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Any differences in typing between RH and LH people?
You betcha!bob012345 said:Any differences in typing between RH and LH people?
Do you just mean the use of the Space Bar and Shift Key? Or do you have something else in mind?DaveC426913 said:You betcha!
There's lots of little things. Since I've always been left-handed, it's actually difficult to say what's harder for me than for you. (Took me into my adulthood before I learned that scissors don't raise welts on the hands of right-handers.)berkeman said:Do you just mean the use of the Space Bar and Shift Key? Or do you have something else in mind?
After all, we all have to use our left hand for Carriage Return.
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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carriage_return
There is a config setting on you PC to swap the mouse buttons...DaveC426913 said:The mouse buttons are the wrong way.
Inspect carefully, it turns out there are two versions of left handed scissors.DaveC426913 said:(Took me into my adulthood before I learned that scissors don't raise welts on the hands of right-handers.)
It's worse than that. It often won't cut because the angle is wrong. It just twists the paper.Tom.G said:the handles for a more comfortable fit without changing the blade overlap. This positions the top blade to block your view of the cut line
I am right handed. I play guitar right handed but I play drums left handed. Trying to do either vice versa results in a sonic mess or personal body damage.BillTre said:Here are some possible alternatives:
- person with no hands from birth
- person with no hands, but right or left handed until hands gone
- right handed, not right hand
- left handed, no left hand
there as also some people who are right handed for some things and left handed for others (throws right, bats left)
Same as me but I am left handed.Jodo said:I am right handed. I play guitar right handed but I play drums left handed. Trying to do either vice versa results in a sonic mess or personal body damage.
I feel this is still reinforcing archaic binary stereotypes.You clearly have a hand-centric bias.BillTre said:Here are some possible alternatives:
- person with no hands from birth
- person with no hands, but right or left handed until hands gone
- right handed, not right hand
- left handed, no left hand
there as also some people who are right handed for some things and left handed for others (throws right, bats left)
DaveC426913 said:And why limit everyone to just two?
TILBillTre said:number of squid arms = number of octopus + 2
I don't like octopi. Not their fault, but when I'm skimming along the bottom free diving and all of a sudden a rock turns into an octopus with tentacles darting out at me and ink in the water, that is very startling for somebody not carrying any extra air!BillTre said:number of squid arms = number of octopus + 2
berkeman said:And just to pull this OT discussion back to OP relevance, has anybody ever done a study on handedness of octopi? That would be fascinating, IMO... Still 80/20 do you think?
https://www.nature.com/articles/news040614-1
Interesting, thanks!BillTre said:
Unlike in humans, this handedness is split more or less 50-50, rather than being biased towards right-handers. But it does seem to show why the many-limbed creatures go to the trouble of choosing a favourite.
I would rather have it on the left side of the keyboard, even if I am right handed.Godot_ said:...using the NumPad should be easier for right-handed people. But spacebar? Right or left thumb - even I as a pretty much right handed person do it both ways. Where's the difficulty / difference?
If I use right handed scissors in my left had, they do not cut.Tom.G said:Inspect carefully, it turns out there are two versions of left handed scissors.
Right handed scissors are assembled with the blade that is on top of the work positioned to the right during use. That allows you do see exactly where you are cutting.
Some left handed scissors just change the handles for a more comfortable fit without changing the blade overlap. This positions the top blade to block your view of the cut line.
I hear that is rather annoying for lefties.
I don't get these left/tight handed references to sports or instruments.Jodo said:I am right handed. I play guitar right handed but I play drums left handed. Trying to do either vice versa results in a sonic mess or personal body damage.
No it is not convention. Have you never played squash, tennis or badminton?256bits said:I don't get these left/tight handed references to sports or instruments.
Is the 'better' hand to be the upper or lower grip on a bat, or rather the left or right side of the pitcher when the batter steps up to the plate, or on which 'side' of the rink the hockey player is on when looking from his own goal.
Should the 'better' hand be strumming or playing the chords.
These are would just consider conventions that have developed and continued on.
One handed actions - definitely a handedness to them.pinball1970 said:No it is not convention. Have you never played squash, tennis or badminton?
Never held a guitar?
One way feels 'wrong' and the other way feels natural.
As wrong and as natural as writing with your right or left.
Ok I get you now. Yes that is convention. How did the nomenclature arise?256bits said:One handed actions - definitely a handedness to them.
Batting - convention as both hands are used - where does it say the left or right hand should be above the other on the bat? In fact, a left handed batter has his right eye closer to the pitch, so he should really be a right eye handed batter.
I bat right handed, but play hockey left handed, and both feel natural, but where is the logic in naming one stance over the other.
An example. I went to drum clinic for schools when I was about 14. I was the only leftie for a snare session of about 10 or so kids and I was outed.256bits said:One handed actions - definitely a handedness to them.
Batting - convention as both hands are used - where does it say the left or right hand should be above the other on the bat? In fact, a left handed batter has his right eye closer to the pitch, so he should really be a right eye handed batter.
I bat right handed, but play hockey left handed, and both feel natural, but where is the logic in naming one stance over the other.