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I’ve usually considered myself right handed but several of my close family are lefties. I was chatting to my husband about handedness and I realise I’m not as much of a righty as I thought.

When I was about 12 I hurt my right hand and wrote with my left for a week or two. When I was teaching if my hand got tired when writing on the blackboard I’d switch to the other one. I’ve also taught calligraphy to adults and if they moaned that they couldn’t do it with their left hands then I’d switch hands to show them how. It’s slower with my left but possible and neat. LOL That used to startle them! I also open jars with my left hand and find myself using either for various tasks. I was browsing last night and found an interesting site with a test on it. http://www.undenial(.)com/left/ remove brackets. The link to the site which provided the questions led to interesting things. I don’t think I can call myself ambidextrous as I’m not equally good with each hand but I think I must be mixed handed. I found I am 44% left and 56% right handed. I thought some of you might find this interesting too. Perhaps you aren’t completely what you thought. Sue

Our daughter is a leftie, so is my dad and Father in law was, all very intelligent, logical thinkers, I can use both for most things .i knit left handed so have to change to knit and purl lol

In my family as many people were left as right handed so I grew up never thinking anything odd or different about it. I know that my leftie mother said that when she was a girl her father (a leftie) taught himself knitting so he could show her, because my grandmother couldn't manage to teach her. My sister is a leftie so it has always seemed normal for people to be either handed to me. I have tried to make sure that my Guides had left handed scissors etc so no-one felt left out. Sue

Left handed for writing,opening jars,everything else auto right handed,,,

my sil is left handed and a couple of nephews are as well i could never understand why people say that left handed people use the wrong hand . what makes one hand moreright than the other ?

I'm both....came in very useful when I was hairdressing

I'll look Sue, Two of my 5 kids are left handed and 2 nephews too, Caz xxxx

I use both hands. Princpally right handed but can write with left hand, came in useful when I had a stroke last year until I got the use of right hand back. Have always been considered strange because I thread a needle, deal cards and open jars with left hand. Using both hands comes in handy when cleaning windows and painting. Ex husband was left handed but used all tools with his right. All our children are right handed. Especially my son who as a baby would only use his right hand to take something offered to him. Linda

I'm left handed but I can only knit right handed! It took my right handed Nan ages to try to teach me to knit. In the end I just copied her and did it right handed. I taught myself to crochet left handed by having the instruction book on my lap and sitting in front of a mirror! I write across the page and not, as some lefties do, with my hand over the top of the writing - does that make sense? I also hold my fork in my left hand and my knife in my right and can cut my food with it like that, although if using a knife for spreading or carving I use it in my left hand. My Dad was left handed, but his hand was tied behind his back at school to make him write with his right hand. Consequently he wrote right handed, but did everything else left handed and left footed. My brother writes right handed, but holds a bat or a racquet and throws and kicks a ball left handed. A real mixture! My husband is right handed so when my children were young, I always held a pencil or crayon in front of them so they could choose which hand to use. All 4 are right handed, as are all my 4 eldest grandchildren, don't know about the 3 week old yet! My brother's daughters are both right handed too, as is his wife. I always thought it strange that Dad and I were the only lefties in our family. As far as I know neither sets of grandparents or great grandparents were left handed either. Dad always used to say we were special :o) As there were no other lefties in my family, I always used right handed scissors and thought everyone else struggled using them too. It wasn't until I was about 30 and was on the school PTA that I discovered left handed scissors. A fellow PTA member was using dressmaking scissors at a craft making evening and after borrowing them, my life was transformed - well my cutting out was anyway! LOL It is so much easier nowadays when left handed and ambidextrous tools are freely available. ''There was nothing like that in my day!'' LOLOL Sue xx off to check out that site now

I suppose I am Mixed Handed. I have always written with my left hand,although I used to get the strap in junior school,and told I would never get a job in the Post Office,until my mum went to see the headmaster,and said 'if everyone can write with their right hand as well as she can write with her left,they won't go far wrong' My mum had an awful job teaching me to knit right handed,but that is the only way I have ever knitted. I eat with a knife and fork R.handed,but a spoon L handed. I play golf R.handed,but tennis L handed. I have problems driving a L hand drive car and changing gear with my R hand. I don't like the Latin translation 'sinister' for left,as I think all left handed people are very intelligent!!!!!! Brenda x x

I'm 66.6% right handed and 33.3% left handed. Was surprised at that because I'm right handed, but have been told that I do quite a lot of things left handed. Our family is a proper mixture though. My daughter is right-handed, but eats left-handed and my mum in law is left-handed, but eats right-handed! The rest of us are right-handed. Just as a matter of interest, I work in a kitchen and most of the cooks that I've have worked with have been left-handed. Are cooks generally left-handed??

I'm a mixed hander now - you had to be if you were left handed, living in a right handed world.! I write left, eat main course right, but starter and pudding left Always drink coffee and smoke with left hand , but can drink alcohol with either!! Knit right, but sew left.Painting - start left and carry on right. Find unscrewing easier than screwing, cut right with scissors, iron with left Played hockey and cricket right, but tennis and rounders left. Bowl and throw with left. Other thigs predominently left, except computer mouse which is right. Good cooks might be lefties, but not all lefties are good cooks - I'm not, anyway LOL Jay

I use my right hand for writing but eat left handed as do two of my three children. Kate :) Oh and I wear my watch on my right wrist, which several friends seem to consider odd - not sure if that is relevant or not.

I write with my left hand, I eat right handed except when I having soup or a dessert then it's left handed I cut bread etc left handed and I use scissors left handed When i'm ironing I alternate hands. I knit right handed but I sew left handed Did the test and the result was 66% Right handed My dad was naturally left handed and my mum used her left hand because her right arm was parilysed None of my children or grandchildren are left handed but my youngest daughter uses a knife and fork left handed Bren

So the story goes my grandad was left handed by in though days it was ment to be a sign of the devil or something so he was forced to write right handed.Hence the odd times he wrote anything it looked as if a spidder had be splatted one the page.

Fascinating, I came out 55.56% left and 44.44% righthanded, yet I thought I was righthanded through and through.

So did I, but I'm 99% left-handed! The only thing I do right-handed is to hold my knife and fork the 'right' way round.

That is odd, I am definitely right handed and would really struggle to write with my left but my test came out 83% left handed and only 17% right. Liz

Some banks offer left handed cheque books ( the cheques are on the left hand page) which makes writing them much easier. Right handed husband cannot cope with it at all!