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I'm "left-handed," but only because that's the hand I use to write. most other things I actually do right-handed. for me, things that use fine control, or a small tool, are easier with my left hand (e.g. using a pen, fork, toothbrush, fingering guitar strings, etc.), and things that are more large, broad motions or require strength (using a hammer, saw, baseball bat, lifting and throwing, strumming/plucking guitar strings) are easier with my right
I have been told I eat right handedly despite being left handed. How? I am using a spoon or fork, so the fork goes in the left hand.
I use the mouse with my right because that is where it has always been. But I kinda suck at quick fine pointing, the more an game relies on twitch reactions/aiming the worse I am at it, and by a lot. Slower paced ones or ones where you dont need much accuracy I can do OK in.
So war thunder I do really well in because you usually have multiple seconds to work with as the turret rotates, but CSGO there isn't even a point in trying. Genuinely 2 kills 10 deaths kinda bad.
As a fellow lefty, I feel your pain. I love competitive shooters but I will never climb above the bottom rung of Gold tier.
i've never understood people who say you hold the knife with your dominant hand, i'm as right handed as it gets and i hold my fork in the right hand because i want maximum control over the thing holding the food!
Sure, that leaves the knife hand with less power and precision, but like if i need that much force then something has gone wrong when cooking..
I was out to dinner with my family a while back and when I ended up sitting on the right side of the bench my brother made a comment about how I wasn't going to be able to cut my food right handed for some reason. I was like... What? And just switched hands back and forth several times while I was doing it to demonstrate. I didn't even realize that was a thing people worried about.
That's the right-handed way, is it not? Dominant hand holds the knife.
Tbh I often don't use a knife, just fork or spoon. When I do have a knife it goes in my normally unused right hand.
Not in ‘Murica.
Really? Damn, TIL.
It’s one of the thousands of dead giveaways that a European tourist is a ‘murican.
Same, left is precision stuff, right is power
Pretty much same as me. When trying new sports or activities, bowling, golf, whatever, I spend a lot of time trying to work out which works best for me.
When I was in my early 20's with a terrible data input job I would use the mouse in my left hand so my right hand was mostly for the num pad on the keyboard. Efficient. But when I played pc games in the evenings I used my right hand - don't know why, just seemed to work. These days I use only.my right hand on the mouse but can happily switch if I have muscle strain or whatever.
I'm the same way for the most part. The only reason I'm right handed at specific things is because those things were made to be done by right handed people. Computer mice, guitar, etc. I know there are lefty versions but you have to go out of your way to get them.
Also, I think the convention of right handed/left handed guitar is backwards. It should be based on fretting hand, not strumming hand. Although I play the standard right handed guitar, it felt natural for me to fret with my left hand. Lots of lefty guitar players are otherwise right handed people