Left.
Has anyone who is right handed tried to use their mouse with their left hand ? ....and of course vice versa. Holy mackeral that's hard. It just doesn't seem like it should be that difficult
I used to try stuff like that in an effort to become ambidextrous.
I had the same experience you did and gave up :(
"A man's got to know his limitations".
-Dirty Harry
Dirty was a clever boy.
I can't even watch TV left handed. It's pathetic.
hee hee... I just tried what you pointed out and OMG, it's tough. My right hand is just soo used to gripping that mouse and moved around to left hand felt too difficult. It was awkward.
There was this guy I knew that wanted to change his life routine because he was tired of all the mundane routine stuff so he started to brush his teeth with his left hand. :))
I can do that.....if I just hold my toothbrush and move my head back and forth. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/muede/n020.gif" border=0]
I can do both although my left is starting to slip on me.
How did I do this?
simple answer basketball.
For hours and hours and hours every weekend I'd dribble, shoot, grip the ball, everything with my left hand.
To the point that I started using my left hand to shoot on the left side of the basket and vice a versa.
I can bat in baseball lefthanded, not very strong though.
it is a bit easier if you change your mouse buttons to reflect the 'change'.
while you are at it, try brushing your teeth with the other hand.
edit: ok, someone already mentioned this. so nm.
move to the UK and get a manual that would be challenging.
No thanks!
I'd rather try driving with my feet and the steering wheel covered in vasoline :(
Mr LM does that all the time. Left-handed person living in a right-handed world. Golfs, scissors and mouses like a right handed person. Switch-hitter in baseball.
Right handed for everything. Horrible when you have to work for a dentist who's left handed.
Whenever I begin to worry about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome due to pain in my right arm/wrist, I switch to mousing with my left. I've been mousing with the left hand for the last few months, in fact, and at this point I can't even remember having had any difficulty in adapting. Otherwise, though, I find it extremely awkward to attempt to change the performance of routine actions from one side of the body to the other:
I always hold the phone in my left hand against my left ear
place my right leg into my pants first
brush my teeth with my right hand
If you're feeling the need to swith hands because of pain, just keep at it: you will very soon have trouble even remembering that it was difficult at first.
I always hold the phone in my left hand against my left ear
That's funny to hear you say that Invert....I always say...I can't talk on the phone left handed and hubby always laughs. But the fact of the matter is, that I can't process what I'm hearing when I hold the phone with my left hand.
And when I said I can't even watch TV left handed ??? in way, I'm not kidding. If I prop my head (in that position) on my left hand.....again....I can't process what I'm watching.
That was kind of my intent behind this thread, but wasn't sure how to (or if I wanted to...lol) espress this 'oddity'.
So, P.C., you always hold the phone in your right hand up to your right ear (and you're right-handed)? Although I'm right-handed, I have a similar experience of not being able to process what I'm hearing well when I hold the phone to my right ear. Perhaps one can be right-handed and left-eared? (One might expect the same side to be dominant in both cases, but clearly that isn't always the case.)
How about the rest of you? Do you hold the phone up to the ear on your dominant side, or on the opposite one?
P.C. wrote:
... But the fact of the matter is, that I can't process what I'm hearing when I hold the phone with my left hand.
Ha! I thought it's me only.....but I have the same problem. I can hear but I process what I hear a lot slower than if the phone is on my right ear.
When I was a kid I broke my right hand and was in a cast.....I learned to write with my left hand but my lettering was slanted left
[table bgcolor="#ccffff" border="1"][tbody][tr][td colspan="3"]% of Men and Women who Use the RIGHT SIDE[/td][/tr] [tr][td](http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/clear.gif)[/td][td]Men[/td][td]Women[/td][/tr][tr] [/tr][tr][td]Hand[/td][td]86[/td][td]90[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Foot[/td][td]77[/td][td]86[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Ear[/td][td]55[/td][td]65[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Eye[/td][td]73[/td][td]69[/td][/tr][/tbody][/table]
[h2]Speak to my right ear, sing to my left[/h2] [div class="author"]Agençe France-Presse[/div]
[div class="date"]Monday, 13 September 2004
[/div] [table class="photo" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1%"] [tbody][tr valign="top"] [td align="left"][img]http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/health/earphone130904.jpg" alt="Listening" title="Listening" border="0"][/td] [/tr] [tr valign="top"] [td align="left"] [div class="caption"]Which ear do you use? (Image: iStockphoto)[/div] [/td] [/tr] [/tbody][/table] [div class="story"] Our left and right ears process sound differently, according to new research.
When scientists studied babies' hearing they found the left ear was more attuned to music and the right better at picking up speech-like sounds.
Lead researcher Dr Yvonne Sininger of the [a href="http://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank"]University of California[/a] at Los Angeles and team published their study in the latest issue of the journal [a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/" target="_blank"]Science[/a].
It has long been known that the right and left halves of the brain process sound differently, but those differences were thought to stem from cellular properties unique to each brain hemisphere.
The new research suggested the differences start at the ear.
"We always assumed that our left and right ears worked exactly the same way," said Sininger.
"As a result, we tended to think it didn't matter which ear was impaired in a person. Now we see that it may have profound implications for the individual's speech and language development."
The researchers said the discovery will help doctors enhance speech and language development in hearing-impaired newborns and the rehabilitation of people with hearing loss.
Sininger and her colleagues studied hearing in more than 3000 newborns, specifically tiny amplifiers located in the outer hair cells of the inner ear.
These cells contract and expand to amplify sound vibrations, convert the vibrations to neural cells and send them to the brain.
The scientists inserted tiny probes into the babies' ears that emitted two different types of sounds and measured the amplified vibrations.
They found that speech-like clicks triggered greater amplification in the right ear, while music-like sustained tones were more greatly amplified by the left ear.
"We were intrigued to discover that the clicks triggered more amplification in the baby's right ear, while the tones induced more amplification in the baby's left ear," Sininger said.
"This parallels how the brain processes speech and music, except the sides are reversed due to the brain's cross connections.
"Our findings demonstrate that auditory processing starts in the ear before it is ever seen in the brain," said co-author Associate Professor Barbara Cone-Wesson of the [a href="http://www.arizona.edu/" target="_blank"]University of Arizona[/a]. "Even at birth, the ear is structured to distinguish between different types of sound and to send it to the right place in the brain." [/div]
Right handed for almost everything, although I can play table tennis with my left hand as easily as with my right, I also unwcrew the caps off jars with my left hand - my niece does the same.
Interesting stuff Invert. I had always wondered if it was some version of dyslexia.
I wear my watch on the left hand. ;)
I can't tell time left handed. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a035.gif" border=0]
I don't wear a watch any more. I don't know. Feels really good after awhile. Like you're not attached to time and have to rush anywhere.
I don't either Lise. Well I do, but none of them work. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/c025.gif" border=0]
I'm right-handed but I wear my watch on my left wrist. It just doesn't feel comfortable otherwise. I did try to use the mouse with my left hand when my right wrist was sore, but it was very slow and awkward. However, I can use either right or left to hold a fork.
KITTEN !!!!!!
So you're calorically ambidextrous ?
Only when I'm starving. Or if I happen to be in polite company that expects me to use my left hand for the fork. Mind you, they shouldn't trust me too far with a knife in my right hand!
kitten wrote:
I'm right-handed but I wear my watch on my left wrist. It just doesn't feel comfortable otherwise.
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Me too!
And I think I use my left ear for the phone because I'm used to holding it on my left shoulder, leaving my right arm free to pour coffee or whatever.
Isn't it 'customary' (not really the word I'm looking for) to wear your watch on your left arm if you're right handed?
*I never mastered that shoulder/ear crunch that people do with the phone. Even my kids could do it from the time they were 5. I STILL can't do it. So if I'm trying to talk to someone while I'm making dinner, I have to say...."Can I call you back ?.....I just have to stir the sauce" [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/h040.gif" border=0]
I was always told that you wear your watch on the opposite hand.
I was a rebel. I wore it around my neck.
P.C. wrote:
*I never mastered that shoulder/ear crunch that people do with the phone.
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I can only do it on one side! And I need to, because I have a constant need to fidget. If someone is yakking on and on, I'm folding laundry or cleaning the bathroom!
what? how do you do that?
put the cordless phone on my left shoulder/left ear, and walk around doing chores while talking on the phone.
It helps to have broad shoulders ;))))
It seems that everyone can do it.
That did it......I'm taking lessons.
haaah!
probably easier to buy a cordless headset thing from Staples!
Good idea Lil Me....perhaps I could pick up some pocket protectors too. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c028.gif" border=0]
lol
I thought everyone on DS already had pocket protectors!
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a143.gif" border=0].