Worst: Using scissors is painful. Best: We get to use a (right-handed) mouse and a pen at the same time.

I'm a lefty, and my god, if you're into archery, it will be torture for you to find the proper equipment for a lefty.

I had a traumatic childhood because I was lefty. Got beatings soo hard as a kid from my parents and teacher just for using my left hand. Shits annoying

I’m left-handed, and I recently found out something quite interesting. So it was a science experiment in school testing reaction times, where someone would drop a ruler and would see how fast you caught it. It was tested on both your dominant and non-dominant hand. The results came out with right-handed people having faster right hands than left hands, but left-handed people having a much smaller margin between their hands. The teacher explained that this is because of how left-handed people have learnt how to fit in within society, and have had to conform, so their hands are actually more equally functional. So yeah, strength in number of hands I guess 😅

Scissors! They're almost always molded for righties and are uncomfortable to use left-handed. The blades are also naturally pushed apart when used left-handed, making it much harder to cut unless you intentionally apply pressure like a right hand naturally would.

I'm left handed, as are three of my aunts and uncles. My dad was one of the right-handed siblings, and he did try to change me as a baby. My mom was going to intervene but she saw I was dealing with it myself so she just let me do that. Apparently he'd force me to take something with my right hand, and then I'd give him a dirty look and then switch whatever it was into my left. I've had to deal with things not working for me like they should my whole life. And it's some of the weirdest little things, too. Like why can't I spread butter like a normal person? Well, if you look closely at the knives, they're keyed to be easier to use by right handed people. I switched to a knife that had the little serrations on both sides, and suddenly I could spread butter. You get really good at picking the seat at the left end of the table so you aren't bumping elbows with anyone.

As a Vietnamese, us lefties tend to get molded into the "right hand norm" from a young age. I had to learn to write with my right hand when I was 5, among other things. That resulted in me using left hand for things like sports and fighting, while the right hand is for using chopsticks and writing, etc. Now it's both funny and cumbersome at the same time to explain to my friends which is my dominant side and how it works.

Hey! I'm a leftie. I have no problem with anything! I adjust pretty quickly if there's something I have to do with my right hand. Like using a mouse. My first PC was shared with my dad who is a righty, so everytime I wanted to use a PC I had to drag the mouse to the other side of the keyboard under my left hand. I quickly grew tired of doing this everytime so I just decided to get used to using a mouse with my right hand. It was weird and difficult at first, but I quickly got used to it. Same with playing guitar. I taught myself to be proud of it and though it's not really my achievement I feel unique and original. and I don't mind people pointing it out. It's a conversation starter for sure. The only thing that really bothers me is that I can't write with fountain pen cause I really like it, I just smear whatever I write instantly.

Lefty are born warrior's ⚔️

Being left-handed has always presented a challenge to me growing up and into adulthood. I've had to adapt to using my right hand in plenty of scenarios but I'm very strongly left-side dominant. You get used to being the odd man out as a lefty but it never entirely stops being frustrating. Plus everyone is always like 'oh man you're left-handed I never noticed' or 'wow you write so weird with your left hand!' Like duh, I don't want to smudge the ink. I just want to exist and I don't expect anyone to cater to it lol.

I can’t believe that there is so much history and hardship for people who are left handed, highly underrated vid dude

Being a lefty has made my handwriting worse, and darkened my hands with the stains of ink and graphite. Like the video said, I tend to prefer to always be on the left corner of the table so I don't rub elbows. But I also hear there are some interesting cognitive differences in being left handed, like being more naturally creative and more of an information sponge, so I'm totally fine with the tradeoffs.

boy do I have a leftie story. there was a wedding in our apartment, and during the reception, me and my mother sat across our next door neighbours. I'm Indian, so it's already a societal thing that you're not supposed to eat w your left hand like you said, but that's what I do 🤷‍♀️ this lady looks at me eating, and says, "Oh, she's a leftie?" then looks at my mom and goes, "you probably never got a chance to teach/show her the right way" in a very apologetic manner. me and my mom still laugh about that to this day.

I am neither left nor right-handed. I'm also not ambidextrous. I am cross-dominant, AKA probably the most frustrating hand dominance. I perform a majority of tasks with my left hand, but also a considerable amount with my right. I write, cook, bat, use scissors and eat with my right hand but throw, swing racquets, hammer, and basically everything else with my left. Interestingly, my mother once said that I used to write with my left when I was younger, but one day I just changed to my right. I also used to use scissors with my left hand, but I changed a couple years back because it was easier. The 2 things taught myself to be (somewhat) ambidextrous with is cutting with scissors and writing. I taught myself how to write with my left hand and cut with my right. The only thing that i'm NATURALLY ambidextrous would be operating my phone one-handed. I can type well with both hands.

Being left-handed I hate scissors ✂️ 😡

When I moved to live and work in Vietnam (from US) "tay trái" (left-handed) was one of the first Vietnamese words I learned because it's so unusual to be left-handed here. I've seen a few Vietnamese people that use chopsticks with their left hand, but not one that writes with it. This is due to "forced handedness"' that is very common across all of Asia.

I'm an odd lefty. I use my left hand to write and eat, swing a bat left handed, and generally use my left as my main hand. (Think of what hand you put on a ladder first, or use to brace yourself when standing up/getting down) However. I use scissors with my right, I suck with left handed ones, use a knife with my right and left, shoot right handed, use a bow right handed, naturally want to use my right hand to shift a car , which makes sense because I'd rather my dominant hand be on the wheel!! I can also write right handed as well. Oh and chopsticks I use with my left also, but I paint pictures with my left, and big things like walls with my right.....😅

The reason I was always a lefty and wasn't forced to be a rightie was because one of my uncles was stunted mentally and my family chalked it up to the fact that they forced him, a natural lefty to a right handed norm, that probably wasn't the reason but they saw it like that anyways. So my parents always encouraged my leftiness because of it

0:33 the wrench is being held in the unscrew position so right to left. Either the animation is being run in reverse or the animator doesn't know that there is a specific way to hold it to ensure maximum torque and ensure the wrench lasts. Holding it the way it is shown in the animation will put most of the strain on the adjustable jaw rather than the fixed jaw and it will break much more quickly.

Another interesting fact regarding the very keyboard these comments are all typed on: the left-side of QWERTY keyboards contain most of the commonly used letters. So were they designed for lefties in mind? Of course not! Back in early typewriter days, typewriters could easily get jammed if typing too quickly, so a keyboard lettering layout was designed to make it as difficult as possible for right-handed dominant people to type by slowing them down with most of the commonly used letters being on their non-dominant, left-hand side. The letters most commonly strung together were also placed as far apart from each other as well to prevent jamming. The world all around us has been designed by right-handed people with right-handed dominance in mind. It's all quite fascinating really when you really look into why things are the way they are. Very well-made video, I wish your channel rapid success and growth. And shout-out to all my fellow lefties out there since we're totally the best handedness ;D

Parents attempted to change my handedness, but gave up after seeing 2 yr old me use my left hand to grip my right hand to accomplish the tasks they told me to use my right hand for. As for inconveniences, ink smudging is mentioned a lot but not much about refillable pens that unscrew in the middle opening up when writing in an exam. It does come with benefits though, I can jot down notes with the left hand while using the computer mouse with my right.

Annoyances: Bumping shoulder and Arm to your neighbour while eating or writing, Difficult to find equipment when doing Arching, Rifle, etc., Teachers and Parents didn’t know how to teach me to write with the fountain pen so I had to figure it out on my own. Advantages: The world of Right-Handedness made me learn how to use my right hand making me partially ambidextrous. I cut (with scissors and knives) only with my right hand and even learned Chinese calligraphy with my right hand. I can use my can opener with my right hand. My stuff get’s rarely stolen when I actually buy equipment for left handed people.

Great video! Leftie here, I had no idea that Arabic/Hebrew scripts also have origins in right handed bias. In fencing handedness plays a noticable role and once a left handed fencer has gotten used to fighting a right handed fencer, it becomes a slight advantage until they spar against very experienced fencers. It's definitely fascinating for sure to see how much culture is built around right handedness. I think my favorite fun fact is that "sinister" come from Latin for left while "dexterous" comes from Latin for "right".

I hope this channel blows up. Great presentation and entertaining as hell

Great and informative vid! As a leftie, the most inconvenient thing must be bumping into others elbows..that is why I always tried to sit at the most left site in school haha. But I should call myself lucky to label this as my biggest problem, because to this day still many left-handed born children are being forced to only use their right hand which makes me furious! Nothing is as bad for a young human than fucking their brain up

5:30 this happened to me in my childhood, I was naturally a leftie but because of the culture my family made me use my right hand instead

I am left-handed and to be fair the only stuff I am bad at are things that are not made to be designed for both hands (even if not intended), with the examples of scissors, bows, writing (sometimes), but at the same time I just use my righthand when not needing my left one (which is very common as exemplified in the video, because of the dominance of being right-handed). (I'm not practicing any punching or sports which are advantageous to be a leftie, sine I suck at most of them and have the situation of having a not very great time with my arms in general when using them for more than basic stuff). P.S: English is not my main language so please accept my apologies for any writing or grammar mistakes.

When Rossi retired he revealed his biggest career secret as to why he was so incredible no matter the turn: he is ambidextrous.

Everything I ever learned doing after learning how to write (the elementary school teacher won that one) I do primarily with my left hand. such as shaving, steering the car and cutting food. I can use my right hand decently well, and sometimes it comes really useful - for some tasks, any hand will do, even two tasks at the same time. Lefty and proud, that's what all lefties should feel!

I've read somewhere that it takes a certain kind of stubbornness to grow up and to grow old as a left-handed person. And I certainly effin agree.

Grew up fighting as a southpaw ... It's amazing how many people don't know how to defend the right side of their bodies in a fight you can end most fights pretty quickly by simply swinging for the right side of someone's face because most people don't bother to get both hands up

Scissors when I was a kid weren't made for both hands. They also tried to see if I could make my right hand be the dominant one but that didn't work. I love being left handed as my right hand is better than any right handed persons left.

You never disappoint. Great work!

The difference between the incidence of left handedness is cultural, in most places in ghe past, and still many places now, it is common to force left handed children into writing or eating with their 'proper' hand

Im a lefty bowler, and the oil is always more consistent on the lanes on the left side. Its a nice advantage over right hand bowlers.

I was born a lefty and both my oarents amd in 1st through 3rd grade teacher would beat me when I would use my left hand. Well, finally in third grade, I had enough and told my Mom of my abuse. That was the end of that school. Unfortuneatly, I was already trained to be a left hander and this has been affected me negatively my entire life. Until now. Beomg forced to use your right hand when you are a left hander is terrible for brain development, by rewiring your brian. This is then mistaken for learning difficulties.

The nuns who ran my preschool used to steal my left handed scissors. Seriously-- I was there for a year and they took my scissors away at least 10 times. Add to it that I'm colorblind (horrible choice on the colors for your graphs btw) and I have zero chance of doing well in preschool.

I've never really had problems with being left-handed. I used right -handed desks without issue, I've driven manual stick shift right-handed with no trouble. The only oddity I've experienced in life are the occasional people who look at me being left-handed and then ask me: "Hey...are you left-handed?" I say yes and they act like it's an impossible feat. It really isn't.

I'm a lefty and it is usually my response to why I do and think different than anyone else I come across. I meet a few lefty's now and then and would love to know what they actually think about on a daily basis.... I'm usually hyper-focused on things like creating formulas for winning the lottery or how I'll write that formula in Excel. I also contemplate the next stock I want to buy. I occasionally find myself daydreaming about random things or future plans. I did this long before I had this current job. Thankfully it's VERY repetitive so I have a lot of free time for thinking. The trick is not to get so deep into my thoughts that I zone out and stop working... It does happen occasionally though.

I am full lefty, It helped me in so many ways!. Left footed in soccer (REAL FOOTBALL). Me being left midfield/wing proved advantageous on so many occasions "score 1 for the lefties"!. Fist fights,.. anticipating the opponent is key and helps alot. I AM PROUD TO BE AMONG THE LEFTIES POPULATION😊

I'm right-handed, but I trained to my write with my left hand back in February 2023. One of the greatest decisions I made. It's so cool to sort of be a "lefty" :D

My father's side of the family has an abnormally high amount of lefties, and sure enough they're also the more violent side.😅 One thing tho, my mother used to scoff at me when she would watch me do everyday regular tasks,while my father would often defend my left handedness(his 2 eldest brothers were lefties too)

Being left handed is kinda hard ngl, especially at dinner.

I love being a leftie. However, it arises some problems. When writing, as you said, my hands get darkened with the stains of ink and graphite. Also, I was a gamer a few years ago and I played on PC. It sucked to change ALL the controls on EVERY game I play to adapt it being my left hand the hand in the mouse. And some games didn't even have the option to change controls so I couldn't play them. Also, using normal scissors is a nightmare. I always thought I was dumb and I couldn't use scissors for whatever reason till I realized it was because scissors are also made for righties! Now I use lefties scissors.

Hi again!!!!! Great video like always, keep up the good work!!😃😃❤️🙌🔥

MY GRANDPA AND MY DAD WERE LEFTYS AT BIRTH BUT IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO "MAKE" THEM RIGHT HANDED BY RESTRAINING THE LEFT HAND BEHIND THE BACK WHILE BEING FORCED TO LEARN HOW TO BE RIGHT HANDED. MY FAMILY OWNED DAIRY FARMS AND DELIVERY SO IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP IN USING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ALL RIGHT HANDED. IM A NATURAL LEFTY BUT I ONLY PREFER WRITING WITH LEFT AND WAS MORE POWERFUL AT BATTING WHEN USING LEFT SIDE BUT PLAYED WITH BOTH. I PITCHED LEFT AS WELL. BUT WHEN I USE A CHAINSAW OR WEEDEATER I DO THEM RIGHT HANDED.

Growing up beaten in school by the teacher, as a 8, 9 yr old kid for using left hand to write, and having hand tied on the back not to use it. That was late '60s

So I was born left handed, but broke my arm when I was about 5 or 6, so I had to start using my right hand. My dad is left handed, and my mom’s dad is left handed. I’m now ambidextrous 49.5/49.5% when texted by a doctor. Life is Interesting like this, I never know how to go at a task so I have to try it both ways. Playing all aspects of baseball, I’m right handed. But with golf, left handed I do better at.

I’m left handed, mom is left handed, aunt is left handed, grandmother is left handed, uncle is left handed. And I believe 2 of my cousins are left handed. Surprisingly we are all pretty ambidextrous. Eat and write with our lefts, but can do other things and use other things with our right hand. We adapt quick it’s weird. But writing will forever be a struggle

I am a lefty who needs to be always conscious about where I sit at a table when more than 4 ppl are eating. Subway card swipes(touches), hand writings, scissors, knives, sauce spoons … you name it. But Trying to overcome those discomfort probably let me to have some of the traits I like about myself. I like being one of the rare East Asian lefty.

I'm a lefty and I've actually noticed over the years that playing video games with the movement stick always used with my left thumb gives me a mad movement advantage in stuff like smash bros. Shit even elden ring I seem to have a little better movement timing and control

I am a righty, currently (yes I said currently because I am practicing for total of 6 months but did not find time to improve it) using my left hand to do everything my right hand does. and for a fact, using scissors are hard. Finding items are also not surprisingly HARD. One advice to lefties is to also prepare your right hand for some situations, be ambidextrous, it has made my life better than before. For me, it took about 15 days to get a handwriting good and fast enough to write on exams.

True, I can punch my opponents almost as if they don’t have their guards up, apparently they never “see” the left punch coming to their faces, only after they’ve felt it first, followed by combined left and right strikes in an opposite direction of what most are used to, a strong left hook ends most of the fights, same with kick. I kinda am “the rebellious son” of my family but respected over time for being unique, thinking for myself and staying true to what I believe, individualistic and competitive, I can say I’m pretty good at art and things related to “thinking out of the box”

I was right handed until I lost use of my right arm/hand when I was 13 and couldn't be more proud to be sinistre

Being a lefty..it's frustrating to blow dry your hair with a regular blow dryer..you end up turning the blow dryer off or mess up the settings serval times before your hair is dry. You can buy a left handed blow dryer but they are more expensive. Sitting at a a round table that is full of people is excruciating..bumping elbows and all.

As a hunter/ skeet shooter, for me, using a rifle is particularly difficult. Its one thing being a lefty, but I am also right eyed (meaning my right eye is dominant). In short i have to compromise using my right hand so i can properly look down the sights of the rifle. as for a pistol, I can easily just move the pistol to my right side while still being able to use my left hand to pull the trigger.

Everybody talking about scissors and nobody talking about those old-fashioned basic can openers that we had at home - it wasn't until decades later that I realised why I had such a hard time learning to open a can: I had to learn to do it with my right hand! DUH!

The latin word for left is "sinister". My grandma tried to train me to write with my right hand by giving me small gifts if I complete an A4 page this way. She gave up within two month.

In high school a bully in my school keyed the principles car and framed it on me forgetting that I am left handed. We wore uniforms hence difficult to tell apart and the cctv behind him could not of course show his face. When i saw the footage i could not hold my laughter as the guy keyed through with his right hand.

Being a lefty it was not easy to learn to write as a kid when your teacher smacks our hand for using your left hand. I write with my left, bowl with my left, throw and catch softballs with my left but there are a few things i do with my right.. like scissors. Using my fork I can use either.

Middleeastern dialects are written right to left, read right to left, and books are bound right to left with the back cover being the front cover so.. left-handed. I have been right-handed for all my life but just recently taught myself how to write with my left hand.

I write with my left hand but handle tools with my right hand.

Power tools like skill saws are dangerous for lefties. The saw blade is exposed to the right side of the saw. For righties, they grip the trigger with their right hand and stand on the left side of the saw. This leaves them protected from the spinning blade. If a leftie grips the trigger with their left hand, they are standing on the right side of the saw and exposed to the blade. I've had to learn to use other tools like scissors with my right hand in order to adapt.

I'm left handed and/or right handed depending on the action. Using cutlery to eat a meal: knife in the right hand. Cutting up veggies or putting butter on a sandwicht: left bby. I write with left, but don't fking ask me to shift gears using that hand. Neither throwing a ball. Right is actually my dominant hand/side. Aside from my kindergarten teacher trying to beat it out of me (she managed to try it once before mom stepped in), I never had much trouble growing up....I just learned to use the majority of right handed tools/actions as any other..

Hey thanks for this! It’d be so interesting to see one video about dyslexia too… I am both, left-handed and dyslexic 😝 Thanks again for the video!

I write right to left down as to not smudge my ink, typical handwriting practice for lefties in the UK. My Asian friends do the same.

People don’t force right handed people to not use their right hand. This is something that’s very specific to left-handed people. I’m very sure the number of left-handed people is actually much higher than reported. I was never forced or discouraged from using my own left hand and just naturally adapted to using right handed tools as I grew up because that’s what you get in this world. Both my hands do specific tasks but my left one is for precision.

Man this guys content is amazing

I play baseball on a pretty competitive team. Everyone else gets nice fancy gloves but for me I take the first lefty glove I can find. Evan if I think it feels weird or looks bad.

This video was awesome!!! -- Very nice. The best AND worst thing about being left-handed is when people see you write with your left hand or something, and then proceed to ask, "Are you left-handed?" LMAO

As a leftie string instruments are easy to use . Such as gutair

Greatest thing i learned was to mimic right hand dominant movement when in sports. It’s like the left becomes invisible!

i only write with my left hand, everything else i do with my right e.g. sports, eating, lifting stuff im not sure if my left hand really is that much stronger than my right

I had difficulty time as a kid my parents used to tie my left hand so i can use the the right hand… my first born is a lefty like me we understand each other

As a left handed chef, I can attest that most kitchen utensils and equipment are designed for right handed people.

My parents , teachers, fsmily members tried various ways from the first time i picked something up as a toddler with my left hand to ' slap it out of me' , words like ' no man wants a left handed woman etc' to pure bullying but i am still left handed, i did learn to use my right hand but my rebellion was always to use the left hand in the presence of others especially those i knew would say silly things about it. I am glad i prevailed and did not change for anyone!!

Now I get why teachers used to hit my left hand whenever they saw me used it to write 💀 Literally, got discriminated against for that was bullshit but after having smashed I really couldn't use my left hand to write for days

I am left handed, and biggest problem was when I was young I wrote with my right hand, ofc because everyone else was also doing it, and my handwriting was and still is terrible but fear not, with the power of the almighty keyboard writing became easy ;D

Fun fact: discrimination against lefties is called being sinistral

I am left handed I knew I was different from everyone else

I am a teacher. I can write with both my hands, which is sometimes convenient to write on the blackboard without moving too much. Again, I draw better than most people around. But, I do not know why.

I often used my left hand and foot growing up, when I was in kindergarten I was learning to write with my left hand, the teacher switched my pencil to my right hand, ever since then I've used my right hand. Although, I have been learning to use my left hand again.

This is neat. I never really worried about things being right handed. That's life and I'm used to it so I have never paid it much heed. Yet I had seen people struggle mightily and be defeated by left handed scissors. Maybe left handed people exist just in case of the event we can't give up?

Born Ambidextrous like my mother and my grandmother before me. Grew up largely switching between the two sides and even using both at the same time for writing or drawing. However.. due to a lot of work-related injuries to my right arm/wrist growing up.. I've had to rely largely on my left hand for most things. For all intent and purposes.. I've been a lefty for a long time- I can't claim the ambidextrous title until I get that motility back. But.. Hello fellow lefties!

I'm a lefty but only in teens and when writing in class it is annoying since my elbow bumps with the person next to me. Luckily you can get past this by sitting on the very left side of the table

As a left handed folk i find the title very offensive

As a left-handed person i can say, whe are depressed. And you cannot blame us

Lefty here, it gives me a very good advantage in Kendo.

I actually looked up this video because of my Arabic writing. I'm right handed for most things but I can only write Arabic script with my left hand. It looks better with my left hand and is too frustrating to try to use the right hand when writing from right to left because I like my palm to start on the page.

i have a suspision that i am naturaly a lefty but i stil write with my right hand

Actually, in lift-labe traffic, you have to use your left hand to STER, so if you have a dominant right had, gers aren't going to save you

My family is an oddity. Of my parents and siblings, 3 or 5 are left handed. Of my children, 2 of 3 are left handed. Of all my cousins, 9 of 16. Aunts and uncles, 5 of 9. I know this because we actually talked about it very recently at various family functions over Christmas. That gene runs strong in this tribe.

How dare you right hand people say something about it

well, I am the only lefty of my whole entire family. the first one in 4 generations and honestly I feel honored to be a left handed person although it does come with a lot of daily disadvantages it is really just one big advantage. I am proud to be left handed

I'm a lefty and it gets super hard to do every day tasks and always gets criticized for not being able to use my right hand as good as them. When Itell them I'm left handed they just find me annoying because. have this condition which makes ten times harder to use my right hand because other can still kind of use their right hand mine all I can do is point and grab stuff

I may write with my left hand, but throw a ball or open a door with my right hand. I can use a mouse with either hand and I favour using my right hand when using a trackpad on a laptop. I use a knife and fork like righties, but will move my glass to the left because I favour holding a glass in my left hand, I will hold a knife in my left hand when preparing food.

Southpaw here. Damn your right handed scissors!

I can only do things with my left hand. I tried teaching myself how to use my right hand for tools only created for righties but I couldn’t. 😕 I ended up having to teach myself how to use things upside down or in a weird angle in order to get things done.

As a lefty I will say it's not as bad as people make it seem and I feel unique in this world and it feels great knowing that some of the greatest people to walk this earth were/are lefties is really cool

Im ambidextrous (use of both hands) and i can say, having two hands is much better then one. Still interesting how lefties have some benefits