How Right- or Left-Handed Are You?


 
I'm 100% left. Daughter is too but can change up more.

We went to a virtual driving range last weekend and they just gave us both right handed clubs. It felt awful and had to ask for lefties. I can use a bow ok just shooting targets, though tend to hit my arm more.

Eating I do a form of European; knife in left, fork in right.

Writing - if you're a leftie and like fountain pens, Pilot Iroshizuku is always recommended as it dries quickly. Also just a good ink.
 
MichaelLC said:
I'm 100% left. Daughter is too but can change up more.

We went to a virtual driving range last weekend and they just gave us both right handed clubs. It felt awful and had to ask for lefties. I can use a bow ok just shooting targets, though tend to hit my arm more.

Eating I do a form of European; knife in left, fork in right.

Writing - if you're a leftie and like fountain pens, Pilot Iroshizuku is always recommended as it dries quickly. Also just a good ink.
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Yeah, lefties are a different bunch. I have never met one that didn't do something right handed, and I was fascinated watching my left handed son grow up and noticing the things he did right handed.
 
I am 100% right handed, but have been playing ping pong a lot with my wife who will never be as good as I, so I now play her left handed. I am getting pretty good and still beat her about 80% of the time, but she is getting better. I told her when she can beat me 2 out of 3 games I am going back to my right hand;-)
 
Major League Baseball Rule 1.04 states "THE PLAYING FIELD: It is desirable that the line from home base through the pitchers plate to second base shall run East Northeast." Which is 67.5 degrees -- basically going east. This is a safety measure. To prevent the late afternoon setting sun during a day game from being in the batter's eyes and blinding him to an incoming high/tight fastball.

So homeplate is located (more or less) in the west. So when a pitcher stands on the rubber facing the batter and looking west, his right hand is to the north. His left hand is to the south.

Which is why lefties are called "southpaws."
 
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MichaelLC said:
Eating I do a form of European; knife in left, fork in right.
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Frayed knot.
Knife always in the right hand. Fork always in the left hand, with the tines facing down. (Exceptions being to scoop up peas).
No swapping utensils from one hand to the other during the meal. Not saying that this is the correct way, but it's how it's done over here.
 
TonyUK said:
I have always thought of myself as a Lefty because I write left-handed. Lefty shooter, some tools, spoon stirrer/user, throw/kick, but I do a lot of other stuff right-handed including picking my nose.

When I was a young 'un at school our teacher use to rap me on the knuckles for writing left-handed. My Mum soon put a stop to that!!!

Writing left-handed is an advantage if you can write Arabic, Persian, Hebrew & others.

I took the test. I have no idea what the results mean. :unsure:
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Funny, pretty much the exact opposite for me. When I was in elementary school, if I ever tried to pick up a pencil with my left hand, I would get a quick smack with point from the nun. Difference was, my parents were fully onboard with that. In fact, later on, when I would get into trouble, 1st it was the nun, 2nd was when I got home and my mom read the note from the nun, 3rd was the "And just wait until your father gets home."

A perfect Trifecta ! ! !
 
Jim C in Denver said:
Major League Baseball Rule 1.04 states "THE PLAYING FIELD: It is desirable that the line from home base through the pitchers plate to second base shall run East Northeast." Which is 67.5 degrees -- basically going east. This is a safety measure. To prevent the late afternoon setting sun during a day game from being in the batter's eyes and blinding him to an incoming high/tight fastball.

So homeplate is located (more or less) in the west. So when a pitcher stands on the rubber facing the batter and looking west, his right hand is to the north. His left hand is to the south.

Which is why lefties are called "southpaws."
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I never understood the southpaw thing until now. Thank you :-D
 
The fountain pen thing is ridiculous! Unless you are using square “calligraphy nibs”. I sold art materials and subsequent fountain pens for years and actually USE them, unless you are using 18k GOLD nibs (which will wear to the users hand) there is no reason to spend extra! That’s nonsense.
I’ve been using a Lamy Safari for five years and never felt a need to modify the nib.
I will certainly admit that dragging a hand through wet ink is king of a pain but, that has NOTHING to do with nib design.
Sorry, I’m left handed as the day is long but, it’s always a sore spot when people claim things are not fair. Life is not fair, adapt, overcome, improvise!
 
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Timothy F. Lewis said:
The fountain pen thing is ridiculous! Unless you are using square “calligraphy nibs”. I sold art materials and subsequent fountain pens for years and actually USE them, unless you are using 18k GOLD nibs (which will wear to the users hand) there is no reason to spend extra! That’s nonsense.
I’ve been using a Lamy Safari for five years and never felt a need to modify the nib.
I will certainly admit that dragging a hand through wet ink is king of a pain but, that has NOTHING to do with nib design.
Sorry, I’m left handed as the day is long but, it’s always a sore spot when people claim things are not fair. Life is not fair, adapt, overcome, improvise!
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I agree, the nib shouldn't make any difference in regards to how fast the ink drys. The nib shape may determine whether it digs into the paper when being pushed across the paper by a left-hander, but that's about it. After a quick bit of Google research, it does appear that the Pilot Iroshizuku ink does dry faster than some other brands of ink though. One could use the ink with any pen though.
 
Keith Jenkins said:
I agree, the nib shouldn't make any difference in regards to how fast the ink drys. The nib shape may determine whether it digs into the paper when being pushed across the paper by a left-hander, but that's about it. After a quick bit of Google research, it does appear that the Pilot Iroshizuku ink does dry faster than some other brands of ink though. One could use the ink with any pen though.
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My left palm might appreciate that! I might try some if I can find it in a bottle.
 
Keith Jenkins said:
I agree, the nib shouldn't make any difference in regards to how fast the ink drys. The nib shape may determine whether it digs into the paper when being pushed across the paper by a left-hander, but that's about it. After a quick bit of Google research, it does appear that the Pilot Iroshizuku ink does dry faster than some other brands of ink though. One could use the ink with any pen though.
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Yes exactly.

Appologies if I gave a different impression, but yes it works with any fountain pen; they have cartridges now too which is nice but of course more expensive vs a bottle. Less colors but all the popular ones.
 
Just looked it up (on the wish list for future purchase! I have probably six bottles of ink which I really need to use before I buy any more!
Work at an art store for a while and you get bitten by the material bug pretty hard! Pens and inks are two full 4’ shelves of art material around here!
 
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