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[zmix]

This is a simplified poll: What hand do you use when signing your name?

I am interested to see what the demographic is here.

Also, please spare us the "..but I am ambedextrous!" rant. We know you are, everyone is, (we all type with both hands, right?).

Thanks.

EDIT: According to this site:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#Statistics_of_left- handedness
approximately 10% of the population is left-handed.
The poll seems to be running steadily at three times this level...

[Fibes]

I was a lefty then switched.

Played hockey both ways which was great as a center.

Play guitar right handed.

My fly reel winds on the right side which is either "the proper way" or left handed depending on how you look at it.

[t(h)ik]

Not a south paw...

no no no...

sinistre...

Sign of Satan...

Nope, thank god, I am going to heaven....

Lemme nough

[PookyNMR]

When I was in kindergarten through grade 2, I wrote with my left hand.  My grade 2 teacher made me swtich to my right hand as my writing wtih my left was messy.  Didn't improve things.  I can still write with both hands.  I play hockey left.  

[Barry Hufker]

Tik,

It's true the left hand is the side of judgment.  And in some cultures, people wipe themselves with their left hands and eat from the community food bowl with their right.

I would expect lefthanders here to be 3% of the population as they are in the general population.

Ambidexterous: left handers are truly ambidexterous.  And I don't mean they mix with both hands, etc.  It is extremely unusual to find a truly left handed person -- a person who does everything left handed.  Most left handers switch between left and right.

I eat right handed but write left.  I bat right handed and am right footed.  But I throw left handed.  My right hand is the hand of precision (so I cut tape right handed) but my left hand is the one with dexterity so when I play guitar, I have the pick in my right hand but finger the strings with my left.

I think such things are true of most left handers.  And we are proud to be left handed no matter how we've been viewed throughout history.

Barry

[Roadster]

Left.

Man, it's a relief to get that out in the open.

[zetterstroem]

write with my left.....

open doors with my right

run mouse with both.....

j*** off with both too  

[Barry Hufker]

OK, that last statement could have been "left" out.

Barry

[Daniel Farris]

zmix wrote on Tue, 20 December 2005 14:10

I am interested to see what the demographic is here.

So far 27% left handed. What is the national (or global, if that number is available and meaningful) percentage?

Right handed. Voted that way.

DF

[Tidewater]

LMAO Fibes. I din't know.

I was also a lefty, beaten into rightdom by nuns with nasty habits. I held a pencil in a fist for around 2 years. My handwriting never was worth a crap.

I started playing guitar lefty, then switched to right after a couple years.

... and voted right handed.

M

[hargerst]

Left handed, strictly.

[imagineaudio]

Quote:

I would expect lefthanders here to be 3% of the population as they are in the general population.

see, i would think lefthanders here to be greater than the general population.  I've always associated lefthandedness and creative personality.

me....i write left handed, throw left, play guitars/drums right handed, throw darts right handed, shoot basketball left, play hockey/golf/putt-putt right..jerk it right....hmmm

[PRobb]

Baseball parks are traditionally built with home plate in the west corner so batters don't have to try to pick up pitches out of the setting sun. So lefties pitch with their "south paw". Just thought I'd throw that in, so to speak.

I'm a righty all the way.

[Barry Hufker]

Some day all right handers will serve their left handed overlords!

Oh -- and by the way -- that's really interesting information about the ball park.

Now back to world domination.

Barry

[wavdoctor]

Broke my left arm playing ball as a kid and learned to do everything right handed..except the accordian..I played left handed and upside down??...)(*&^%   ssssshhhhhhh. not a word.
It was always funny to see my left handed brother with a right handed baseball glove on his left hand..

HB