Primary Writing Hand

[MeghanAndrews]

Ok, so my blog posting made me curious about which handedness most people are here. I haven't seen this poll posted, just curious, which is it for you?

[soldierjane]

I'm a right-hander, I hold my amazon warrior shield on the left ;P

[Pica Pica]

i use my right for writing but my left hand for a lot of other things.
of course both hands are pretty equal in the typing stakes. Well, the left wins it a bit, but that is cos of the letters e s a d t and g.

[Just Mandy]

I write right handed but do everything else with the left. I also have messy handwriting.

Amanda

P.S. I sit with a leg tucked under me a lot and I don't have short legs

[Shana A]

I'm a lefty, however I learned to play stringed instruments right handed. My hand writing is not the most readable in the world 

Z

[Sheila]

I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

[Ms Jessica]

I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

I had a similar experience, except I would write with both hands equally.  My teacher eventually got irritated enough that she made me choose.  I picked my left.  Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities.  Activities like bowling are fun because I can't figure out which hand I'm supposed to use.  I suck equally with either. 

[Osiris]

When I was younger I use to write with both hands, left hand for left side of the page and right for the other. When I got into school they told me that I had to use one so I picked my right.

[Steph]

I'm right handed, but left footed

Steph

[tinkerbell]

I'm right-handed as well.  Bummer! 

tink

[Lori]

I'm right-handed as well.  Bummer! 

tink

Me2

[Lisbeth]

I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

I had a teacher try to do the same, but my parents raised holy hell and told her to leave me alone.

Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I'm a lefty, however I learned to play stringed instruments right handed. My hand writing is not the most readable in the world 

Z

Guitar, tennis, golf, bowling.  All of those I do right-handed.

[MeghanAndrews]

I'm left-handed, I forgot to say that, lol. I always tell people that's why my handwriting is so bad

[Shana A]

Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >

Z

[lady amarant]

I am left handed, and like a few others, primary school tried to force me to use my right hand - until my mom got on their cases.

I primarily use my left hand for most stuff, even using scissors and the like. I can use the right though, and will switch between hands if it makes the angle easier or to not have to reach across my body. I'm also trying to teach myself to write with my left right hand ... but that's a bit of a challenge.

~Simone.

[Ms Jessica]

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

LOL! 

It's true.  I should mention that my handwriting is usually pretty nice.  By making it a little loopy, it looks like a girl's writing (even to me).  My only giveaway is that it's usually really small. 

[Lisbeth]

Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >

Z

You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

[Ms Jessica]

Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >

Z

You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

You're both right.  Only a feat of such genius could be pulled off by the same people who can't make a hammer for less than $500. 

[Alyssa M.]

You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

?!!!!!! 

That's not like any pair of lefty scissors I've ever seen. All the lefty scissors I saw in grade school were the mirror image of the righty scissors, that being the very definition of left-handed scissors. They worek great in a left hand and terrible in a right hand.

Any pair of right-handed scissors with the handles molded to fit in a left hand was designed by a moron.

[Nikki]

Lefty for pretty much everything... including right handed scissors in my left hand.