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  • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it’s a plus.

    After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they’re part of a class doing pencil and paper time.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    30 days ago

    Training people in surgical techniques is way easier in lefties because most have been imitating right handed people so have some degree of ambidexterity. When you tell a right handed person to do precision movements with their left hand it fucks them up for a while.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    30 days ago

    When fencing, left-handed people have the significant advantage of being able to dramatically switch their rapier from their right hand to their left hand, mid-combat, and announce that they are not really right-handed.

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      29 days ago

      I did that in badminton. I’m the beginning I swapped hands when they weren’t looking. Once they caught on, of randomly swap whenever.

    • Case@lemmynsfw.com
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      27 days ago

      Realistically, I found left handed opponents to be more difficult to compete against.

      It took me longer to learn their body movements that would indicate a strike, and where they are aiming. It wast just less intuitive.

      Also, fencing a little person was a somewhat unique experience. Totally threw me off my game.

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    30 days ago

    in fencing left handed people have a slight advantage, since left handed people are used to fighting right handed people but righties aren’t used to fencing lefties. other than that it’s probably worse since it looks like writing left handed is more annoying

  • cynar@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    From memory, we are statistically more likely to be geniuses. Unfortunately we are also equally as more likely to be clinically insane.

  • falk1856@midwest.social
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    30 days ago

    I think that I’m one the the majority of left handed people who aren’t totally left handed. I write and throw with my left hand. I use scissors and a computer mouse with my right. It helped with taking notes from a computer in college, I guess. I shoot pool equally well with either hand but I think that’s the case with most people.

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    30 days ago

    We save money on potato peelers because the right handed people in the family use the other side of the blade and so it lasts twice as wrong.

    Downside is right harders want to trade peelers with us not realizing that there are right handers in the family and so ours are dull on both sides.

    • exasperation@lemm.ee
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      30 days ago

      It’s true of all combat sports, and, to some degree, any other sport in which you go face to face with your opponent.

      And although it might be true that at the very very top levels people both learn to be more ambidextrous (so that there’s less of a mismatch between sides whether right or left handed) and are more experienced/skilled at dealing with left handed opponents, the early years of learning the sport will weed out fewer left handed people so that the top levels have more left handed people.

      • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        I once read that the more competitive a society is, the now left-handed people it will have. I never did more research to verify, but makes some kinda sense