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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.
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.
@@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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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.
I think you bring up an interesting point of trained vs untrained ambidexterity. I'm ambidextrous, or rather cross-dominant, so that I have a different dominance for different tasks. Like I'll write with my left, and throw with my right, but if I don't think too much about it and just go with muscle memory, I'm completely fine with using the other hand for writing or throwing. I've already built the connection, so I just need to focus on my goal rather than the task, and the body mostly knows how to accomplish it.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Fun fact: Due to the designs of castles, left handed swordsmen would outperform right handed swordsmen in enclosed close quarters combat. (Raiding side.)
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.)
@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.
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
@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.
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!
@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.
“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 :)
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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!🤗)
I'm left handed too, idk how left handed would give an advantage, but maybe it's the unexpectedness of hitting with a hand the right handers didn't expect too. Lolol
@@ViriKyla a left handed fighter would have fought many right handers as its most people on the other hand the right handed fighter facing right handers too... so the left hander will have an advantage of experience
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 😏
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
„Gorrilas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring dexterity.“ Funny you should say that because dexterity originally means right-handedness.
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?
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.
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
@@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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Same! I'm left handed too, but I use my mouse with my right hand and press w with my left. When typing I use both hands though the right kinda has more keys to do than the left. Lolol
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
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!
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
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.
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
@@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
I've been practicing *a lot* of drums in the past 18 months, focusing *a lot* on my weak left side. Over time, my perception of my left has changed significantly, like it's more of its own entity, an entity I can control with precise intent, than just that side that is not that skilled enough to do things. As a matter of fact, my left went beyond my right in some aspects and I unconsciously lead things with the left, which I never would've done before, for simple lack of ability. The body - the brain specifically - is one mind bogglingly versatile and adaptable bio machine.
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.
I'm right handed only for the things that were thought to me as a child. Writing and archery for example. But I'm able to use my left for other things I learnt on my own throughout the years, like playing games, spinning pens and batting in cricket. I play football and my left leg is actually better than my right but tougher to use and control but that's just because of experience. Sometimes I wonder if I was a lefty who was raised as a right handed or if I'm ambidextrous but was raised as a right hander.
@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.
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
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.
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!
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 😂
The thing about off-handed skill is so valid, though. I have so many things where I'm good with my left hand, but if my right tried it I'd immediately fuck up, whether that's because it's a two handed task where both hands are confusing me or because I just haven't practiced as much with my right as my left. Like throwing a frisbee, where my best throw is with my right...when I'm throwing backhand. Forehand, I'm actually notably better with my left because I spent so much time on forehand with my right that it's just not very good at forehand any more.
It's great to have a strong amd weak hand. When I make personal signatures I use my weaker hand that creates what seems to be random scribbles on a page, this is so that nobody will be able to recognise whenever I use my dominate, stronger hand to forge signatures.
What's real weird is cross-dominance. When one eye is stronger but the other hand is. You end up with different tasks preferring different sides when most people prefer the same. For instance, I'm slightly less awful at batting "left handed" despite being right handed, because I'm left-eyed.
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Question: Being left-handed or right-handed is something each person is born already decided and cannot switch, or is it something that we simply learn? We as kids decided to start writing with one hand and after doing it a bunch of times we became good at it, and since we didn't train the other it isn't good. Is that it? In case this is it, why are 90% of people right-handed?
the right hand as mentioned in the video is controlled by the left side of your brain. This side of your brain is also the side that handles language. So a couple thousand years and communicating through writing becoming more and more common, in addition to many cultures meeting out lefties (catholics found left-handedness a 'sign of the devil' and forced lefties to write right handed), your genetically predisposed to picking your right hand. Now that's not 100% guaranteed, I'm a lefty I'm proof of that. But this is the current theory.
I suspect it’s at least partly genetic. My father is very strongly right-dominant, my mother is left-dominant but not nearly as strongly, and I’m about as right-dominant as my mother is left-dominant.
In my family, when new kid is born, at age about 2-4 we observe and figure out are they righty or lefty, since both are genetically present. I saw it with my sister. When she was small, she tried both if her hands for tasks like holding a spoon, but she became a definite righty. I think she figured it while starting to draw, but if im not mistaking, she handed and reached for things with right hand often from small age. But also, my gran is a lefty who was taught to be a righty as a child. I gotta look, how dies she operate
This may be far from being a scientific-based answer for your question of why are most people right-handed, but i think that the disadvantages left-handed people face can play a role on it. For example, think of a chair with a table attached on its right side: left-handed people will have a hard time writing comfortably on it. It could be a reason why many left-handed people would be forced to do everything with their right hand early on, making them used to it in the future. In my case, i was "born left-handed". Both of my parents were right-handed. They told me that when i first started drawing, writing and cutting paper, i would always use my left hand. My mom later realised how disadvantaged i could be in the future because of this and quickly started to teach and encourage me to use my right hand from a very young age (probably 3/4). The result? I am now a "converted" right-handed woman and i would certainly do a terrible job if i try to write my name with my left hand. Also this may not be a common case, but it definitely proves that right/left-handedness is something we can possibly learn, but of course this would be easier when done at a young age
Those right handed desks are terrible. As a lefty I had to use those a few times at school. I had to put my notebook in my lap to take notes because the right-sided desktop was tiny and didn't extend to the left side.
Playing guitar has always been interesting for me in this regard, because generally you need much more dexterity in your weak hand to play chords and riffs.
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.
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
The “supporting role” aspect of this is the interesting part. For instance, I kick balls with my right foot, this means that I am much more stable on my left foot as my left always has the task of supporting my body and keeping my balance. If I had to choose a leg to loose it would be my right. Even though I consider my right leg my dominant leg, I’m significantly more confident being on one foot when it’s my left.
I have never had such weakness for my mind was not weak. It held within the strength to use both my hands at equal proficiencies. I pity your weak mind and your weak hand forever a slave to its oppressively "dominant hand" for my hands are partners. Equal in strength and opportunity.
@@a-drewg1716 i miss that power. i had a multiple point fracture + hammer finger combo wrecking the grip on my lefty. Now i have to get my righty all inky like the rest of lowly beings 😂
I would've thought that having a preferable hand would have eliminated indecisiveness and shortened decision making as you would have to think about the other hand less when making life or death decisions.
What i gathered from the video is that it takes time to develop the same skills in both sides. So it boils down to practice more than anything. If you practice using both hands you may not struggle so much with that decision making. It's not like you start off good at writing as a child regardless of dominant hands
The way I discovered this notion myself was interesting, it was working as a server. I would hold trays, often heavy ones, with my left hand while my right manipulated whatever was on it. Even though I'm right handed (except for eating in which case I'm left handed with fork and spoon for some reason?) I can't hold a tray steady with my right. My right is more dynamic and my left more static.
The same goes for me, I am left-handed and I do everything with my dominant hand except some things. For example I simply can’t control the computer mouse with my left hand, and since my childhood I just took the mouse with my right hand, even nobody told mento do so. I also hold my phone with my right hand most of the time, sometimes I switch hands, but I can’t hold the phone with my left hand longer than 15 minutes or so
if the only process required to build strength in your non-dominant hand is the loss of energy, than I believe that any person who has that extra energy should do.
Exactly what I was thinking. And as long as you dont overwork yourself and you give yourself time to sleep at night, losing energy isnt the worst thing in the world
@@Moonlit.forest exactly. Especially in a first-world country where over 60% of someone's week is free time. A lot of people have even more time than that as well.
Yes. And you may have never noticed it, but similar to animals with dominant legs or other limbs, humans also have a dominant leg / foot and eye. It would be the eye you might use more when squinting at something that's hard to see or the leg you start walking with first or use to reach an object or kick a ball. In my case, my dominant hand, leg and eye are all on my right side. I don't know how commonly each side is favored in those other body parts though.
I am ambidextrous and have been since I was a little kid. But I found it confusing and time consuming having to decide which hand to use before starting any task. Kid me already had problems making decisions in the moment without having to think them over for a month or so and I would spend like 5 minutes switching hands deciding which one to write with. So early on I would decide what task I would use each hand for and just got into habit of doing it that way. For example I always write with my right hand now because that's just how I trained myself since in school I saw teachers reprimanding students who were left-handed and thought oh okay so right hand is for writing (although there was a time my right wrist was broken and I used my left instead but that was the exception). However after full day of classes as a kid my right hand would hurt from writing so when I got home I would always draw with my left. So now my right hand is for writing and left hand is for drawing. It came a little bit to use when in my most boring high school classes I could doodle with my left hand while writing down notes with my right at the same time. And I just divided all tasks like this besides ones that I do often and need to give my hands a break for. So using a mouse I sometimes go left-handed if arthritis starts killing my right hand. Using my smartphone one-handed I could do both hands depending on where I am and which hand makes more sense to use. But not for eating food. Depending on utensil I would use a different hand: chopsticks in the right, forks in the left, spoons in both, knives in the right, sporks in the left. You kinda just pick a hand and stick with it. Honestly I don't know if it matters which hand is your dominant. Or at least if it does, it probably isn't a huge difference. With practice and training you can get good at anything. The only thing is for left-handed people they often get discriminated against so I am kinda glad I can pass for a right-handed person. I would have hated for my teachers to have forced me to use a hand I was uncomfortable with when I was a kid. My sister was left-handed when she was little and they basically forced her into learning how to use her right hand. Now she uses her right hand for most things and would count herself as right-handed, but is that okay? And when in my class in elementary school (in Russia) the teacher would literary give a student who was left-handed a failing grade everyday when he didn't try using his right hand, I always felt that it was a crappy thing to do.
I'm a lefty and am glad I didn't know about teachers forcing leftys to be right handed until I was a teenager. I have learned to do many tasks right handed just because the tools used are for rightys.
Мда, как-то неадекватно у вас учителя поступали с левшами... Интересная история с выбором ведущей руки для конкретного занятия ‐- если бы я увидел кого-то в классе одновременно пишущего одной рукой и рисующего другой, этот человек официально стал бы для меня самым крутым в школе :D
My dad is ambidextrous and grew up with the teacher slapping his left hand with a ruler any time he started to write with it. To this day he usually approaches writing with his right hand while most other tasks he uses his left. Sometimes I ask him to switch on the spot and he can continue doing whatever he's doing like he didn't switch, though his left hand writing isn't quite as good as his right, it's still very good. It's unfortunate he had to experience that, hopefully teachers are more understanding these days and embrace ambidextrous students instead of treating them so poorly.
When I'm using my hands, they always like "dude, I'm the one doing hard job for so long, switch with me" and the other like "nah man, my job is harder, let's switch". In the end, they have to switch back and forth cause it all hard work
I’ve heard many stories like this. My grandpa grew up in USSR and when I asked him what was his dominant hand, he told me that he used to be left-handed, but the schools made kids write with their right hand, by tying the left hand behind their backs or hitting it with a ruler every time a student used it. Nowadays my grandpa doesn’t really write, but when he does be uses his right hand. That probably has some other reasons as he is an old man who suffered from a stroke and has other health problems as well, so yeah. And I think this story says more about the Soviet Union that it does about dominant hands
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.
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Stop perpetuating dexter dominance! Don't call it dexterity tasks, it's called fine motor control! Joking not joking.
Your videos are adorable and beautiful just like you
@@evenintaco6267 hi left handed, I'm dad.
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.
OK ngl your puns are kinda funny
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.
Exactly same thing happened with me just that I broke my Right hand's finger.
I’ll never have these problems since I rarely go outside so I probably won’t fracture any of my limbs anytime soon lol
@@nobody7708 you are missing out on some important vitamin D.
@@astronics u see,there’s currently lockdown in the place I live in so I literally CANNOT go outside.
@@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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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
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!
Left handed power!!!!
The same principle applies in baseball with right/left-handed pitchers against right/left-handed batters.
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
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
@@neferpizzastudios2733 screw you wrong hander.
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.
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!
I'm ambidextrous too and I got mine when I was 10
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.
That method is genius!
I think you bring up an interesting point of trained vs untrained ambidexterity. I'm ambidextrous, or rather cross-dominant, so that I have a different dominance for different tasks. Like I'll write with my left, and throw with my right, but if I don't think too much about it and just go with muscle memory, I'm completely fine with using the other hand for writing or throwing. I've already built the connection, so I just need to focus on my goal rather than the task, and the body mostly knows how to accomplish it.
It’s hilarious and also very scary to imagine a spider hunting by just beating up its prey.
"WHAT ARE YOU- DOING" "IM HUNTING!" *LE PUNCH
FIGHT BACK
The mantis shrimp literally beats it's prey to death.
Spider hands, now rated E for everyone
Literally was just thinking about this
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.
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.
Dominant hand is the doctor, nondominant is the nurse 😂
@@Link411_My right hand is for writing while my left hand is for driving
@@Bluesonofmanhopefully not at the same time!
@@kaleoscreations Of course but that’s just how my hands are more wired to work
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.
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
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.
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 aay! Someone gets it!
@@enigmatic2878 same here. I can't play on left-handed mode despite being a lefty.
@@enigmatic2878 There's a left hand mode??
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.
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.
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
@@cutie1b Same!
Name those activities, please.
@@31redorange08 ever try to move in an 8 pattern with your right hand using WASD?
@@first-last557 Anyone who prefers arrow keys over WASD isn't going to relate to this.
Fun fact: Due to the designs of castles, left handed swordsmen would outperform right handed swordsmen in enclosed close quarters combat. (Raiding side.)
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.)
@@julietardos5044 Could it have been Ferniehirst castle?
@@hannahherrmann4921 I totally and completely do not remember the name. This was over 20 years ago.
I go fencing and fighting left handed people is soooo difficult
feels good to be left handed
Ambidextrous people must be looking at both of their hands right now contemplating life after finding out they're inefficient.
@Qeycon which studies?
I'm cross hand dominate, meaning I use a different hand for different tasks. So I guess my brain couldn't decide.
@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.
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
@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.
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!
The brain is very flexible, it's not an handicap to needessly learn stuff, we don't have limited memories.
where did you get your pfp from? its so nice
I took the same decision, and till now, I can say life's a little easier.
@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.
@@Arclor I wasnt expecting that
I lose a brain cell everytime people ask me:
“How can you write with your left hand”
They haven't heard of left handed people yet xd
@@crazydragy4233 Yep they live under a rock xD
just respond with "My left hand is just smarter than my right"
@@yveltal825 I’ll remember those words and thanks to you I’ll keep my brain cells
Nice stauber pfp!
“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 :)
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.
@@TheFertoledomy left hand is definitely better at fretting playing guitar
@@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.
@@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.
@@fadumomohamed2342 Is your dominant hand really worse than the other at stabilizing objects ? not mine.
"MinuteEarth with hands isn't real, it can't hurt you"
MinuteEarth with hands:
Its kinda scary ngl
what next? xkcd with hands?! that's the stuff of nightmares!
Honestly, the hand animation was uncalled for. Even in a video about hands that wasn't called for.
Not just minute earth, stickmin in general
Exept henry stickmin
This reminds me of absurd stickman of Sam O Nella.
1:48 i thought that monkey had just flipped me off-
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.
Lmfao my handwriting and art is uber shit with *both* hands that the amount of shit is fucking three inch above seat level
This sounds like cap
@@theparrot6516 I'm being serious. My hand writing is absolute doo doo
@@vmxkarelyn_0842 Oof, hope you improve. :D
Well I’m a lefty and when I draw with my right I do soooo bad
"Adorable hyena pictures"
*hyena proceeds to crush a bone with his teeth*
Aaaaand laugh at you while doing it
Still adorable.
*Her, it's likely a she. They made a video on that.
@@The360MlgNoscoper Oh, right. I've even seen it, but forgot. I partially blame my native language which doesn't have gendered pronouns.
but that's cute !
me who is horrible with both hands: my goals are beyond your understanding
Ah, ambisinistrous
Same
@@kjl3080 I thought that said ambidisastrous lmao-
Ah, same. My handwriting is chicken scratch 😂
Counters: You are kind of bad at everything.
Pros: You use less energy.
I guess, if we follow the theory of the video.
What's amazing is that depending on the task, your preferred hand may vary and not always be the same one!
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
We have the same profile picture
My left hand eats finger foods so my right hand is clean for grabbing my drink/phone/anything
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.
do you think thats because your left hand is actually faster or thats just because thats how you learned to play?
@@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.
I'm learning the cello in school, and I see what you mean
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.
Woah this is weird my nondominate is faster too suddenly and im a pianist
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.
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.
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
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
@@Lumite-123You've never heard of "southpaw?" It's been around for ages. Rocky is a famous fictional southpaw.
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.
I've decided to strive for ambidextrous, you know, as a redundancy when my dominant hand got chopped off😂
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.
really
Wait, why do you and I think alike xD
I also want to be ambidextrous-
If I were you I'd put more effort in making sure my hand doesn't get chopped off.
@@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!🤗)
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
Although, lefties must also beware other lefties, ironically enough. No immunity here!
I'm left handed too, idk how left handed would give an advantage, but maybe it's the unexpectedness of hitting with a hand the right handers didn't expect too. Lolol
@@ViriKyla Since there are fewer left-handed competitors, they stand out more in the eliminations and create differences in their movements.
@@soldierofEYUPBrepublic Yeah good point true
@@ViriKyla a left handed fighter would have fought many right handers as its most people on the other hand the right handed fighter facing right handers too... so the left hander will have an advantage of experience
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
That "what if I lost my right hand" was both hilarious and spot on tbh
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
Fk. I never thought of that
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.
I mean if you lose your right hand youll learn how to use your left one pretty quickly
TIL we're all technically ambidextrous, just that the "off" hand is used for less noticeable tasks
Ah~true.
And also, Wei WuXian pfp👀
Just say "both-handed".
lolololol true
@@w.d.gaster3261 no
@@w.d.gaster3261 ambidextrous.
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.
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.
You complete changed the way I look at my left hand! I will no longer take it for granted!
Me, an ambidextrous person:
*Confused Screaming*
Don't feel bad. You have great a conversation starter. It may also help impress chicks.
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 😏
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.
heh, this loser can't collect seeds as efficiently as me
@@Joel2Million *n o m*
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
Same here but different tasks
Same
I was reading this like it was normal then I read “jacking off” and everything changed
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.
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...
People who plays instruments, I don’t have such weakness.
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.
I play piano and because I am left handed, i can play with my left hand easier but it isn’t too bad
As a violinist, after learning to play violin, now I can use both my hands equally
I play two but I write worse than a one year old with my left hand
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
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.
"You only have the brain power to use one hand for complex tasks"
*piano players scoff*
I mean its not much different than gamers using wasd
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
@ShiKeiki HaniYamaxanadu from danganronpa or something else? Because from the name Kaede i can NOT think of anything else besides danganronpa
*musicians* *
@@ritwikreddy5670 It is
„Gorrilas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring dexterity.“ Funny you should say that because dexterity originally means right-handedness.
True, so……… fine motor control………
gorillas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring their right hand
@@snugget23452 lmao
@@snugget23452 😂
I NEVER HAVE OR WANT TO SEE STICK FIGURES WITH FINGERS EVER AGAIN
Jk, the great video made up for it :)
Then you would not want to see henry stickman
@@Stickman_Productions Henry has a vibe that I can't explain which makes it more suitable for him.
I've always drawn stick figures with hands since I was a kid, didn't knew it was weird tbh
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?
Im not a native speaker but i think it should be called "ambidexterity"
"Gorillas use their right hand for tasks that require dexterity"
Well I hope so Kate, they need to reserve their left for being sinister!
Ah, the Latin jokes, gotta love 'em
@Heberth R.
'Dexterity' comes from the Latin word for right, and 'sinister' the Latin word for left
Clever girl
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.
same!
It’s so weird to me that as a righty, other people cannot do things like holding a pencil with their right hands.
Me, who eats and writes with my left, bats and throws with my right, and plays tennis and badminton ambidextrously: [confused screaming]
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
Hand switch trick shots guy
I can hear the hall/ court going OOOOO!!
@@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.
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
@@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.
This explains why I (learned to) use a computer mouse with my right hand even though I write with my left, interesting!
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.
so true.
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.
Same here
@@MM-tf4xt
Racist right-handed world >:(
Same
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
I never doubted that "it's good to have a weekend"...
Lol yeah
nice
same dude
@toshio I think he already “left”
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.
Same! I'm left handed too, but I use my mouse with my right hand and press w with my left. When typing I use both hands though the right kinda has more keys to do than the left. Lolol
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
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!
I like how you worded it - "many moons ago".
Me, an ambidextrous person: *What has I been doing this whole time?*
You are spec'd to have a backup in case something happens
@@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.
@@MikaePark-6 that's a pretty handy way of putting it, you know. righty, lefty, ambi.
Me : *laughs in right handedness*
Its interesting how nobody in this reply section corrected his grammar mistake:
*have
I love how "preform heart surgery" was said like it's an everyday task for everyone
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
I know! I hate when teachers say that!
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.
Or you can just use your brain and take it out of the binder….
Or hole punch the other side and watch them all squirm
@@folklore_of_beth so you are gonna carry a bunch of loose papers everywhere
Me with no hands: *”I truly am optimized”*
Ah yes
Ah yes
Hold up, how did you type without hands
@@OjamaBestDeck psychic powers
@@OjamaBestDeck "Hold up, how did you t̶y̶p̶e̶ wipe without hands" 😋
"There's something I want to tell you."
"What?"
"I'm not left handed either."
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
@@DemonClo lore?!??! Ima call the theory man to figure this out!
@@DemonClo Inconceivable!
@@DemonClo popcorn popcorn , who wants some popcorn only for $5 today
@@DemonClo LMAO THIS IS SO RANDOM I LOVE IT!?!?!
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.
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
This only works for reduced instruction set computing though
For some reason my hands literally just swap roles when the other one gets tired of theirs
:o
thats so cool!
@@cryptidinthewoods7262 wait isnt it normal or something?
@@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
I do that a lot too
I've been practicing *a lot* of drums in the past 18 months, focusing *a lot* on my weak left side. Over time, my perception of my left has changed significantly, like it's more of its own entity, an entity I can control with precise intent, than just that side that is not that skilled enough to do things. As a matter of fact, my left went beyond my right in some aspects and I unconsciously lead things with the left, which I never would've done before, for simple lack of ability. The body - the brain specifically - is one mind bogglingly versatile and adaptable bio machine.
So it must be better to have two weak hands right! I must be a legend!
0:50 Kate T-posing to assert dominance
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.
I'm right handed only for the things that were thought to me as a child. Writing and archery for example. But I'm able to use my left for other things I learnt on my own throughout the years, like playing games, spinning pens and batting in cricket. I play football and my left leg is actually better than my right but tougher to use and control but that's just because of experience. Sometimes I wonder if I was a lefty who was raised as a right handed or if I'm ambidextrous but was raised as a right hander.
*Ambidextrous people:* We have no such thing as weak hands
I used to be ambidextrous. But they made me unlearn it when I was a kid.
@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.
Me, an ambidextrous: P a t h e t i c
Hello random verified person.
me, an ambisinistrous: extra pathetic
ayy you're the guy who made the discord song :D
congratulations you are inefficient
Le checkmark.
Playing the guitar is an interesting one - which requires more skill, the frets or the strum? 🤔
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
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.
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!
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 😂
@@Ruslan-S Just Hendrix it and see if you're any better that way.
The thing about off-handed skill is so valid, though. I have so many things where I'm good with my left hand, but if my right tried it I'd immediately fuck up, whether that's because it's a two handed task where both hands are confusing me or because I just haven't practiced as much with my right as my left. Like throwing a frisbee, where my best throw is with my right...when I'm throwing backhand. Forehand, I'm actually notably better with my left because I spent so much time on forehand with my right that it's just not very good at forehand any more.
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Be kind to others, because kindness is contagious
Say that to the Swedes.
Yes but a good type of contagious
They always say "kill them with kindness", but all I got is this rusty old saw.
I like being ambidextrous. I paint for a living and I can paint with both hands. Comes in handy in tight quarters.
I'm right-handed and i can do that fairly well too, though there's a limit
It's great to have a strong amd weak hand.
When I make personal signatures I use my weaker hand that creates what seems to be random scribbles on a page, this is so that nobody will be able to recognise whenever I use my dominate, stronger hand to forge signatures.
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.
somebody is gonna punt you to the next dumpster
Thand you
U were being impawsible
U did the *right* thing when u *left* writting it
If you could just put your finger on it. Give this person a hand! Stay palm.
What's real weird is cross-dominance. When one eye is stronger but the other hand is. You end up with different tasks preferring different sides when most people prefer the same. For instance, I'm slightly less awful at batting "left handed" despite being right handed, because I'm left-eyed.
Question: Being left-handed or right-handed is something each person is born already decided and cannot switch, or is it something that we simply learn? We as kids decided to start writing with one hand and after doing it a bunch of times we became good at it, and since we didn't train the other it isn't good. Is that it? In case this is it, why are 90% of people right-handed?
the right hand as mentioned in the video is controlled by the left side of your brain. This side of your brain is also the side that handles language. So a couple thousand years and communicating through writing becoming more and more common, in addition to many cultures meeting out lefties (catholics found left-handedness a 'sign of the devil' and forced lefties to write right handed), your genetically predisposed to picking your right hand. Now that's not 100% guaranteed, I'm a lefty I'm proof of that. But this is the current theory.
I suspect it’s at least partly genetic. My father is very strongly right-dominant, my mother is left-dominant but not nearly as strongly, and I’m about as right-dominant as my mother is left-dominant.
In my family, when new kid is born, at age about 2-4 we observe and figure out are they righty or lefty, since both are genetically present. I saw it with my sister. When she was small, she tried both if her hands for tasks like holding a spoon, but she became a definite righty. I think she figured it while starting to draw, but if im not mistaking, she handed and reached for things with right hand often from small age.
But also, my gran is a lefty who was taught to be a righty as a child. I gotta look, how dies she operate
This may be far from being a scientific-based answer for your question of why are most people right-handed, but i think that the disadvantages left-handed people face can play a role on it. For example, think of a chair with a table attached on its right side: left-handed people will have a hard time writing comfortably on it. It could be a reason why many left-handed people would be forced to do everything with their right hand early on, making them used to it in the future. In my case, i was "born left-handed". Both of my parents were right-handed. They told me that when i first started drawing, writing and cutting paper, i would always use my left hand. My mom later realised how disadvantaged i could be in the future because of this and quickly started to teach and encourage me to use my right hand from a very young age (probably 3/4). The result? I am now a "converted" right-handed woman and i would certainly do a terrible job if i try to write my name with my left hand. Also this may not be a common case, but it definitely proves that right/left-handedness is something we can possibly learn, but of course this would be easier when done at a young age
Those right handed desks are terrible. As a lefty I had to use those a few times at school. I had to put my notebook in my lap to take notes because the right-sided desktop was tiny and didn't extend to the left side.
Playing guitar has always been interesting for me in this regard, because generally you need much more dexterity in your weak hand to play chords and riffs.
While talking about Ambidexterity , I'd love to see some explanation on cross-dominance or mixed-handedness as well.. I fall under that category.
Cross dominance is my favourite type of roleplay
Her: "Using only one of the hand is more efficient."
Leonardo da Vinci: *"Are you sure about that?"*
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.
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
The “supporting role” aspect of this is the interesting part. For instance, I kick balls with my right foot, this means that I am much more stable on my left foot as my left always has the task of supporting my body and keeping my balance. If I had to choose a leg to loose it would be my right. Even though I consider my right leg my dominant leg, I’m significantly more confident being on one foot when it’s my left.
Why tf do you kick balls what have those men done to you
Shower thoughts:
I wonder why one hand can do everything and the other hand be like: "You know what? I can't hold a darn pencil."
I have never had such weakness for my mind was not weak. It held within the strength to use both my hands at equal proficiencies. I pity your weak mind and your weak hand forever a slave to its oppressively "dominant hand" for my hands are partners. Equal in strength and opportunity.
@@a-drewg1716 i miss that power.
i had a multiple point fracture + hammer finger combo wrecking the grip on my lefty. Now i have to get my righty all inky like the rest of lowly beings 😂
I would've thought that having a preferable hand would have eliminated indecisiveness and shortened decision making as you would have to think about the other hand less when making life or death decisions.
It kind of does, ambidextrous people sometimes take longer to pick a hand to catch themselves when they fall iirc
What i gathered from the video is that it takes time to develop the same skills in both sides. So it boils down to practice more than anything. If you practice using both hands you may not struggle so much with that decision making. It's not like you start off good at writing as a child regardless of dominant hands
Weak or not, I'm grateful to have the use of both hands.
I gotta hand it to you, this was a very interesting video.
The way I discovered this notion myself was interesting, it was working as a server. I would hold trays, often heavy ones, with my left hand while my right manipulated whatever was on it. Even though I'm right handed (except for eating in which case I'm left handed with fork and spoon for some reason?) I can't hold a tray steady with my right. My right is more dynamic and my left more static.
The same goes for me, I am left-handed and I do everything with my dominant hand except some things. For example I simply can’t control the computer mouse with my left hand, and since my childhood I just took the mouse with my right hand, even nobody told mento do so. I also hold my phone with my right hand most of the time, sometimes I switch hands, but I can’t hold the phone with my left hand longer than 15 minutes or so
Ambidextrous people: *50’s stock laughters*
if the only process required to build strength in your non-dominant hand is the loss of energy, than I believe that any person who has that extra energy should do.
Exactly what I was thinking. And as long as you dont overwork yourself and you give yourself time to sleep at night, losing energy isnt the worst thing in the world
@@Moonlit.forest exactly. Especially in a first-world country where over 60% of someone's week is free time. A lot of people have even more time than that as well.
Me: "doc, i am scared "
Doctor: "no need to fear , minute earth doodles with hand doesnt exist, they cant hurt you"
*Minute earth doodles with hands*
Wait, other animals have dominant hands?!
Yep
Yeah, though most of them (but not all, as shown in this video) have a more or less 50/50 split on which side is preferred across the species
Cats are typically southpaws.
yea, for example cats move first with their dominant "paw"
Yes. And you may have never noticed it, but similar to animals with dominant legs or other limbs, humans also have a dominant leg / foot and eye. It would be the eye you might use more when squinting at something that's hard to see or the leg you start walking with first or use to reach an object or kick a ball.
In my case, my dominant hand, leg and eye are all on my right side. I don't know how commonly each side is favored in those other body parts though.
I am ambidextrous and have been since I was a little kid. But I found it confusing and time consuming having to decide which hand to use before starting any task. Kid me already had problems making decisions in the moment without having to think them over for a month or so and I would spend like 5 minutes switching hands deciding which one to write with. So early on I would decide what task I would use each hand for and just got into habit of doing it that way. For example I always write with my right hand now because that's just how I trained myself since in school I saw teachers reprimanding students who were left-handed and thought oh okay so right hand is for writing (although there was a time my right wrist was broken and I used my left instead but that was the exception). However after full day of classes as a kid my right hand would hurt from writing so when I got home I would always draw with my left. So now my right hand is for writing and left hand is for drawing. It came a little bit to use when in my most boring high school classes I could doodle with my left hand while writing down notes with my right at the same time. And I just divided all tasks like this besides ones that I do often and need to give my hands a break for. So using a mouse I sometimes go left-handed if arthritis starts killing my right hand. Using my smartphone one-handed I could do both hands depending on where I am and which hand makes more sense to use. But not for eating food. Depending on utensil I would use a different hand: chopsticks in the right, forks in the left, spoons in both, knives in the right, sporks in the left. You kinda just pick a hand and stick with it. Honestly I don't know if it matters which hand is your dominant. Or at least if it does, it probably isn't a huge difference. With practice and training you can get good at anything. The only thing is for left-handed people they often get discriminated against so I am kinda glad I can pass for a right-handed person. I would have hated for my teachers to have forced me to use a hand I was uncomfortable with when I was a kid. My sister was left-handed when she was little and they basically forced her into learning how to use her right hand. Now she uses her right hand for most things and would count herself as right-handed, but is that okay? And when in my class in elementary school (in Russia) the teacher would literary give a student who was left-handed a failing grade everyday when he didn't try using his right hand, I always felt that it was a crappy thing to do.
I'm a lefty and am glad I didn't know about teachers forcing leftys to be right handed until I was a teenager. I have learned to do many tasks right handed just because the tools used are for rightys.
Please decide which of your hands indents paragraphs. Your story is genuinely interesting but very difficult to read. 😅
Мда, как-то неадекватно у вас учителя поступали с левшами... Интересная история с выбором ведущей руки для конкретного занятия ‐- если бы я увидел кого-то в классе одновременно пишущего одной рукой и рисующего другой, этот человек официально стал бы для меня самым крутым в школе :D
@@thekingoffailure9967 Yep. A problem I seem to run into a lot when writing. 😂
My dad is ambidextrous and grew up with the teacher slapping his left hand with a ruler any time he started to write with it. To this day he usually approaches writing with his right hand while most other tasks he uses his left. Sometimes I ask him to switch on the spot and he can continue doing whatever he's doing like he didn't switch, though his left hand writing isn't quite as good as his right, it's still very good. It's unfortunate he had to experience that, hopefully teachers are more understanding these days and embrace ambidextrous students instead of treating them so poorly.
I find this video as scientificly unconvincing.
I grew bored one day and taught my left hand how to start writing. It’s getting better
Same here, except it's my right that took the training.
Ambidextrous people did not find this motivational. 🙁
Also I just realized emoji are right hand dominant! 🤔🤭🤫🥱
The best emoji is a Leftie: 🤦
@@janmelantu7490 I didn't look past the face emoji. ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
When I'm using my hands, they always like "dude, I'm the one doing hard job for so long, switch with me" and the other like "nah man, my job is harder, let's switch". In the end, they have to switch back and forth cause it all hard work
Because having flaws makes you relatable and perfect characters tend to be easily forgotten by readers. Hope this helps.
So pretty much for efficiency and the fact that our left hands can play a supporting role for our right hands, like stabilization
I gotta hand it to you; you deserve a high five for this video. It really gave me a grasp on the concept
The jokes are getting out of hand
i’m actually amazed by this video. the whole time i was like “whaaa?” “wooow😲”
I now feel bad for being ambidextrous.
I write with my right hand because I was taught to write with that hand since I was young but my left side of my body is much more dominant.
I’ve heard many stories like this. My grandpa grew up in USSR and when I asked him what was his dominant hand, he told me that he used to be left-handed, but the schools made kids write with their right hand, by tying the left hand behind their backs or hitting it with a ruler every time a student used it. Nowadays my grandpa doesn’t really write, but when he does be uses his right hand. That probably has some other reasons as he is an old man who suffered from a stroke and has other health problems as well, so yeah. And I think this story says more about the Soviet Union that it does about dominant hands
1:50 love how they literally highlighted the nose of that fish as a "preferred limb"
My right arm: can Carry an Entire boulder
My left arm: Breaks when trying to carry A piece of paper
... take your left hand out on a hot date more often.
@@becausereasons8507 what? Im 11
@@gaychainsaw646 He ain't wrong
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.