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26 Jan 2012, 9:14 pm

I am left handed.

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27 Jan 2012, 4:04 am

Interesting how all these left handed people use a computer mouse with their right hand.
I wonder why that is. Maybe because it's just easier to leave the mouse on the right side where it is. Then people just get used to using it like that.

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27 Jan 2012, 4:11 am

pete1061 wrote:

I don't really know why I use a mouse with my right hand even though I'm left handed. It's easy enough to switch the mouse to the left side plus I use a wireless mouse. Even if I didn't the cords are usually long and can be plugged in on the left side.

I type with my left hand only and that leaves my right hand free to use the mouse at the same time if I even can. I need to look at the keys to type.

Edit: Maybe it was partly because I was on Webtv 10 years before I got my first computer? Webtv does not use a mouse. You navigate web pages by moving a cursor box with the arrow keys on the keyboard and they were in the lower right corner.

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27 Jan 2012, 5:56 am

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Yes, I began using it with my right hand because that's just where it was, and the thought never even occurred to me to try using it with my left hand. Now it would be too much of a hassle to try and relearn using a mouse with my left hand.

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27 Jan 2012, 2:32 pm

I think it all rides on how one started out using the mouse. Once the habit is established, it's tough to change it.

I started off from the get go moving the mouse to the left side when I first encountered the original mac back in '84.
Any time I use any computer I'll go moving the mouse to the left side. People always have something to say about me messing up their setup. Especially my older sister, but hey, it's a little brothers job to mess with older siblings.

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27 Jan 2012, 4:44 pm

mixed-handed

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27 Jan 2012, 4:50 pm

I am ambidextrous/mixed handed. Certainly has its advantages

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27 Jan 2012, 9:38 pm

Wow, what an interesting article.
I am a lefty and I am also certain that I struggled with dyslexia as a child, as well as poor concentration skills and immaturity, which meant that although I feel I am bright and intelligent, did poorly at school.
DS is also left-handed, and this may be because he was very small at birth (2kgs) and I had gestational diabetes during pregnancy and was on a very restricted diet.

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28 Jan 2012, 12:58 am

My dad was born left handed but he's ambidextrous now because he was forced to use his right hand when he was in school. I'm right-handed & I'm better at doing everything with my right except I only jerk-off with my left

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28 Jan 2012, 1:30 am

I'm part of that 1% that uses both hands. It depends on what I'm doing, whether I will use one hand over the other. Left hand does better with piano (quite fun to invert my synth's key arrangement, going high notes on the left low notes on the right, instead of low on left and high on right), but I normally write with my right hand; although an important note is that if I'm holding something with my right hand and don't want to put it down or switch hands, but I still want to write something, I'll just write it with my left hand.

Once, I did that while on the phone with someone, writing down an address; I wouldn't have even realized I was using the wrong hand to write if my mom hadn't noticed it and said something.

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28 Jan 2012, 3:00 am

the only things i can't do with my right hand, would be writing and brushing my teeth.

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28 Jan 2012, 4:33 am

nick007 wrote:

except I only jerk-off with my left

cool

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28 Jan 2012, 4:36 am

Atomsk wrote:

I'm part of that 1% that uses both hands. It depends on what I'm doing, whether I will use one hand over the other. Left hand does better with piano (quite fun to invert my synth's key arrangement, going high notes on the left low notes on the right, instead of low on left and high on right), but I normally write with my right hand; although an important note is that if I'm holding something with my right hand and don't want to put it down or switch hands, but I still want to write something, I'll just write it with my left hand. Once, I did that while on the phone with someone, writing down an address; I wouldn't have even realized I was using the wrong hand to write if my mom hadn't noticed it and said something.

wow

you're exceptionally talented/gifted. :wtg:

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28 Jan 2012, 7:01 am

Lefty for most things, but oddly I always hold and smoke a cigarette with my right hand. I also play guitar / bass right handed (because that's how I was taught, and lefty guitars were (and still are) pretty rare.

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28 Jan 2012, 7:31 am

I am also on the left.

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31 Mar 2013, 10:14 am

Is it true that Left-handed people tend to be more gifted in the visual arts, like painting, drawing, etc.?

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