How well can you use your non-dominate hand?

[azzaman333]

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.

My left foot shots are like my right foot shots, wildly unpredictable. The only difference is I have no power on my left.

 

[Zelig]

I'm ambidextrous.

 

[Commodore]

In recent years I have become a lot better at using my non-dominant hand. Right now, the only thing I cannot do proficiently with my non-dominant hand is writing.

 

[The_J]

The only things I really do with my right hand are eating soup, cutting with scissors, shaving and *notSuitableForThisForum*.
...mmhh...I guess if I think longer about it, then the list will also get longer.
But yeah, for most things I'm not really good with my right hand.
Reminds me of the one time I cut my left thumb...still did everything possible with my left hand, because it's just not possible (how good that my writing is not decipherable, no matter which hand I use).

 

[madviking]

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

mediocrely

 

[Quintillus]

I'd be noticeably awkward in some things. For example, I can eat with a fork with my non-dominant hand, but far less fluidly than with my dominant hand. And while I can write well enough to be able to read it with my non-dominant hand, doing so is slow, and I tend to write larger. It also takes thought, whereas writing with my dominant hand really doesn't.

On the other hand, I can type fine with my non-dominant hand, and can use a mouse with my non-dominant hand pretty well, too. I'm also not terrible at throwing things with my non-dominant hand - it's less reliable and powerful than with my dominant hand, but I've been known to throw baseballs fairly accurately with my non-dominant hand, and am not always terrible when I bowl with my non-dominant hand. And if I had to drive with only one hand, my non-dominant hand would be just as good as my dominant one. So while it'd certainly be inconvenient to have to use my non-dominant hand, I wouldn't be helpless.

 

[Kyriakos]

Calling it the "non-dominant" hand is too PC i think. Why not just call it the Gay hand?

 

[Synobun]

Calling it the "non-dominant" hand is too PC i think. Why not just call it the Gay hand?

... What?

 

[AlpsStranger]

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

Damnit, you scooped me

 

[sophie]

I cannot use my right hand for much of anything.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

What's with the consistently poor spelling in your OP titles CH?

 

[Arakhor]

Spelling isn't one of his dominate traits?

 

[Saxony]

I can do pretty much everything with my right hand just as well as with my left exept writing and holding spoons and forks.

 

[Mise]

I can masturbate with either hand if that's what you were asking about.

Sent from a phone, apols for any mistakes.

 

[Borachio]

Can you?

Spoiler :

That's a neat trick if you can pull it off.

Nononono. Don't look!

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Do you have a preferred turnip sowing hand Borachio? I imagine you being a whizz with either.

 

[Borachio]

I haven't actually grown any root vegetables this year. Never mind turnips.

 

[classical_hero]

What's with the consistently poor spelling in your OP titles CH?

They don't get underlined when I spell them wrong, so thus I can't correct them. that is such a handy feature. When I put it in it didn't quite look right, but I didn't bother to check if it was right.

 

[Borachio]

Hey, you're right! Non-dominate doesn't get underlined. Probably because it's a grammatical rather than a spelling error.

Dominate is, as you know, a verb. While dominant would be the adjective. (Domination, the noun). But all that's irrelevant, I guess. And a lot of people don't know what a verb is anyway.

Still, I guess it all depends on how familiar you are with English.

 

[Kyriakos]

Verb is that kind of food those meat-haters eat, right? :/