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A boxing coach once told me it’s harder to fight lefties because they go against what you’ve trained for.
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.
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.
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Due to it being a right handed world, most lefties are much better at using their non dominant hand for things. I can operate power tools, golf putt, easily drive a stick shift in any country, and do all sorts of things with my dominant or non dominant hand. Sometimes if I’m doing something that’s making my hand or arm tired, I’ll just do it with the other. Sure, it’s not as good as using my left hand, but it still gets the job done.
Bonus points when playing pickleball or table tennis or tennis or whatever and I was hands to reach and hit an otherwise out of reach ball in just the nick of time.
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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.
I can’t think of any time I’ve felt lile being left-handed is an advantage.
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.
I’m similar. It’s called being cross-handed.
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.
Inconceivable!
No-one hates fencing a lefty quite like another lefty.
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.
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.
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
I don’t know, but I assume it comes with some benefits. If not, why make the pact with the devil in the first place?
Left handed people are superior beings
We are simply better than the rights
but it takes three lefties to get it right.
Only left-handed people are in their right mind
God this is so good
You get to call yourself widdershins.
See life from the side of not being the “norm”.
Meanwhile those of us ambidextrous…
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.
