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Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand
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3 жыл бұрынWe might have a strong hand because having a weak hand is actually useful.
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@eliljeho 3 жыл бұрын
Stop perpetuating dexter dominance! Don't call it dexterity tasks, it's called fine motor control! Joking not joking.
@abhinavyadav66 3 жыл бұрын
Your videos are adorable and beautiful just like you
@undercoverA1 3 жыл бұрын
@@evenintaco6267 hi left handed, I'm dad.
@alto7183 3 жыл бұрын
Buen video, lo ganglionar es desconocido y no parece tener izquierda o derecha como estos cerebros centralizados, me parece extraño esa emulación en los insectos, pues su localización es distinta, ni se diga en el océano sugerencia obvservaciones. Por cierto creo que en su funcionamiento sistema ganglionar y sistema nervioso central usan estados ocultos de la materia, lo que no se sabe es si sólo 1 o 2 y más de estos al mismo tiempo, pues eso explicaría por qué no sirven bien aún o en parte interfaces máquina o robóticas y biológicas, por prótesis y diferencias de electricidad del sistema, variando en uso, pulsos, cada cambio o no de fases de cada célula de estar en varios estados al mismo tiempo como hearts etc etc, la biología es complicada y si entre simios vatia, como sería lagomorfos, roedores, caninos, felinos etc etc, al menos es biocompayibles el reino mamífero y el ser humano el actual rey mono, pero por azares de posibilidades y risas, aún incompleto, pues no es el mejor simio de su rama simios y primates, pero bueno otra historia saludos.
@Plausible_Prism2810 3 жыл бұрын
OK ngl your puns are kinda funny
@ilikaplayhopscotch 3 жыл бұрын
It’s hilarious and also very scary to imagine a spider hunting by just beating up its prey.
@MarmoMossBoll 3 жыл бұрын
"WHAT ARE YOU- DOING" "IM HUNTING!" *LE PUNCH
@spacetacos7574 3 жыл бұрын
FIGHT BACK
@Quarataia 3 жыл бұрын
The mantis shrimp literally beats it's prey to death.
@cha0sd3v3l 3 жыл бұрын
Spider hands, now rated E for everyone
@divinegiza7677 3 жыл бұрын
Literally was just thinking about this
@niklas5336 3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget that there are a lot of tasks, such as typing on a keyboard, that require the use of both hands at very high dexterity. When typing, I truthfully cannot perceive a difference between my hands. They both seem similarly dexterous and accurate. This, to me, reinforces the idea that most of the difference is manifested by learned preference - not innate disability.
@testerwulf3357 3 жыл бұрын
You can indeed learn to do a two handed task well with seemingly no difference, but one is still considered more dominant. The two aren’t less or greater than each other they just do different tasks! It’s efficient for us to pick roles for hands, it wastes less time doing it for both, but in the case of tasks like typing you’re forced to learn how to do it well with both! I personally type mostly with my right hand, my dominant, I always struggled typing and sharing sides of the keyboard between my two hands so my right pretty much does most of the typing whilst my left is there to support when needed or on occasion.
@MrMessiah2013 3 жыл бұрын
Some touch-typing websites will break down how quickly you type per-hand, per-finger, and even per-key. I use Typing Club. I find it pretty interesting that, even though I'm right-handed, my left hand is actually faster at typing. I chalk it up to decades of guitar-playing from a very young age.
@andthebeatgoeson69 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrMessiah2013 right handed guitar player too. You'd think we would fret notes with our right hand. A little tip: if you think you suck at guitar, try to play it with the opposite hand. Unless you're Michael Angelo Batio, you'll feel better about your playing from your preferred side
@JannPoo 3 жыл бұрын
Handyness has nothing to do with dexterity, the video explained it well, there are tasks that right handed people usually perform with their left hand even if they arguably require more precision, strength and complicated motions. The best example for this is the guitar or violin, where the left hand must quickly move into complicated configurations requiring every single finger (pinky included) to push the strings, meanwhile the right hand only requires 2-3 fingers and it generally performs the simple task of striking the strings or moving the bow. The actual difference is a matter of specific tasks. The dominant hand is meant for action, while the other hand is meant for support. This is the reason why joypads always have the action buttons on the right side, while the movement pad is on the left side. Or why the hand that pulls the trigger in rifles is always the dominant hand, even if the weight of the weapon lies on the other hand. Some tasks cannot be very well be split into action/support, like typing on a keyboard, and anyway through training you can overcome your natural preferred hand (this is what most left handed people have to do), but there's a reason why the Enter key or the period are on the right side, because those are the buttons that execute the sentence you are writing. Meanwhile if you are right handed chances are you are using the left "shift key" to write in upper case an almost never use the right "shift key", because that's more a support role than an action role.
@cryingwater 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a gamer and I could write 40wpm with my right hand being so bad at typing while my left is so good since it touches the keyboard most of the time. When I a managed to get my right hand to be almost as good as my left at typing, my wpm peaked at 84 and averaged at 65wpm
@bash6555 3 жыл бұрын
As a right handed kid, i was always puzzled by the fact that i was the only person getting annoyed by not being able to use my left hand as much, and started to use it more often, sometimes even only the left one, because "what if i lost my right hand" Fast forward 10 years, and i am a right handed guy with left-handed tendencies and a left arm more stable and powerful than my right. I can basically do any task more quickly without getting tired by only switching hands coz they both can basically do everything
@Blackade2000 8 ай бұрын
That "what if I lost my right hand" was both hilarious and spot on tbh
@Egerit100 8 ай бұрын
I had a "what if I lost/injured my right hand" phase after I got an extremely annoying cut on my right thumb and realized how screwed I was without my right thumb. Didn't take it as far as you, but did learn a little bit
@A8Y9N 8 ай бұрын
Fk. I never thought of that
@grandevox 8 ай бұрын
I was also a fully right-handed kid until I heard about how left-handed people are better in art and music in general. I thought it was unfair that I could never be a good musician if I stay right-handed, so I trained my left hand to be my dominant hand. Of course nothing happens to my musicality but now I'm pretty much ambidextrous. The thing is that I feel like everyone has a certain percentage of handedness, and somehow I was born with almost 100% handedness on my right hand. Until now (about 10-15 years after I made the decision to be left-handed), I still can't perform everything with my left hand. My right hand still somehow overpowers my left one in terms of strength, precision and speed. And somehow my right hand is not suitable for support either. It fails in some support tasks and it frustrates me how I wasn't born with left-hand tendencies. It's great knowing that apparently my left hand has never been so useless after all cause even though it may never by my dominant hand, I know it's an amazing support hand.
@Handles_arent_a_needed_feature 8 ай бұрын
I mean if you lose your right hand youll learn how to use your left one pretty quickly
@jzneto 7 ай бұрын
I am ambidextrous for a lot of things. And I developed that on purpose since I was 13. The point of the "weaker" hand as a supportive one is totally true and I always say that. When people try to train the other hand, things seem more difficult at start than they should be because we often try to only emulate the dominant hand movements and totally forget the supporting job of the "weaker" hand. Pay attention to both hands when doing a task and then try to switch hands. It will help a lot.
@kathydodge8028 4 ай бұрын
I'm right handed and I cut my right thumb badly 2 weeks ago, so I've been forced to do a lot of things non-dominantly since then. I feel like you're absolutely correct, since I realized a few days in that I needed to focus much more on support from the right hand. Once I did it got much, much easier!
@THEWEIRDOX3 3 ай бұрын
I'm ambidextrous too and I got mine when I was 10
@miloelite Ай бұрын
So insightful! I tried to be ambidextrous & gave up. Never considered the off-hand role, always hyper-focused on the “main hand” I was using at the time.
@EmL-kg5gn 5 күн бұрын
That method is genius!
@vacafuega 3 жыл бұрын
I tried switching hands for a while and found that while it's relatively easy for my left hand to take over the right hand activities, it's WAY harder for my right hand to figure out how to support. Being a seamless assistant is a whole other level compared to just doing things well.
@Iceash0607 9 ай бұрын
I presume that's because when ur doing something with one hand all ur attention focus goes to that hand while the supporting hand subconsciously learns its role and position, and over the time of doing the task it becomes muscle memory for the supporting hand without requiring any attention put to it. So when u switch hands and focus on the task at job u naturally put less focus on supporting hand as explained the video it will drain u faster when u focus on both hands.
@Link411_ 8 ай бұрын
Dominant hand is the doctor, nondominant is the nurse 😂
@Bluesonofman 8 ай бұрын
@@Link411_My right hand is for writing while my left hand is for driving
@kaleoscreations8069 8 ай бұрын
@@Bluesonofmanhopefully not at the same time!
@Bluesonofman 8 ай бұрын
@@kaleoscreations8069 Of course but that’s just how my hands are more wired to work
@IamCoalfoot 3 жыл бұрын
I first realized how important my non-dominant hand was when I realized _it_ knows how to move me around in video games. It is neither less useful nor less dexterous, they're both just specialized to their roles, which seems to work out alright I'd say.
@enigmatic2878 3 жыл бұрын
Me too! People keep saying I should switch to the lefty (since I'm a lefty) so i can attack with my left. But I prefer the attacking to my right and the movement to my left
@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 3 жыл бұрын
I never thought about that before. When playing DS games I almost prefer to use my weaker right hand for the touch screen. That way I can move with my left far quicker.
@enigmatic2878 3 жыл бұрын
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 aay! Someone gets it!
@aaoo25 3 жыл бұрын
@@enigmatic2878 same here. I can't play on left-handed mode despite being a lefty.
@moon4236 3 жыл бұрын
@@enigmatic2878 There's a left hand mode??
@Arclor 8 ай бұрын
I trained myself to be ambidextrous over like 6 years. Main reason was I read it was good for your brain plasticity and gave you an advantage in martial arts (it might, but not much lol). Never regretted it for a second; I love being able to pick up and do something with whichever hand is closer. 99% of the time I don't notice, but there are a few quiet moments in my life that have made it worthwhile!
@TheEllord33 8 ай бұрын
The brain is very flexible, it's not an handicap to needessly learn stuff, we don't have limited memories.
@Fennecalgerie 7 ай бұрын
where did you get your pfp from? its so nice
@ariyaddna 6 ай бұрын
I took the same decision, and till now, I can say life's a little easier.
@Arclor 6 ай бұрын
@Fennecalgerie Thanks :) So the story behind this pfp is rather nsfw.... you've been warned heh. The story: I essentially found it on a subreddit where they take images from porn, and then photoshop them to make them into SFW memes. One of the images involved this cat's face (probably plastered over a woman's nether regions for innuendo). I thought the cat was so cute that I cropped out the porn part, and drew in the rest of the cat's face, ears, and chest in ms paint and power point.
@Fennecalgerie 6 ай бұрын
@@Arclor I wasnt expecting that
@soldierofEYUPBrepublic 5 ай бұрын
As a left-hander, I can say that you will have an advantage in most sports. I was kickboxing at the time and my trainer told me this
@DKNguyen3.1415 Ай бұрын
Although, lefties must also beware other lefties, ironically enough. No immunity here!
@UnPuntoCircular 3 жыл бұрын
When I fractured my right wrist, I had to learn to use my left hand for daily tasks. And I got pretty good at it, but it required a lot of practice to build that "neural circuit" and strength.
@astronics 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly same thing happened with me just that I broke my Right hand's finger.
@nobody7708 3 жыл бұрын
I’ll never have these problems since I rarely go outside so I probably won’t fracture any of my limbs anytime soon lol
@astronics 3 жыл бұрын
@@nobody7708 you are missing out on some important vitamin D.
@nobody7708 3 жыл бұрын
@@astronics u see,there’s currently lockdown in the place I live in so I literally CANNOT go outside.
@astronics 3 жыл бұрын
@@nobody7708 stand in your balcony or terrace if you can 👍, I am also in the same condition and this will destroy what I said but I haven't been under the sun for months...
@dynamystic3050 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you included that the non dominant hand has tasks its optimized for. There are many activities which my "dominant" hand is far worse at completing.
@cutie1b 3 жыл бұрын
So true I’m left handed but I can do some things better with my right; like using scissors but I thought that was because I was living in a right hand world
@sarahluchies1076 3 жыл бұрын
@@cutie1b Same!
@31redorange08 3 жыл бұрын
Name those activities, please.
@first-last557 3 жыл бұрын
@@31redorange08 ever try to move in an 8 pattern with your right hand using WASD?
@woodfur00 3 жыл бұрын
@@first-last557 Anyone who prefers arrow keys over WASD isn't going to relate to this.
@PescadorGama 8 ай бұрын
What's amazing is that depending on the task, your preferred hand may vary and not always be the same one!
@Regina316 Ай бұрын
Yup, that's me. My right hand is way more dextrous, but my left is much stronger. So I write with my right, but give me a soda bottle and I'll grab the cap with my left to unscrew it. XD
@Artemipso 5 ай бұрын
As an ambidextrous person I actually perform completely different functions with my two hands. I use my right hand to write and use my left hand to play sports and draw. I can switch their roles up with relative ease (i.e. I can also use my left hand to write decent long essays) but I tend to have a preferred side for each specific activity.
@GreyKnightsVenerable 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Due to the designs of castles, left handed swordsmen would outperform right handed swordsmen in enclosed close quarters combat. (Raiding side.)
@julietardos5044 3 жыл бұрын
My husband and I visited a castle in England which had the stairs in reverse because so many people in that family were left handed. (I don't recall the name or where specifically it was.)
@hannahherrmann4921 3 жыл бұрын
@@julietardos5044 Could it have been Ferniehirst castle?
@julietardos5044 3 жыл бұрын
@@hannahherrmann4921 I totally and completely do not remember the name. This was over 20 years ago.
@filippo6157 3 жыл бұрын
I go fencing and fighting left handed people is soooo difficult
@coocooformycocoapuffs3235 3 жыл бұрын
feels good to be left handed
@eh9618 3 жыл бұрын
Fighting a left handed person in a sword fight? Big mistake. That leftie has experience fighting right handed people! Right handed people fight southpaws less often!
@neferpizzastudios2733 3 жыл бұрын
Left handed power!!!!
@Beegrene 3 жыл бұрын
The same principle applies in baseball with right/left-handed pitchers against right/left-handed batters.
@ulforcemegamon3094 3 жыл бұрын
The same things applies for box , left-handed people has a Upper hand since they are used to fight right-handed people , meanwhile right-handed people will likely have barely fought left-handed people at all
@eh9618 3 жыл бұрын
Yep..that's why southpaws seem to generally be better at sports. Due to their experience against roght handed opponents while the opponent rarely goes up against a southpaw
@Human-gu2cx 3 жыл бұрын
@@neferpizzastudios2733 screw you wrong hander.
@Ohem1 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve always had more sensation and sensitivity on my left side, I was taught to be right handed but became left handed over time as it was easier. This also means I perceive pain more on my left side than right, so most ”grunt” work is done on my right as it’s less strenuous.
@literalphoton 8 ай бұрын
I remember one time I was bored in like third grade, and i made it my mission to use my non-dominant hand for months until I learned to be ambidextrous. I soon realized how hard of a task that was, but not exactly for the reason I thought it would be. Using my dominant hand for simple supporting tasks like holding down the paper while I wrote with my non-dominant hand was actually just as difficult as writing with my non-dominant. I gave up after like a month or two because I had gotten behind in class by being a slow writer but tbh I think the experience did train me to get a little better with swapped hand roles, because everyone compliments how well I can write even with my non-dominant hand.
@le9038 3 жыл бұрын
Ambidextrous people must be looking at both of their hands right now contemplating life after finding out they're inefficient.
@lilldavid6903 3 жыл бұрын
@Qeycon which studies?
@POTUSBrown 3 жыл бұрын
I'm cross hand dominate, meaning I use a different hand for different tasks. So I guess my brain couldn't decide.
@le9038 3 жыл бұрын
@Qeycon no. In the description, they put in that they accidently typed "birds" instead of "humans" in there but they decided to keep it. This was later removed.
@michaelFoucheGodIsGood 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao fool. I am way superior to you with my abilities. Such ridiculous notion that a 2 handed strong dominate person like me can be out performed because your so called left arms is now weaker and better at support. Ridiculous
@mynd8486 3 жыл бұрын
@Qeycon I don’t know what studies you’re referring to, I’ve done plenty of research myself and there’s a lot of evidence that cross dominance / ambidextrousness causes the brain to be confused, which can take longer for retrieval of information. Studies also show that rather than having specialized tasks both hemispheres share the same tasks but do a worse job at it. It’s not much of a talent as people think it is, I’m ambidextrous and would honestly prefer being single handed. Doing a quick google search of “is ambidextrous good” shows that most sources say no, and I’ve done research beyond this. When you google something make sure not to put the answer to your question in the question, like “why being ambidextrous is good.” Or you’ll get biased results.
@Video_Commenter 3 жыл бұрын
I lose a brain cell everytime people ask me: “How can you write with your left hand”
@crazydragy4233 3 жыл бұрын
They haven't heard of left handed people yet xd
@Video_Commenter 3 жыл бұрын
@@crazydragy4233 Yep they live under a rock xD
@yveltal825 3 жыл бұрын
just respond with "My left hand is just smarter than my right"
@Video_Commenter 3 жыл бұрын
@@yveltal825 I’ll remember those words and thanks to you I’ll keep my brain cells
@deanrensberger631 3 жыл бұрын
Nice stauber pfp!
@johntheherbalistg8756 8 ай бұрын
I think, in the modern world, it's not such a bad idea to devote the resources to ambidextrous-ness (I'm not sure how that word really works). My mother injured her dominant arm pretty seriously when she was young and, as a consequence/hidden benefit, became ambidextrous, once she healed. Watching her my whole life, I'm so incredibly jealous of how not useless her "off" hand is in so many tiny ways (not to mention future injuries). Also, as was made apparent to me during my time in the service, eye side dominance is suboptimal. There are ways to train that kind of ambidextrous, too. Why shouldn't we devote a little extra time and a few calories to it?
@averagedoomenjoyer1232 3 ай бұрын
Im not a native speaker but i think it should be called "ambidexterity"
@Stratelier 7 ай бұрын
As a lefty (and one of three in a family of five), none of us _ever_ bothered trying to learn how to mouse with our dominant hand. And once two-button mice became standard, it wasn't worth the effort of constantly switching which button the OS considers the primary one. It was simply easier to learn to mouse right-handed to begin with.
@whistletoe 3 жыл бұрын
“Our other hand isn’t weak. It’s optimized for other tasks.” This applies to many things in life actually. We all have different strengths, and so-called “weaknesses” are just a result of a narrow mindset :)
@TheFertoledo 8 ай бұрын
Its not how it works though, she said one holds the paper and the other writes. Both hands can hold the paper just as efficiently but only one can write well. Its not like the non dominant one is better than the dominant one at some things, it never is.
@ST-in7fo 8 ай бұрын
@@TheFertoledomy left hand is definitely better at fretting playing guitar
@TheFertoledo 8 ай бұрын
@@ST-in7fo Yes i realized after wrting this comment how it didnt apply to all scenarios. I looked down at my hands and realized my left hand couldnt handle my mosue as well as my right and my right was not as good with the keyboard. I guess not for everything but i would still say most things.
@fadumomohamed2342 8 ай бұрын
@@TheFertoledo You should watch the video again, she said when it comes to stabilizing an object (paper, camera, etc...) the non dominant hand is more efficient than the non dominant hand. I think that's what she was talking about.
@TheFertoledo 8 ай бұрын
@@fadumomohamed2342 Is your dominant hand really worse than the other at stabilizing objects ? not mine.
@jackanderson1155 3 жыл бұрын
"MinuteEarth with hands isn't real, it can't hurt you" MinuteEarth with hands:
@icantthinkofaname8139 3 жыл бұрын
Its kinda scary ngl
@HassanSelim0 3 жыл бұрын
what next? xkcd with hands?! that's the stuff of nightmares!
@agbeyenumadison6224 3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, the hand animation was uncalled for. Even in a video about hands that wasn't called for.
@bejanb64 3 жыл бұрын
Not just minute earth, stickmin in general Exept henry stickmin
@dankpepe2110 3 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of absurd stickman of Sam O Nella.
@PotatoSlayqueen 3 күн бұрын
I finished learning how to write with my left hand last week just to find this video
@w01fy51 3 жыл бұрын
So pretty much for efficiency and the fact that our left hands can play a supporting role for our right hands, like stabilization
@carviz7199 3 жыл бұрын
me who is horrible with both hands: my goals are beyond your understanding
@kjl3080 3 жыл бұрын
Ah, ambisinistrous
@tilkilit 3 жыл бұрын
Same
@eternalflame49 3 жыл бұрын
@@kjl3080 I thought that said ambidisastrous lmao-
@lyn_jae 3 жыл бұрын
Ah, same. My handwriting is chicken scratch 😂
@YeprilesteR 3 жыл бұрын
Counters: You are kind of bad at everything. Pros: You use less energy. I guess, if we follow the theory of the video.
@RatusMax 3 жыл бұрын
Let me tell you something, when I started painting, my art was stiff, slow and rigid. So I switched from my right hand to my left. Instead of trying to think about how to paint my left hand freely moved on the canvas and made a solution on to how to paint. I did this for about a week and saw my left hand make solutions to painting and drawing. It freed me from overthinking my hand movements and actually start to paint. I had this abstract but accurate art. When I switched to my right hand I had the solution to draw/ paint better with my hand. I noticed when I tried again I used both concepts from what I did with my left hand and the precision of my right hand. Your "weaker" side has different solutions to problems that your more rigid side may not have. Your rigid/dominant side is biased AF. What you consider training, I consider habits made over time. When you are free of bias, you can sometimes make choices that aren't weighed down by them. In my case it was art. I've also noticed feeling in my right hand is different in my left hand. I can't explain it but when I touch the same place on my face, the right hands makes my cheek feel like it's buried in the flesh. While my left hand makes it feel like my cheek is strong and rigid.
@vmxkarelyn_0842 3 жыл бұрын
Lmfao my handwriting and art is uber shit with *both* hands that the amount of shit is fucking three inch above seat level
@theparrot6516 3 жыл бұрын
This sounds like cap
@vmxkarelyn_0842 3 жыл бұрын
@@theparrot6516 I'm being serious. My hand writing is absolute doo doo
@AR_9900 3 жыл бұрын
@@vmxkarelyn_0842 Oof, hope you improve. :D
@Azukwuah 3 жыл бұрын
Well I’m a lefty and when I draw with my right I do soooo bad
@dr_doritotf2305 7 ай бұрын
You complete changed the way I look at my left hand! I will no longer take it for granted!
@antiawarenessawarenessclub 3 жыл бұрын
TIL we're all technically ambidextrous, just that the "off" hand is used for less noticeable tasks
@epiphanymaplethorpe2592 3 жыл бұрын
Ah~true. And also, Wei WuXian pfp👀
@w.d.gaster3261 3 жыл бұрын
Just say "both-handed".
@goutamboppana961 3 жыл бұрын
lolololol true
@skycrafter2042 3 жыл бұрын
@@w.d.gaster3261 no
@hunternocedaclawthorn 3 жыл бұрын
@@w.d.gaster3261 ambidextrous.
@davidguthary8147 3 жыл бұрын
As a cellist, the idea that the "weaker" hand is optimized for different tasks makes sense. While my right arm is definitely the more powerful and dexterous of the two, my left fingers move faster and with more precision. I have to actively focus more to make my right fingers do the same movements I can do with my left without thinking.
@kenners4975 3 жыл бұрын
do you think thats because your left hand is actually faster or thats just because thats how you learned to play?
@davidguthary8147 3 жыл бұрын
@@kenners4975 I suspect it's a combination of both. When playing the cello, you use your dominant hand for bowing and your non-dominant hand for fingering. Faster fingers mean quicker and smoother changes between notes.
@awesometani8148 3 жыл бұрын
I'm learning the cello in school, and I see what you mean
@videogamerNattie98 3 жыл бұрын
Being left handed I write and eat with my left hand and in many tasks am left handed in. But things like the Wii for instance or on my computer right now with mouse and keyboard control I do with a right hand dominant style. So from my experience you do indeed have a dominant hand but you can train your off hand to be dominant in tasks you believe a right/left hand dominancy would be better in. I did notice though my right hand was stronger but my left hand was more dexterous and if I was paying real close attention it would appear my right hand is slightly thicker then my left hand which is slightly thinner. Its also why I would where throwing is concerned throw things with my right hand instead of my left.
@t0rya 9 ай бұрын
Woah this is weird my nondominate is faster too suddenly and im a pianist
@Roxor128 3 жыл бұрын
I had two cats with different handedness. One would prefer his left paw for swiping at things, the other his right. The left-handed cat was the smarter of the two and also lived longer, nearly making it to 15. We were never sure about the age of the right-handed cat, though, but he died about 6 years before the left-handed one.
@thekingoffailure9967 7 ай бұрын
ok
@ardabaser1349 7 ай бұрын
A benefit of having a preferred side is probably that it prevents ambiguity when it comes to which side to use for a certain task. If you are just fine using whichever side, you might not be able to act quite as fast since your brain has to solve the question of which hand to use first.
@fancy3774 Ай бұрын
Nope ambidextrous don't even think about choosing a side. Whatever hand grabs a tool goes to work which is efficient than people with a preferred side because they have to adapt to whatever side they use. Eg in sketching. a left handed person will find it hard to draw an objects facing left side and vice versa but this is no problem for ambidextrous people because they often switch hands when drawing.
@RexusKing 3 жыл бұрын
I've decided to strive for ambidextrous, you know, as a redundancy when my dominant hand got chopped off😂
@Finkelfunk 3 жыл бұрын
As someone who was forced to turn into an ambidexter after a stroke I can tell ya that you can learn a lot of things with your left hand, but I'd say it only does about 90% as well as my right hand did previously, despite now about 3+ years of daily training, and counting.
@haroldinho9930 3 жыл бұрын
really
@laimawolf6826 3 жыл бұрын
Wait, why do you and I think alike xD I also want to be ambidextrous-
@hebl47 3 жыл бұрын
If I were you I'd put more effort in making sure my hand doesn't get chopped off.
@RexusKing 3 жыл бұрын
@@Finkelfunk Yep, that's what I suspecting. 3+ years seems to e long time, but you've using (training) your dominant hand for your whole life, so 90% efficiency is actually extremely fast learning! I know I can't never be truly ambidextrous, so I use the verb "strive"! (Be wishes on you continual recovery!🤗)
@Jouzou87 3 жыл бұрын
"Adorable hyena pictures" *hyena proceeds to crush a bone with his teeth*
@fajaradi1223 3 жыл бұрын
Aaaaand laugh at you while doing it
@notesmaker204 3 жыл бұрын
Still adorable.
@The360MlgNoscoper 3 жыл бұрын
*Her, it's likely a she. They made a video on that.
@Jouzou87 3 жыл бұрын
@@The360MlgNoscoper Oh, right. I've even seen it, but forgot. I partially blame my native language which doesn't have gendered pronouns.
@chrisb9143 3 жыл бұрын
but that's cute !
@GMPranav 9 ай бұрын
I had to learn to use directional keys with my right hand for a retro game. It was a very difficult to learn lol. I am too used to WASD with left hand.
@toslaw9615 7 ай бұрын
For writing and other precise tasks I prefer my right hand, but if I have to hold something relatively heavy but not heavy enough to require both hands, I'm most likely going to use my left hand. It's just much more used to holding such things while my right hand is much more used to more precise tasks like opening the door.
@glennschroeder8013 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: handedness also had a role to play in hand-to-hand combat. People are trained to block attacks from the left side, because the majority of fighters are right-handed. So when a southpaw comes along, they often beat out their righty opponents, or at least gave them a nasty surprise. This sort of thing inspired that scene in Princess Bride. You know the one. It also made its way into castle design. Towers would typically wind clockwise when going up, meaning that any attack from a righty would go right into the column in the middle. Meanwhile, a right-handed defender has a clearer line of attack *and* has the advantage of height.
@thelumitesystem3004 8 ай бұрын
well, as a 'southpaw' (never head that term in my life) that has been doing martial art for 5+ years, I think I should start a new side hustle.
@vittoriolasam912 8 ай бұрын
Wait, wouldn't a left hander also hit the column? Since you're facing your opponent with the opposite handedness it means you're mirroring each other- hence the left hand would also be at the side where the column is (assuming the lefty has the high ground). Correct me if i'm wrong
@KalonOrdona2 8 ай бұрын
Right-hand: advantage facing downstairs (defender), disadvantage facing upstairs (attacker) Left-hand: disadvantage facing downstairs (defender), advantage facing upstairs (attacker) RtDef vs LfAtk, neither hitting column LfDef vs RtAtk, both hitting column@@vittoriolasam912 LfDef vs LfAtk, defender hitting column, attacker free RtDef vs RtAtk (majority case / as designed), defender free, attacker hitting column
@mysticalmagic9259 8 ай бұрын
@@thelumitesystem3004You've never heard of "southpaw?" It's been around for ages. Rocky is a famous fictional southpaw.
@thoughtbox6391 8 ай бұрын
No it wouldn’t. The defender wouldn’t hit the column, but a raider would. Lefties because they are mirrored would cancel that advantage, as well as supplying their own advantage. The lefty would be at a disadvantage if they had a high ground.
@davidm5674 3 жыл бұрын
Me, an ambidextrous person: *Confused Screaming*
@ionen 3 жыл бұрын
Don't feel bad. You have great a conversation starter. It may also help impress chicks.
@thany3 3 жыл бұрын
You're weird. Not badly so, but interestingly so. You're as weird as a cat that has two different coloured eyes, kind of, which is beautiful 😀 I hope you find your ambidexterity useful 😏
@LORDOFDORKNESS42 3 жыл бұрын
No joke, I had to look up what that's even called in my native tongue when I started figuring out: 'oh shit, I'm not left OR right handed.' DESTROYED some of the other kids in some sort of science experiment in OVERALL time where you were sopped to show how much slower your non-dominant hand was by moving peas with chopsticks... but yeah, the dude's with dominant hands were pretty consistently entire seconds faster then me with that hand. By the by, it's 'two handed' literally translated from Swedish's 'två hänt.' Always found that direct bluntness a little amusing.
@Shefetoful 3 жыл бұрын
heh, this loser can't collect seeds as efficiently as me
@hasanmuhammad6651 3 жыл бұрын
@@Shefetoful *n o m*
@lilsprugga 6 ай бұрын
Doesn't take long to train your "other"side! And when I broke my right thumb I was glad I had taught myself to be ambidexterous.
@Wonwoah 7 ай бұрын
I actually used ti write with both of my hands when i was 3. Then i figured out that my left hand works better. And my oarents always wonder why im the only left handed in the whole family. Even my grandma's grandma isnt even left handed. No ones left handed except me. I used to be insecure about it since i used to get bullied for being left handed. But now, it made me feel special.
@aIkaIi 3 жыл бұрын
"You only have the brain power to use one hand for complex tasks" *piano players scoff*
@ritwikreddy5670 3 жыл бұрын
I mean its not much different than gamers using wasd
@gabrielbarrantes6946 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, because that statement is false, we are just lazy to train both sides to do stuff, also it does not have any practical use
@justaregularnoob8239 3 жыл бұрын
@ShiKeiki HaniYamaxanadu from danganronpa or something else? Because from the name Kaede i can NOT think of anything else besides danganronpa
@becausereasons8507 3 жыл бұрын
*musicians* *
@breather8758 3 жыл бұрын
@@ritwikreddy5670 It is
@moritzhapperger5807 3 жыл бұрын
„Gorrilas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring dexterity.“ Funny you should say that because dexterity originally means right-handedness.
@eliljeho 3 жыл бұрын
True, so……… fine motor control………
@snugget7601 3 жыл бұрын
gorillas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring their right hand
@yossyasmey8245 3 жыл бұрын
@@snugget7601 lmao
@ms.cherry7855 3 жыл бұрын
@@snugget7601 😂
@sivan1127 8 ай бұрын
I was born left handed but my mother would slap my left hand every time i use it because it is inauspicious in south India. So i grew up using my left hand for power works and right hand for precision works, meaning i use right hand for writing and eating and left hand for lifting. This makes me weirdly inefficiently efficient
@walterevans9118 Ай бұрын
They said being being a left hander is a mostly a talent and i did not need practice My right hand: what am i to you💀💀💀
@Minth_aaa 3 жыл бұрын
People who plays instruments, I don’t have such weakness.
@jessica1lopez 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks to playing the violin, I have learned to use my left hand more. I'm currently trying to make my left handwriting be good. So far, it's almost on the same level as my right hand, but I need a little work for it. By the way, my normal handwriting (without using cursive) isn't as pretty so it was easy to catch up, and it's been easy so far to try and make both normal and cursive be good. I have been focusing on my right-hand cursive much more, which is making my normal handwriting be not as good, but I'm also working on it.
@haneenboumenjel 3 жыл бұрын
I play piano and because I am left handed, i can play with my left hand easier but it isn’t too bad
@Dhanu_lol 3 жыл бұрын
As a violinist, after learning to play violin, now I can use both my hands equally
@soullesscadmium30 3 жыл бұрын
I play two but I write worse than a one year old with my left hand
@adrnnn_ 3 жыл бұрын
yeah, in the violin id say that the left hand has it harder, w all the shifts and the muscle memory it takes to play decently, so its vv cool to have such advantage
@Jeremy-wp4yh 3 жыл бұрын
I've become ambidextrous overtime because I am left handed but the world was created for right handed people. So eventually you learn to use both your hands.
@ananas22anne 3 жыл бұрын
so true.
@MM-tf4xt 3 жыл бұрын
Same, my mother was a lefty at birth. But because she learned housewife things from her mother as a kid. She learned to do everything with her right hand. So I didn’t know she was originally a lefty until I was 16. So she became ambidextrous too, because of right-hand dominant society.
@jazeturner65 3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@Yazan_Majdalawi 3 жыл бұрын
@@MM-tf4xt Racist right-handed world >:(
@prabhakarsingh9644 2 жыл бұрын
Same
@UramazingXxX 3 ай бұрын
I love how "preform heart surgery" was said like it's an everyday task for everyone
@samuela-aegisdottir 4 ай бұрын
Octopuses have one prefered tentacle and seven supportive ones.
@ryleejane8373 3 жыл бұрын
When I had a teacher tell me I was "writing on the wrong side of the page" when I was just using the side that didn't strain the binder rings against my wrist, I almost rewired my brain in order to sock her in the jaw using the hand I wasn't writing with
@veragirljones8039 3 жыл бұрын
I know! I hate when teachers say that!
@commenterjosh2428 3 жыл бұрын
That should be a crime! Your teacher deserves to go to jail or at least pay a fine for that! Of course, teachers as a whole also deserve higher wages, but sometimes people just don't get what they deserve.
@folklore_of_beth 3 жыл бұрын
Or you can just use your brain and take it out of the binder….
@BluePangolin 3 жыл бұрын
Or hole punch the other side and watch them all squirm
@threepeater_gaming7710 3 жыл бұрын
@@folklore_of_beth so you are gonna carry a bunch of loose papers everywhere
@iandoesallthethings 3 жыл бұрын
In drumming I always thought it was weird that the off hand gets used for all the detailed and more irregular rhythms (like snare ghost notes). Then I realized that my strong hand (right) had been playing steady constant rhythms on the hihat on total autopilot for YEARS and it made sense. The strong hand has independence so I can devote attention to the other hand. Of course rudiments are specifically meant for breaking this need, but I'm not a percussionist. I'm just a saxophonist who drums sometimes.
@squmulonimbus 7 ай бұрын
Same idea with the guitarists confused on why they don't fret with the right; more precision is needed for actually strumming in time than fretting (or fingerpicking where's it's obviously no contest). Although plenty of lefties learn to play the more typical right-handed guitar with no issue, so it's not a major difference. Also when starting to learn songs on the drums, you usually learn to play 8ths, 16ths, and swing patterns with the right (& move between cymbals/snare with faster hi hat rhythms), while the left just plays snare on 2 & 4.
@msiyellalot 5 ай бұрын
shes like that one friend who comforts u even though ur pretty much useless
@erikamohrmann7986 5 ай бұрын
So this past weekend I went spelunking with some friends and because my left hand is so much weaker than my right, I couldn’t let myself down the rope. I fell about 8 feet or so and someone caught me but my new goal is to strengthen my left side at least a little more than it is
@self-proclaimednimwit2263 3 жыл бұрын
I NEVER HAVE OR WANT TO SEE STICK FIGURES WITH FINGERS EVER AGAIN
@self-proclaimednimwit2263 3 жыл бұрын
Jk, the great video made up for it :)
@Stickman_Productions 3 жыл бұрын
Then you would not want to see henry stickman
@enigmatic2878 3 жыл бұрын
@@Stickman_Productions Henry has a vibe that I can't explain which makes it more suitable for him.
@worstusernameintheworld9871 3 жыл бұрын
I've always drawn stick figures with hands since I was a kid, didn't knew it was weird tbh
@Tinil0 3 жыл бұрын
"Gorillas use their right hand for tasks that require dexterity" Well I hope so Kate, they need to reserve their left for being sinister!
@thatmarchingarrow 3 жыл бұрын
Ah, the Latin jokes, gotta love 'em
@thatmarchingarrow 3 жыл бұрын
@Heberth R. 'Dexterity' comes from the Latin word for right, and 'sinister' the Latin word for left
@WEFAbender6 3 жыл бұрын
Clever girl
@Taracinablue 6 ай бұрын
I went through a phase as a kid trying to do tasks left-handed in case I broke my right arm or something. (The one that "stuck" was brushing my teeth.) Actually, something much more chronic happened: tendonitis, and I took college notes left-handed my senior year.
@chaotic_raisin 5 ай бұрын
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
@klieu90210 3 жыл бұрын
I'm cross-handed. My left is preferred for some tasks, and my right is preferred for other tasks. Left hand - using (knife, scissors, razor, comb, toothbrush, sports equipment, towel), shooting (basketball, gun), throwing accurately, holding cups/bottles, opening jars, punching, carrying bags, jacking off, grabbing nearby/small stuff, vacuuming Left foot - kicking Right hand - writing/typing, painting, throwing for power, grabbing far/long stuff, wiping butt, stacking, arranging, decorating, using (fork, chopsticks, tweezers, whisk, remote control, computer mouse), scratching itch Equal preference - pouring liquids, pushing buttons, using a spoon
@hazelcrisp 3 жыл бұрын
Same here but different tasks
@samuelding7854 3 жыл бұрын
Same
@doopdacoop4054 3 жыл бұрын
I was reading this like it was normal then I read “jacking off” and everything changed
@Call-me-Al 3 жыл бұрын
Allegedly, being cross-handed is common among autists. Which makes me really curious about why, though I assume it is because autists have above average issues with motor control in our youth.
@andy_liga 3 жыл бұрын
Same here, had to train myself in my late-teen to use my left hand forcefully in order to "save some work" for my problematic right hand wrist... It took a couple of years to get used to it, but now I can't deny that being cross handed is quite convenient...
@anerdwithaswitch9686 3 жыл бұрын
Me, who eats and writes with my left, bats and throws with my right, and plays tennis and badminton ambidextrously: [confused screaming]
@Deathnotefan97 3 жыл бұрын
Are you left handed by nature? Because what you described is called "cross-dominance" where one side is preferred for some tasks and the other side for others, it's very common in left-handed people, as often times we are forced to navigate in a right-handed world, and it's often easier to just learn to use a tool right-handed then to track down a left-handed variant
@sanatjain4670 3 жыл бұрын
Hand switch trick shots guy I can hear the hall/ court going OOOOO!!
@anerdwithaswitch9686 3 жыл бұрын
@@Deathnotefan97 Yeah I'm a leftie by nature. And that does make sense; I know when I was learning how to play the trumpet finding a left-handed trumpet would've been a pain so I just learned to play with my right, for example.
@jankisi 3 жыл бұрын
I'm right handed, but I use knifes with my left and skate with the left and jump with the right unlike most of my classmates. But I write, cut, throw, kick, ... with my right which is weird. In PE classes, I had to jump with my left foot when we played handball because I had to throw with my right hand. So annoying
@POTUSBrown 3 жыл бұрын
@@Deathnotefan97 cut to me grabbing right hand scissors with my left hand. Left handed people also get into more household accidents because tools are made for right handed people.
@carlramirez6339 4 ай бұрын
Yeah just because I'm right handed doesn't mean that I don't need my left hand. Just because it plays a supporting role, it's still very useful.
@bjbboy71697 4 ай бұрын
An interesting example of this effect is rubik's cubers and specifically with one-handed solving. Right handed cubers will almost always use their LEFT hand for one-handed! 2 reason: one, your brain is more geared towards turns of the right and top face which are easier to do with left hand one-handed; two, normally your left hand stabilizes the cube and its layers while your right hand flicks the actual side, but it turns out it's easier for the left hand to learn how to flick the side than it is for the right hand to learn how to stabilize the cube. i think this can also be seen when shooting a gun or in archery. you use your LEFT hand for stabilization (which is the harder of the two jobs, i mean the other hand just has to pull the trigger). Maybe your dominant hand is better at being mobile and dynamic while your non-dominant is better at being steady and precise while remaining still. So interesting!
@PackJot 3 жыл бұрын
I never doubted that "it's good to have a weekend"...
@itismethatguy 3 жыл бұрын
Lol yeah
@dhcarrot1195 3 жыл бұрын
nice
@soapy2587 3 жыл бұрын
same dude
@dhcarrot1195 3 жыл бұрын
@toshio I think he already “left”
@tzalvulris285 3 жыл бұрын
Me, an ambidextrous person: *What has I been doing this whole time?*
@emcaco 3 жыл бұрын
You are spec'd to have a backup in case something happens
@tzalvulris285 3 жыл бұрын
@@emcaco That is how I been looking at it this whole time. This did end up making my hands weaker than most people's hands, but hey, I got a backup.
@redgoldcrown3990 3 жыл бұрын
@@MikaePark-6 that's a pretty handy way of putting it, you know. righty, lefty, ambi.
@maumau9466 3 жыл бұрын
Me : *laughs in right handedness*
@taxaviebro6411 3 жыл бұрын
Its interesting how nobody in this reply section corrected his grammar mistake: *have
@danmartinez6308 3 ай бұрын
Left hand: write, throw a ball, catch a ball, darts, use a knife, use a hammer, use TV remote, used to smoke, drink... Right hand: golf, bowling, use a drill, use a mouse, use a phone... I can do all these with either hand, but better with one for each task, like I can juggle 2 balls in one hand, but slightly better at it with my left hand
@radustefanvicol1461 3 ай бұрын
I think that when you train yourself to use any hand for any task you understand the task itself better. In case of an injury you might actually need the other hand. Also, it is simply nice to not feel like you have a "useless" hand.
@camerondon3712 3 жыл бұрын
This is actually quite fascinating. I'm a lefty - can't so much as hold a pen in the right hand. But I've noticed quite a bit recently that if holding two things of different weights, the heavier of the two would be in right, for things like throwing or controlling, while the lighter of the two is in the left for more dexterous or fine coordination. It's weird, considering I've never noticed this before until about a month or so ago.
@RedDragonGamingYT 9 ай бұрын
same!
@alexm.6533 8 ай бұрын
It’s so weird to me that as a righty, other people cannot do things like holding a pencil with their right hands.
@renchesandsords 3 жыл бұрын
On the sword point, left-handedness can be a serious advantage, I have a left-handed friend I used to spar with, and I can say with firsthand experience, it is much harder to get used to due to the different ways your opponent can move because their actions are mirrored
@deborahlin7781 3 күн бұрын
I think in general the dominant hand has to do the more precise part of the job while the other hand supports. That’s why we can still use our non dominant hand to do less precise tasks like washing dishes or opening the door
@petrsevcik5044 4 ай бұрын
So our off hands are the supports of the hand world. Underappreciated for what they do and never getting the recognition they deserve :D
@katanaquits5255 3 жыл бұрын
Me with no hands: *”I truly am optimized”*
@n-man8208 3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes
@princeeliasbulseco7883 3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes
@OjamaBestDeck 3 жыл бұрын
Hold up, how did you type without hands
@n-man8208 3 жыл бұрын
@@OjamaBestDeck psychic powers
@oqlapsldim 3 жыл бұрын
@@OjamaBestDeck "Hold up, how did you t̶y̶p̶e̶ wipe without hands" 😋
@Shnarfbird 3 жыл бұрын
0:50 Kate T-posing to assert dominance
@pixelzebra8440 7 ай бұрын
When I first started learning violin a few years ago, my parents were confused as to why you didn’t play it on a different side if you were left handed. Other than people’s bows not bumping against each other, now it’s way easier to stay pressing the strings down with my left while moving the bow with my right as opposed to the opposite. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to learn and retain both ways Now I wonder if it works a similar way or not for learning multiple languages
@Samstercraft77 7 ай бұрын
ive considered learning how to play violin with the wrong hands even though im right handed just for the funni lol
@ianerickson2210 7 ай бұрын
From the thumbnail I thought you were going to magically explain why my poor penmanship is a biological advantage over those with cleaner writing abilities than myself.
@gcecg 3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Many moons ago, my high school Spanish teacher told us that her grammar school teachers frowned on left-handedness and insisted that all the students learn to write with their right hand. As a lefty, she had trained herself to do that. As a result, she could write with either hand from left to right, or as a mirror image from right to left. She showed us on the blackboard... and the backwards writing was flawless!
@cloudpopfluff 8 ай бұрын
I like how you worded it - "many moons ago".
@1.4142 3 жыл бұрын
"There's something I want to tell you." "What?" "I'm not left handed either."
@DemonClo 3 жыл бұрын
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
@enigmatic2878 3 жыл бұрын
@@DemonClo lore?!??! Ima call the theory man to figure this out!
@y8ice 3 жыл бұрын
@@DemonClo Inconceivable!
@cch444. 3 жыл бұрын
@@DemonClo popcorn popcorn , who wants some popcorn only for $5 today
@aaaamxr 3 жыл бұрын
@@DemonClo LMAO THIS IS SO RANDOM I LOVE IT!?!?!
@Leyrann Ай бұрын
I don't know how this works for other things, but playing the guitar has little to do with the primary hand, as both hands perform roughly equally complex tasks. As a left-handed person, I just learned it the right-handed way because that made for easier communication with my teacher + I didn't need a special guitar. I know a similar thing is becoming more common for drums, which I also played for a while; for a long time, right-handed people were taught to use the 'crossed' style, where you use the hi-hat with your right hand, but it's actually much simpler, independent of your preferred hand, to use the hi-hat with your left hand, so now more and more right-handed people are learning to play that way.
@BortPlate 6 ай бұрын
1:46 That monkey has learned sign language and wants the scientists to know how it feels about escaping the lab.
@alostsoul2553 3 жыл бұрын
For some reason my hands literally just swap roles when the other one gets tired of theirs
@vindric8330 3 жыл бұрын
:o
@cryptidinthewoods7262 3 жыл бұрын
thats so cool!
@alostsoul2553 3 жыл бұрын
@@cryptidinthewoods7262 wait isnt it normal or something?
@cryptidinthewoods7262 3 жыл бұрын
@@alostsoul2553 i mean i could swap the roles too,but whatever i am doing would get really messy then,so i usually take a break in general. if its for example eating with a spoon and your other hand,thats cool,but things like idk sewing,writing or drawing are too messy lol xD
@elizabethi8353 3 жыл бұрын
I do that a lot too
@thenamestails7152 8 ай бұрын
2:46 did you know that most forts have stairs that always twist in one exact direction? That's because almost all the warriors were right-handed, and it was more convenient to build a fortress with such stairs so that warriors above had even more advantage of having more space to swing a sword. That's also why Japanese people walk on the left side. They were also mostly right-handed, thus wielded katanas on their left hips. So, to avoid colliding their katanas, Japanese soldiers always walked on the left side, and thair traffic law still keeps it as a tradition/habit.
@Komi83 6 күн бұрын
As a cross-dominant, I can tell why it's called hand confusion sometimes. I don't have a dominant hand nor foot and basically no dominant side at all. It took a long time to train my hands for specific tasks and it often doesn't make any sense to people who are watching. I write with my right hand, usually, I've been taught to use my right hand in school so I did, but I can write with my left hand too if I have to, tho not as fast. I open bottles, jars and pretty much everything that opens with spin with my left hand, because it's more natural movement for the left wrist. I use the computer mouse with my right hand, because I had available only one ergonomically customized for the right when I learned it, same with using my phone, because the side buttons are on the right side and the thumb is the only digit that makes sense to use for pressing those. I swear, you never realize to what degree is this world made for right handed people if you're one (or before you found out you're actually not, like me), since I've never heard about a left handed phone, but it's true that it's made inconvenient for left handed people. I get used to performing each task with whiever hand makes it more convenient and in cases where it's none of them, I perform noticeably inefficient compared to people with dominant side. For examle handling cutlery, I won't even notice when the table is set for a right handed person and when for left handed, I just pick it up with whiever hand is closer. But I was also told I handle the task like a nine year old, so not exactly a superpower...
@Scorpio3002 3 жыл бұрын
A buddy of mine is ambidextrous. He spent a lot of time as a kid trying to learn to play piano, but he couldn't figure out how to separate his hands; they would both just wind up playing the same thing. On the plus side, he had a lot of early success in baseball, being a switch-hitter in little league.
@deldarel 3 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of a growing trend in silicon manufacturing, where a high power core has a low power cores for background processes, making the whole thing as powerful, but more efficient
@groszak1 3 жыл бұрын
This only works for reduced instruction set computing though
@afluffydoggo1698 4 ай бұрын
I'm right handed, but I have been training myself to be ambidextrous for a long time, though I still have a long way to go: It definitely pays off, my efficiency has greatly increased for daily activities. Sure, it takes a lot of effort and time to develop strength and ability, it is also training for your dominant (for those weak hand tasks) and it can be confusing at first since now you rely too on your "weak" hand. But if you commit to it, you'll reach a point in which using both hands starts to feel natural, the "which hand I use" doubt will go away, and only then you'll notice the efficiency. It just takes time, be patient.
@Amuztak 8 ай бұрын
But the thing is that when you write or do something, you tend to use only one hand, not both, so the energy used is still from one side, whether it's right or left, it's not like we write with both hands at once.
@saims.2402 3 жыл бұрын
So it must be better to have two weak hands right! I must be a legend!
@WilliamAndrea 3 жыл бұрын
1:49 - If anyone was confused like me: "Sailfish have been reported to use their bills for hitting schooling fish [...] Identification of individual sailfish based on the shape of their dorsal fins identified individual preferences for hitting to the right or left side." -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish
@waidi3242 7 ай бұрын
I now feel bad for being ambidextrous.
@DevidCipher 9 ай бұрын
The thing is, my parents always encouraged my to "change prefered side" for a week or a month once a year. And it changes a lot for you, especially your complex thinking and planning. But let's be serious about what you will use that for. Try using a pc with a mouse at the other side of keyboard. Trust me, your teammates might hate your game skill, but when it will come to tactics, you will outperform a drunk general.
@LikeWagon 3 жыл бұрын
*Ambidextrous people:* We have no such thing as weak hands
@Stella-fc9xn 3 жыл бұрын
I used to be ambidextrous. But they made me unlearn it when I was a kid.
@Mysticgames136 5 ай бұрын
@Stella-fc9xn Once you are ambidextrous, you are ambidextrous forever. I figured out I was ambidextrous and I could swap hands with each task I could do. People have taught me to be right-handed, and now I could write with my left hand and right hand at the same time.
@Simpaulme 3 жыл бұрын
Playing the guitar is an interesting one - which requires more skill, the frets or the strum? 🤔
@YIIMM 3 жыл бұрын
Imagining trying to fret with my dominant hand feels much the same as trying to write with my non-dominant one. Fretting or fingerpicking, that's a real matchup
@rosemarycrafting1202 3 жыл бұрын
It depends on style. Also depends on previous musical experience. Strumming a steady beat is surprisingly difficult. All I can say is that I'm sure the guitar was designed like that for a reason, and there are left handed guitars, so I guess strumming is harder.
@testerwulf3357 3 жыл бұрын
I guess it depends on the person? I struggle a bit with the pick..As I have to keep a rhythm but the strings require certain complex movements too. It’s kind of a tossel on which is worse and likely also depends on how skilled you are with certain things!
@Ruslan-S 3 жыл бұрын
I'm right handed but when I tried to learn the guitar I was astonished that someone thought fretting would be an easy job for the left hand. It requires such strength and such awkward positions, while the right hand is just vibing and keeping a beat or following a 1 dimensional pattern of strumming. Maybe if I got a left handed guitar I would actually learn something in the end 😂
@MrMessiah2013 3 жыл бұрын
@@Ruslan-S Just Hendrix it and see if you're any better that way.
@redneckhippiefreak Ай бұрын
I am a hobbyist glass blower. When I was first starting out I was told that I would find myself using my non-dominate hand for a lot more than I ever thought possible. I kinda laughed because I was/am a tradesman that works with my hands daily. 18 years behind the torch now and I still find myself amazed at how much I rely on that weak hand to complete very tedious and precise movements. I am certainly not ambidextrous but I have developed a very versatile limb that has translated to improving my supporting trade as well.
@Thetechgeek2100 5 ай бұрын
My right hand is what I call my dominate hand. Though my left hand is what I used to carry heavy objects, open doors, cut food while eating (though when I cut while cooking, I go back to my right).
@spoiltmilk6511 8 ай бұрын
i left handed and taught myself to be ambidextrous out of boredom. its just like learning anything else, you just do it badly until you do it well
@exyl_sounds 3 жыл бұрын
Me, an ambidextrous: P a t h e t i c
@thegr8estparisever376 3 жыл бұрын
Hello random verified person.
@thisiscoolyo 3 жыл бұрын
me, an ambisinistrous: extra pathetic
@danhlammeme468 3 жыл бұрын
ayy you're the guy who made the discord song :D
@asdasf8817 3 жыл бұрын
congratulations you are inefficient
@lemonpie_vanilla 3 жыл бұрын
Le checkmark.
@carolinemurphy8872 3 жыл бұрын
I like being ambidextrous. I paint for a living and I can paint with both hands. Comes in handy in tight quarters.
@loganricherson 6 ай бұрын
I'm right-handed and i can do that fairly well too, though there's a limit
@mayankify 3 ай бұрын
my physics professor could write from both hand. smartest man I know.
@brycecollier7590 4 ай бұрын
I’ve always felt that I could strike or throw harder with my dominant hand and lift more weight with my non-dominant. It makes sense to delegate specific tasks to each hand
@itsasecret2132 3 жыл бұрын
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Me Five!!
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@quietquin5981 3 жыл бұрын
you can say it comes in Handy. You guys make topics easy to Grasp. I might need some Pointers. Its the Write time to stop these puns.
@D.KlWA-aG 3 жыл бұрын
somebody is gonna punt you to the next dumpster
@sanatjain4670 3 жыл бұрын
Thand you U were being impawsible U did the *right* thing when u *left* writting it
@tesswinker2482 3 жыл бұрын
If you could just put your finger on it. Give this person a hand! Stay palm.
@michaelenelmar 8 ай бұрын
I'm left handed and got tired long ago by the disadvantages, especially in writing. So I started training my right, for years. Now I can write with both hands which is very cool to impress students when writing on the blackboard. But I can only use on hand at once, the other goes in stanby. Also each hand had it's own style. I think training both sides in every aspect gets you better "wired" and you train your brain to use more of it's capacity. Learning new skills is always positive, I don't see a reason why not to apply that for your "unconscious" side. It's like telling a piano player that it's not good to play with both hands or typing on a keyboard. I love practicing touch typing, gets me into a flow state. Enjoy and practice to get more balanced.
@WildArtistsl 5 ай бұрын
Bro I want to be able to use both left and right that's such a cool advantage!
@michaelenelmar 5 ай бұрын
@@WildArtistsl Just get started and be very, very patient. Observe how you do whatever with your strong hand and than try to mirror it to the other one.. Simply holding a pen is very hard in the beginning. If you want to learn writing do some hand writing exercises first.
@amer6706 8 ай бұрын
When I worked at a commercial greenhouse my left hand was stronger for trays while I use my right for deftly grabbing plants and putting them in said trays.