How well can you use your non-dominate hand?

[classical_hero]

I was thinking about this since a friend of mine accidentally cut her right hand and as a result of it she did quite a bit, even to the point of cutting some tendons towards the top part of her hand but below the finger line. It reminded me of the time I cut my middle finger in a work accident and thus had to use my left hand a lot. The only real difficulty I had was trying to write with my left hand, which I am hopeless at,, but other than that i coped rather well. So how well would you do if you had to use your non dominate hand?

When my brother cut his hand, but no other damage, he had to use his left for a short while and for that time he was almost disabled because he had great difficulty using his left hand, but thankfully I didn't have too much problem.

 

[madviking]

I don't really know what my dominant hand is; I possess some degree of ambidexterity. There are certain activities that I do only with my left hand (writing, scissors, forking and knifing) and certain activities that I do only with my right hand (mouse, batting, throwing, kicking). Moreover, I've played both left handed and right handed guitars without any real troubles (prefer right handed ones, though). Hence my proficiency with what I consider to be my non-dominant hand (right hand) is very high.

 

[classical_hero]

Can you use the opposite hand for what you do, like for writing and throwing for example?

 

[azzaman333]

The left side of my body is considerably worse coordinated than my right side.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

I learnt to use mouse with it.

 

[bhsup]

I cannot use my left hand for anything requiring fine motor control. Sure, I can open doors, carry stuff, etc, but if I try to throw a ball, it's a very embarrassing effort that actually involves the entire left side of my body doing some weird motion and the ball going maybe 15 feet. About the only thing that comes to mind that I can use the left hand effectively on is a keyboard.

 

[Masada]

I don't really know what my dominant hand is; I possess some degree of ambidexterity. There are certain activities that I do only with my left hand (writing, scissors, forking and knifing) and certain activities that I do only with my right hand (mouse, batting, throwing, kicking). Moreover, I've played both left handed and right handed guitars without any real troubles (prefer right handed ones, though). Hence my proficiency with what I consider to be my non-dominant hand (right hand) is very high.

This.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I cannot use my left hand for anything requiring fine motor control. Sure, I can open doors, carry stuff, etc, but if I try to throw a ball, it's a very embarrassing effort that actually involves the entire left side of my body doing some weird motion and the ball going maybe 15 feet. About the only thing that comes to mind that I can use the left hand effectively on is a keyboard.

Computer keyboard, or do you also play an instrument?

The reason I ask is because of a question I asked one of my music teachers many years ago. I took lessons in spinet organ for a long time - they're the ones with two separate keyboards for the hands and a pedalboard that's played with the feet. I always had trouble with the left hand, and wondered if left-handed people found the lower keyboard easier than the upper. Since my teachers were also right-handed, they didn't know.

As for writing with my left hand, I can do it most easily on a vertical chalkboard. On paper, it looks like something a 5-year-old might print - on a bad day.

 

[bhsup]

Oh, just computer keyboard and typewriter (yes, I actually have one .)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

A typewriter is always good to have. There are times when I really miss my old Smith-Corona. It typed a heckuva lot of essays, term papers, and even Star Trek and SCA newsletters.

I do have some difficulty with my left hand on keyboards, but I suspect that's more to do with the fibromyalgia. I have nerve damage in my hands and fingers, and sometimes the left side of my left hand goes completely numb and I have absolutely no strength in it.

 

[Tee Kay]

Not well

 

[Arakhor]

I'm left-handed, but not very strongly so. I instinctively reach for stuff with my left hand (except the kettle, which I do with my right), but I was taught to use a mouse with my right hand. Given my poor handwriting anyway, my right-handed script is abominable.

 

[Grisu]

I'd be totally lost without my right hand. Writing with left is unreadable (even more so than with my right hand).

I do use it for typing, and in floorball I shoot with left...that's about it

 

[Synobun]

In sports, I generally switch between dominance. It seems to depend on my mood, for some reason.

In everything else, I'm dominantly left-handed and absolutely useless with my right hand. I attribute this to not being taught muscle memory or control as a child, so I am naturally a little "stunted" in that department. Non-dominant hand just makes it that much worse.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

My right hand is the more proficient one with the mouse (due to growing with right-handed brothers and only one PC). I also hold fork and knife like a right-handed person. Beyond that lefty all the way. Writing, throwing a ball, playing tennis... all impossible with the right hand.

 

[Leoreth]

I'm ambidextrous when it comes to using the computer. At everything else my left hand is just terrible.

 

[Arakhor]

I also hold fork and knife like a right-handed person.

Oh well, that too, yes. Anyone who eats left-handed is just going to stick out in society.

 

[warpus]

I can answer this question wrt to my feet. I'm right footed and used to absolutely suck at using my left foot for kicking a ball, but during practice I would just.. try using it.. Over and over and over.. Eventually you become decent at it and can use it for simple passes or shots, if the situation calls for it. I bet that if I did the same thing with my left hand and a pen, I'd get decent at it after a couple months of mediocre occasional practice.

 

[LegionSteve]

How well can you use your non-dominate hand?

Depends how good the picture you post in the babe thread is.

 

[Kennigit]

The left side of my body is considerably worse coordinated than my right side.

This. it's next to useless

but I guess I'm pretty good typing with my left hand, since right hand is my mouse hand. Playing games for quite few years makes my left hand considerably better at typing than my right (Since the left is always positioned on the keyboard if typing)

Everything else, terrible--you can essentilly chop it off. I'll throw in my left eye too, since my left eye is ~2-3 times worse than my right eye.