I play fingerstyle and find the right hand technique to be more complicated than the left hand. All the muting, percussive effects, and most of the articulation and counterpoint is done with the right hand, at least the way I play. I never tried playing with a pick, but I’d imagine that would be easier because there’s only one moving part.
It was hard for me to get the wrist articulation right when playing cello or bass with a bow, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with me or if it’s just a really unnatural motion
When it comes to ‘sneaky’, I’d argue that nothing beats molecular chirality. That’s a handed-ness that takes specialist knowledge and equipment to even detect; but it has biological implications.
I heard that the convention of women’s vs. men’s button-down shirts going left-over-right vs right-over-left was created because back in the day women were always dressed by servants or handmaidens or whatever but men dressed themselves, and everyone was expected to be right handed of course so they had to make all women’s garments left-over-right and vice versa.
Anyway I’m a lefty and I just got used to women’s shirts at first but now I wear both and it really makes no difference.
I’ve never had a problem with different setups. In fact, one of my bikes has the brakes set up the “wrong” way, and I never bothered to change it (even though it would be pretty easy). I would have trouble writing with my left hand or doing other tasks requiring fine motor skills, but there’s no real difference in strength.If you do have trouble using one side, you can just get a dual brake lever that pulls both brakes (or use backpedal brakes):
I also don’t have a preference for driving in the UK or in mainland Europe/US, although I often have trouble telling left from right as the road is just flipped in my mind. It might be more difficult if you were driving a LHD car in a RHD country, or vice versa. Interestingly enough, Myanmar/Burma changed from LHD to RHD in 1970, but most of their vehicles are from Japan, Thailand or Singapore and still have the driver’s seat on the right.
The charging plug of my laptop is on the left side. So it’s in the way of where I want my mouse when I’m using one. That may be the final thing that puts me off Lenovo laptops for good.
And I buy lefty fabric scissors because everyone else in my house is a righty. I know they won’t use them; I’ve seen right handers try to use lefty scissors and they’re totally baffled. Because THEY never have to adapt to scissors that hurt your hands to use!
Well… it’s complicated. But I’d say they kinda are.
There are two ways to route the brake cables, obviously - American style, and Euro style (front on the right).
But beyond that, there’s only one way for the shift cables to go; rear on the right and front on the left (or the only shift lever on the right). Given that you need to shift the rear far more often than the front, it can be argued that on a geared bike, American style is wrong.
Since the rear brake is relatively useless, particularly in an emergency, you want that brake on the same side as your rear shifting, for those times when you’re using a hand for something like taking a drink, or carrying something, etc. Also, with STI levers, it’s possible to brake and downshift with one movement.
I rode American style for thirty years before realising it was wrong, and despite the hassle of re-training my muscle memory (which led to bruised ribs on one drunken occasion), I found it worthwhile to switch.
As for hand signalling, meh - I almost always signal my intent by my position on the road instead, and I generally don’t rely on motorists correctly anticipating what I’m doing.
You saw the bit about signaling right? (Already made the exact same comment in the original thread and also covered braking technique there as well. )That’s the only reason behind the brake cable routing.
Maybe I’m a bit more ambidextrous but the notion that you need the lever you use the most near your dominant hand seems a bit wimpy.
Spinners yes, conventional “drum” type no. What bizarre and inexplicable (yes I’ve asked lots of old timers) is that righties reel spinners with their left hands and conventional with their right. But they will hold the latter with their right hand while fishing to control the line with their right thumb, then when they’ve hooked a fish transfer it to their left to reel. It’s insane. A handful of righty old timers admit they use a lefty reel.
I’m confused, most mice are symmetrical and the buttons are easily remapped. If I were lefty though I’d be seriously pissed about the dearth of thumb trackballs, my favored pointer.
Oh FFS, grenades are plenty ambidexterous. Pull the pin, hold down the spoon, throw. I guess if you’re a total klutz then maybe pulling the pin in a left-handed fashion might be slightly more likely to release the spoon prematurely, but anyone who knows how a grenade works will be fine.
On the other hand, if you try to fire most military rifles from the wrong shoulder, you will end up with hot brass getting thrown right in your face. It’s a legitimate issue of ergonomics. With a grenade, you can just flip the thing upside down and it’s perfectly laid out for a lefty.
You can open up the transmitter and swap the joysticks.
I’m really strongly righty, but I was a pretty serious poolplayer and there’s a great advantage to playing ambidextrously and not having to use a bridge, so I painstakingly taught myself to be moderately good lefty. So I have a bit of sympathy for the lefties in the righty environment.
Lefty fun fact: most Muppets are left handed, since righty puppeteers have their right hand up a puppets ass. They’re controlling the dominant hand with their left, sometimes an assistant puppeteer does the right.
yes to both of those. My roommate’s mom moved and dropped off an old bolt-action .22 varmint rifle that she didn’t want. It was in bad repair so I got all the rust off and oiled etc and my roomie gave it to me when he moved out. the bolt-action is beautiful in it’s simplicity and utility. but man, I never realized what a clusterfuck they are to shoot lefty. I pretty much never shoot it anyway, since I live in the city.
A buddy had a 9mm pistol that was a design IIRC from the Bosnian conflict that was truly ambidextrous. I can’t remember how it worked anymore but I remember I could actually use the safety.
not obscure or sneaky, but nobody’s mentioned cameras yet.
anything I’ve used all my life doesn’t faze me to use righty, though. scissors, cameras, whatever, I don’t give it the slightest thought.
I just realized the number pad and door hinge on my microwave is set up for right-hand convenience. never dawned on me actually using it, but keys on the right, hinge on the left.
