Comments on: Mixed Handedness: Bridging The Gap Between Left And Right

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:16:28 +0000

@ Kat, most people prefer their right ear, but this preference is not correlated with handedness. Strange, huh?

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:54:20 +0000

I always thought I was left handed, but when I paid more attention, I realised my left hand is the dexterous (irony) one, while my right is the strong one. I scored 0.1. But I think I am becoming more right handed with age?

PS maybe the knife question can also mean about buttering your bread?

PPS I was forced to use left handed scissors as a child, because I was a left handed writer, but I hated them! I’ve always been better at scissoring with my rightie..

PPPS A question- wonder if what ear you use to listen on the phone is an indicator?

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:35:58 +0000

I am mixed handed. The handedness tests messes with my mind because when I have just sit and think about I am not sure on some tasks. I write left handed, eat with fork and spoon in left hand and knife always in right hand. I throw right handed but can play ping pong and use a mouse left or right handed. I hold a cup in my left hand unless I am eating a sandwich then I hold the sandwich in my left hand and the cup in my right hand. When I open a jar I start with one hand then shift to the other if I am having trouble opening it. I use keys in my right hand because it is hard to start a car with the keys in my left hand. I used to skate and would jump right handed and spin left handed. If someone yells at me to turn left or right when I am driving it’s anybody’s guess as to what happens.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:32:25 +0000

I forgot one thing. I play sports including basketball righty, but I amazed my coach when I switched hands in the air and made a left handed lay up. I didn’t know I could do that.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:25:53 +0000

I’m +.1. I write, draw lefty, use mouse lefty, broom lefty. Throw and hit, play guitar, and play golf righty. But I couldn’t get the left and right together to play piano. I can use chopsticks and play raquetball lefty and righty. I actually pissed off my brother by beating him in raquetball as a righty and then I switched to lefty and I beat him again. We haven’t played since. But as a soccer goalie, I kicked righty.

Weird thing happened to me in the first class back from vacation in early grade school. I couldn’t remember what hand I wrote with. I was literally blank. No frickin clue. I tried both hands. And at that age, my handwriting was horrible both ways. But that didn’t stop my idiot self from asking a classmate, “which hand do I write with? I can’t remember.” Yeah, that’s the look he gave me. My brother is lefty so I figured I should be lefty too — never realizing at that age that my brother being adopted wouldn’t really play a part in which hand I could write with. In any case, my lefty writing was only slightly neater and more comfortable my righty writing. I can still write (and print) with both hands, but righty is messier. If I focus only on the word I’m trying to write and not focus on getting my right hand to write it, it comes out much neater — same thing for raquetball. I can hit the ball better lefty if I focus on the ball and not on trying to make my left arm swing.

I also have migraines. I get tingling and auras (blind spots that look like shimmering rattle snakes) about 40 minutes before the pain hits. Supposedly the migraine can be on the right or left side, but I honestly can’t remember. You would think I would having so many of them over the years.

I’m gifted with creative skills in drawing, photoshop, and I have made my own computer programs. I’m a Sagittarius. And I love animals more than people. How many doggie douchbags do you know? Exactly.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:07:55 +0000

I scored 0.0, but I feel 90% left-handed. From as far back as I can remember, I used my left hand for EVERYTHING but writing & eating (I eat comfortably with my right hand, unless I’m using a fork & knife, at which point I more naturally use my left). When I first learned to iron, my older sisters would always yell at me for facing the ironing board the “wrong” way & ironing w/the “wrong hand.” I paint (a house) with my left hand. Other things I do left-handed: brush my teach, golf, play a guitar, bat a softball/baseball, throw a ball (and then put the glove on my left hand to catch!), point at things, bowl, fence, start walking with my left foot, mix ingredients in a bowl. But I’m right-eyed. I don’t know if that goes back to my PAL rifle shooting days as a child when I was fitted w/a right-handed shooting jacket & taught to use a rifle using my right eye to aim. I’m VERY interested in learning about whether the effects of being mix-handed affect other parts of the brain, or have anything to do with ADD in adults. I believe I grew up with ADD, but it was not a known issue back then, and wonder if all this had anything (or EVERYTHING) to do with it. Please keep me posted! I’d be willing to consider tests …

By: Clare

Clare — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:08:45 +0000

I scored -0.4. I was naturally left handed but my first grade teacher forced me to write with my right hand. I have terrible penmanship but I can draw very well.
I play sports (lacrosse, baseball etc) lefthanded and naturally use a fork left handed.
I see myself as a left hander who writes with the wrong hand.

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:04:55 +0000

@ Jo Ann, I have some problems with that study, starting with their claim that 1% of all people are mixed-handed. It's really more like 42%, so I don't know what their definition of mixed-handed is. I've heard that ambidextrous people may be brain damaged, and that could be true, but let's not confuse that with being mixed-handed. Almost nobody is even close to being truly ambidextrous, especially not naturally so, far less than 1% of the population.

By: Jo Ann Reagan

Jo Ann Reagan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:46:52 +0000

I scored -4. What do you think about the sudy by Alina Rodrigues, et. al. that is being publicized today (1/26/10) saying that mixed handed children have more of a tendency toward difficulty with language and math, and have more “mental” issues?

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:26:31 +0000

When I was 9 years old, teacher called me to the board to work a math problem. After working the problem, she said, “I thought you were left handed.” Thats the first time I realized that I perfer to do somethings right handed, like write on a chalk board. I bat, throw and catch right handed, shoot pool and golf left handed. I eat, draw and write left, shoot a pistol right, but can paint, hammer and use other handtools equally well with either hand. My dad is the only lefty out of seven siblings born to right handed parents. He is one of those “can’t do anything with his right hand” lefties. My only sibling, a brother, is likewise a strong lefty. I got the mixed handedness.