Is it strange to use your off-hand more often than your dominant hand? (lemmy.world)

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I'm right-handed but I mostly use my left for things like opening doors, picking up stuff, using phone, holding food... and my right hand for things that requires fined dexterity like writing, using utensils, using keys... My friends see me using my left-hand most of the time and kept asking me why I barely use my right hand. Some people who met for the first time actually thought that I'm left-handed for some reason.

Is it really that weird to not use your dominant hand as much? I'm sure I'm not born left-handed and trained to be right-handed when I was small, I've been right-handed for as long as I can remember.

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[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's called Cross-dominance and is something I have as well. Certain tasks feel more "right" to perform with one hand over the other.

[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And it can be acquired through practice. I’m a lefty but I’m way more comfortable using a mouse with my right hand from years of practice. I worked in IT so it wasn’t feasible to always move the mouse to the other side when working on other people’s computers or on server KVMs.

Edit: this also applies to all handed devices like scissors, beveled knives, etc.

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm like 90+% right hander, but I have to use my left to drive. Probably comes from having a manual transmission car for years.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Never actually thought about that, but your totally right… I too drive with my left… Allthough I’m not sure if that’s because of the transmission cars I drove until I got my Tesla 3 years back or just because I can rest my arm on the door while holding the wheel.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I'm the same way, but it started as a kid when riding my bike I couldn't go one-handed on the handlebars with my right but could with my left. It's like the left is steadier but less dexterous.

[-] Swim@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I definitely have cross dominance

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Since most pitchers are right-handed, left-handed batters enjoy a second advantage over their right-handed counterparts.

Fun sports fact: Barry Bonds was a left-handed hitter who used steroids, whereas Henry Aaron was a right-handed hitter who didn't. Despite both of those advantages, and getting more expansion teams to face, and playing 162-game seasons his whole career, and access to multi-angle slow-motion video replays, and much more modern training/coaching/sports-psychology/conditioning/nutrition, Bonds still only "beat" Aaron's home run record by a whopping seven homers. It's oddly pathetic.

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