unless you're a musician of a sport pro or so...

That thing of the mouse could give a clue that no-one is lefthanded or righthanded really and we are all ambidextrous really... I don't know.

For instance a piano player develops ambidexterity usually... but he would have problems to do the things he use to do with the right hand playing them with the other hand and the same for oppossite hands.
All I know that for me both sides of my body have the same learning ability.
I think that happens to many many people, not a little minority.
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I guess there's a bit of ambi-dexterity in all of us! We're all freaks by nature! (not intended to be offensive in anyway)
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I've used my right hand all my life, but have trained my left hand to become near equal. I went from writing chicken scratch with my left hand to being able to draw with it within a few months.

I tend to use my left hand for certain tasks, and my right hand for other ones. Or whichever hand is most convenient at the time.
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Dextral, but wish I were cross-dominated.

My entire left side is much better at staying power, but is much weaker in the short-term. Which means I end up fighting with my right side leading most of the time, but I've gone against so many left-handed and competent people that I can do that pretty evenly.

Out-of-pratice piano player. The reason piano is inherently right-handed is because the left is bass, which is better for harmony, and the right is melody. But the more advanced you get, the less this ends up mattering, because the left gets so frikkin' complicated.

I wish I considered my piano playing important enough to devote time to it, but alas, it remains on my list wishful and regretful.
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I am even handed
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Ambi-dextrous. I do most things with left except writing. Its funny. I was always told I put my belt on backwards. I wear my watch on my right arm because I can't get my right had to work right to get it on left. Oh and I play mini golf left handed. Although when my hubby taught me real golf I had no choice but to learn right handed. I ALWAYS open jars and bottles with my left hand except those that require bottle opener.

I just use a combo of both. I was always right handed with writing but started working on left hand writing in high school and do quite well with it now.
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Right handed.
But I do draw or try to write with my left hand just for fun. (and i play piano)
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Right now, I work right handed. However, my left eye is dominant. I was told that when I was four or so, I attended a pre-kindergarden class run by a local Catholic church. According to my parents, the penguins (nuns) were very upset that I was trying to write left-handed, and they tried to break me of that bad 'habit'. I can just imagine them shouting 'Sinestra!' at me as they slapped the crayon out of my left hand with a yardstick. My handwriting never has been very good, probably because of that early experience. I tried writing left-handed a few months ago, only to find that I couldn't do it. I had absolutely no fine motor control, and the end-result looked worse than a child's scrawl. I may try to improve on this in the future, although right now, I just don't have the time. Fortunately, I can type, although the luddite in me wishes that I didn't have to be chained to a keyboard in order to express myself.
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I'm right handed for writing, mousing, most intricate stuff and throwing. I'm a lefty for eating, opening doors, carrying things and lifting anything heavy.
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