Left handed,right handed?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Rikky, Jun 7, 2006.

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Left Handed Right Handed?

Poll closed Jun 14, 2006.
  1. Left Handed

    11 vote(s)
    27.5%
  2. Right Handed

    29 vote(s)
    72.5%
  1. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

    So with all the geeky geniuses on here how many are left handed,I'm right handed,if there isnt anything to it the overall statistic should be around 10% of people in the forum are left handed if this number is greater there may be something in it,if less its balony or everyone is just pretending to be smart :)
     
  2. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    What if you're both, like me?
     
  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Alway has to be one wise-ass in the crowd!!!!
    LOL:) :) :)
     
  4. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

    It's a legitimate question, actually. I'm also ambidextrous.

    I usually claim left-handed, though, since I write much better with my left than my right. Pretty much everything else, though, I switch off hands depending on which one is more convenient and/or how tired I am.
     
  5. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    I'v thought about this I was gonna include an ambidextrous but I figured too many people would think they are ambidextrous when they arnt I'm not saying you arnt MC,to be trueley ambidextrous is VERY rare people sometimes think because they write with their left hand and do everything else with thier right hand they are ambidextrous when in fact they are right handed

    So to anyone else its the hand you prefer to do everything with not your writing hand,the hand that naturally always pick stuff up for example :)
     
  6. ShockTroop

    ShockTroop Specialist

    Right handed here.

    I've heard that left-handed people live a few years longer.
     
  7. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    I'd say I'm more coordinated with my right then.
     
  8. acejones

    acejones A Different Title

  9. gal1998

    gal1998 solo-cob

    Feeling pretty lonely in this poll. I am left-handed. Three of my children are, too. My husband and one daughter are right-handed, so they are very outnumbered in our house.
    There are some things i do better right-handed (playing softball, bowling) for mostly I am left.
     
  10. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    If you read the wikipedia article Gal it seems lefties have had a pretty tough time throughout history,in that sense your not alone :)
     
  11. G.T.

    G.T. R.I.P February 4, 2007. You will be missed.

    Do feet count? :confused:

    I'm right-footed.
     
  12. BCGray

    BCGray Guest


    Good Lord G.T. will you pleeeeeeeeeease put your socks back on, your smelling up the place:D :mad: :eek:

    I hate be like the majority but "Right Handed" I afraid
     
  13. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Just hands for this one :D You cant really do any skilled tasks with your feet apart form kicking stuff

    I know your gonna show me load of links to things you can do with your feet GT LOL :D
     
  14. jvk_goober

    jvk_goober Private E-2

    I am a righty... does anyone else feel like a complete Goof when doing tasks with your off hand.

    For example I shoot darts (poorly I might add) and to begin a game to start you do something called a dittle. each person throws a dart at the board off-handed and the closest to the bullseye goes first. When shooting with my off hand I look like I have never thrown darts in my life before and I feel like a goof some times
     
  15. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    I'm right-handed, but for certain things, like picking my nose or hitting people, I can use either.
     
  16. G.T.

    G.T. R.I.P February 4, 2007. You will be missed.

    Does that make you ambinoxious? :D
     
  17. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    LOL, yeah, something like that. :)
     
  18. sibeer

    sibeer MajorGeek

    At this point the poll percentage is whta you would expect. I'm totally right handed. The only thing I do left is shoot long gun. Incidently I rread somewhere that righties live seven years longer than lefties. I'll try and dig that up.
     
  19. sibeer

    sibeer MajorGeek

  20. dimpelss

    dimpelss Private E-2

    I am the only lefty in my household. I can be creative but I be thinking to hard :cool: Opps smart to
     
  21. ASUS

    ASUS MajorGeek

    Right is Wright, Left is Wrong, Oops thats something else:p

    I'm Mostly Right, ( my Wife is Always Wright, Ya right:rolleyes: )
    I can do most things as a lefty but I have to think about them.

    Righty Tighty, Lefty Lucy, Oops that reminds me of a girl friend:rolleyes:


    Hey try this
    While sitting at a chair (right or Left hand & right or left foot no matter)
    Use a hand & rub your belly clockwise tight circles (Ya I know sounds Kinky)
    Lift one foot off the floor a couple inches & rotate your foot counter clockwise tight circles.
    Can Ya do it??:p
     
  22. G.T.

    G.T. R.I.P February 4, 2007. You will be missed.

    You probably have a dominant left eye. For targetting, one eye will be stronger, and that's the one you usually sight with best.
     
  23. sibeer

    sibeer MajorGeek

    I can shoot either way just as good, but I pick up a rifle lefty. If it's a dominant eye it's sub-conscious for sure.
     
  24. Phantom

    Phantom Brigadier Britches

    Left Vs. Right hand preferences are primarily related to which hemisphere (right, or left one tends to think and perform tasks with more). Left hemisphere controls right side motor skills, and right side controlling left side motor skills.

    In addition, various mental functions and attributes are associated with each hemisphere, and different part of the brain in general.

    http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/dominance/index.htm

    http://www.funderstanding.com/right_left_brain.cfm

    I hasten to point out, however, most complex brain functions are performed by many areas of the brain, and as a consequence, involve both sides.

    With reference to right/left handedness:-

    http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html

    As for myself - apparently, I started off being ambidextrous, but slightly favouring my left hand. Social conformity and convenience resulted in me being 'converted' to right handedness for writing. Hence my handwriting is legible, but not that neat to this day, LoL!
     
  25. abri

    abri MajorGeek

    <pulls hair out of both sides of brain ... I keep losing my posts because it says I'm not logged in ... but I am weep weep ... and yes, my cookies are set>

    Why does the brain care which side it uses? Are the functions preassigned? Or do they develop after the choice is made? Anyone read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" by Oliver Sacks?

    abri
     
  26. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

    Well, then using that as the definition...I'm still ambidextrous. ;) :D
     
  27. Novice

    Novice MajorGeek

    Right handed!:)
     
  28. Strange1

    Strange1 Staff Sergeant

    Definately left-handed. All my musicial insts are left-handed. However, if I use two hands on something (besides musical insts), I generally do it righthanded. I eat, write, wave, pitch, operate a comp mouse etc... left, but bat (baseball) and shoot a rifle right (a bow left-handed). Saw with my left but use an axe right-handed if I use 2 hands. If it is a small axe (hatchet) than use it left. Shoot a pistol left handed. Along with that I am left footed. Noone else in my immed family is left-handed (parents, siblings, children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews. aunts and uncles. Just a weird throw-back, I guess.

    Jack
     
  29. QuickSilver

    QuickSilver Corporal

    Right handed... but Rikky, and I want you to be honest here, this poll and dig into wikipedia wasn't prompted by a certain Reality TV show currently dominating Channel 4s air time was it? ;)
     
  30. infoseeker

    infoseeker Master Sergeant

    Left handed when writings
    right handed on all other things (mouse, basketball etc..)

    but i vote on left handed
     
  31. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Look at the time of the first post then check the TV guide:)I flicked over for 5 mins got bored heard them talking about left handed intelligence and decided to check it out for myself on wikipedia and low and behold theres something in,maybe,hence the poll

    I'v been kinda watching Bigbrother,it just gets boring very quickly.I'd rather surf:)
     
  32. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    If only you had surf in Blighty. :)
     
  33. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    LOL guess where I'v just been?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighty

    Never heard that before :)

    Hmmm pole seems to suggest so far we have more lefties in here,interesting,not over yet though
     
  34. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan


    Prison or was it day release? :)
     
  35. martinch

    martinch Specialist

    Still not enough votes to be statistically significant, Maybe GT can fill us in on how many votes it will take to be real, but Im thinking it has to be over 1000. :)
     
  36. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Theres also the problem that most us are guys

    Insomniac it was a choice between pool table time and computer time,big bad bubba has stole some of the pool balls for a sock clubbing so I went for the computer hence the poll,they do let us stay up pretty late in these modern prisons,think I'll grab a shower while the soap rations are low :)
     
  37. cindysnoopy

    cindysnoopy Shotgun!

    Lefty here. I play hockey right handed, but only because I started out playing field hockey and they didn't have a left handed field hockey stick.
     
  38. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Just to be difficult. I am right handed in all sports that I play single handed, but anything, like cricket, that requires 2 hands, I am left handed. Also I have trained myuself to use my mouse left handed as it leaves the right hand free for typing. Give it a decent (long time) try as it increases productivity for 2 fingered typists like me. Bazza

    PS: Do I click right handed, or left handed? :confused: :p :D ;) Bazza
     
  39. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    LOL its like looking after kids :p Your playing kaplunk the rules are if any marbles fall through you get spit roasted mediun rare and fed alive to ants "very small ants" you have to chose a hand with which to remove a straw

    Its decision time which hand?No GT you cant use your feet :p :D
     
  40. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan


    I ask that same question every night. :D
     
  41. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

    Which side is the straw on? :D Seriously...if it was closer to my left, I'd use it. If it was closer to my right, then that's the one I'd use. :D
     
  42. MadEddi

    MadEddi Private E-2

    I'm left handed.

    My IQ was in the top 2% when i was last tested but i was 6yrs old at the time.

    I'm a bit older now so i've probably lost a few brain cells.
     
  43. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    I write right handed so that decides it for me. I've voted right. Bazza
     
  44. Lapsed

    Lapsed Corporal

    Im with the majority , Right handed.

    And im right handed with everything. If you catch my drift.
     
  45. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    The kaplunk is directly in fromt of you equal distance from each hand,your feet are cemented into the floor,you have to take a straw to live,its getting warmer the ants can smell you starting cook,you have to remove a straw or your toast and then food,which hand?

    Argh this geddin old!

    Alright your ambidextrous:) ,now move on, this poll is for people who can only co-ordinate half of their body :D
     
  46. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

    ROFLMAO!!! Fair enough! :D
     
  47. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Sorry to bump,need a few more votes before the end,it is the most important scientific discovery for mankind :D
     
  48. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    And the Poll is closed the results,there are 2.5 times as many left handers at MG than in the regular population or just over 150% more than in the regulaer population

    Left handers are smarter,rock solid scientific proof ;) :D
     
  49. BCGray

    BCGray Guest

    That can't be right Rikky cause your right handed;) :D
     
  50. abri

    abri MajorGeek

    Does this mean left-handed people give right-handed compliments?
    :D
    abri
     

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