I write left-handed and here are my observations. My first grade teacher told everyone in the classroom the following: "Right-handed children, place the paper under your right arm and left-handed children, place the paper under your left arm." This advice makes sense from a symmetrical perspective. The problem is with an instruction for cursive writing which is that the letters should all slant slightly to the right. This isn't actually a rule, but a side-effect of writing with the right hand. Right-handed people use their wrist slightly to move the pencil up and down. If left-handed people were to use the exact same mechanical motion with the paper under their left arm, then their letters would all be slanted to the left, which for some left-handed people they are. Some left-handed people use the finger push/pull strategy to slant their letters to the right so there is no wrist movement involved. As a child, apparently I was more concerned with slanting my letters to the right, so I turned my paper to the same position as right-handed children which allows my wrist motion to work exactly as a right-handed person's. This left-handed writing style causes me to write on the paper coming in from the top of the paper and also causes me to smudge previously written letters and stain the underside of my hand which has never actually been a problem. This left-handed writing style is not the same as the hook style because of the orientation of the paper. My hand isn't hooked. My hand is relaxed, and when I write, I use my wrist to move the pencil just like a right-handed person does. I'm a software engineer now so none of this really matters anymore since everything I write is done using a keyboard.
Well said: Me too. I'm 58( embedded sw/hw eng) and had these issues all along. I smear and and find starting at the left side of a note book uncomfortable. I often take notes in columns starting on the right side and new columns added toward the left open area. Weird.
You are so wrong! Why do people think because you're left handed you are an odd ball? I am left handed and hold my pen in a normal position. I have been told my handwriting is excellent....
This was very helpful. I went to a catholic school that taught the left hand of evil and right hand of righteousness. Being left handed they forced me to write right handed. So now I wish to learn my roots. Learning how to write again in the left hand is a start.
I write with my left hand, but those positions are so awkward for me that it feels and looks like i am writing with my feet. Using that way everything is diagonal and one could confuse my letters easily with a mix between ancient Egyptian and Sumerian. I actually slant my paper the other way to see, but smudge it but feels more natural to me and I write best when standing instead of sitting, now smudges aside then it's a piece of art, perhaps it's too late for me
Christoforos Paphitis I haven’t tried this method, but try learning to write with the grip, then start adapting the position, remember this is al about muscle memory 😌👌
When I was in kindergarten I used to write with my right hand and it looked like a fetus learned how to write. My teacher told me to write with my left hand and it felt really natural. My handwriting got a huge boost, and I wrote faster. Edit: spelling
When I was in kindergarten I used to write with my left hand, and it looked like a fetus learned how to write. My teacher told me to write with my right hand and it felt really natural. My handwriting got a huge boost, and I wrote faster. Edit: eh
Sadly, me too. Idk what happened to my right hand, I just noticed that I could not use it for righting anymore, going into the long path of medical diagnosis now :( And, yes thanks alot for uploading this :)!
I was born left handed, but when I was younger, maybe 3, I remember I would always draw stickman and write my abc’s and just random words. My dad told me that “That’s the wrong hand to write with, you write with your right hand” or “You write with your right hand, not your left” something similar but yeah. My left hand writing is pretty decent it’s a little slanted and my b’s look weird, along with my 6’s but I’m practicing to become left handed again. I mean hey, it is my natural born hand 💜 any other long lost lefties? Know you’re out there somewhere 🧡🧡🧡
i remember when i didnt know how to write and so i decided to use my left hand cuz it felt comfortable, my grandma saw this and she basically ‘steered’ me off my preference in some way. My whole life I lived with my right hand being the dominant hand... tho nowadays I kinda feel something like it’s giving me the urge to just not want to use my right hand even tho it does everything perfectly, for some reason even if my left hand is kinda whack at doing stuff, I seem to just keep telling myself that my right hand isnt my real dominant hand and so every day since the last 2 months I’ve been trying to assimilate being left handed
I have a theory: anyone who tries to teach the tripod grip using a normal pencil to a left hander doesn't know what he or she is talking about. I have yet to hear someone make the following observation: how come right handers don't find much of a problem using the tripod grip? Answer: because the tripod grip fits well with the right hand writing mechanism. Howevet, it does not fit so well with the left hand writing mechanism, and that's why we have left handers doing all sorts of grips even if they were taught the tripod grip. Unfortunately, the grip technique she teaches here can only be used for show (writing for short periods, legibly). To write for long periods comfortably with the left hand, modifications to both the pen and the grip would be needed.
I'm not saying tripod grip doesn't work at all. I'm saying tripod doesn't work as well for left handers as for right handers, and that it gives some problems to left handers that seldomly happen to right handers. For example, the traditional tripod shown here often causes hand soreness to left handers but not often to right handers, and that is due to the difference in writing mechanism. Also, a discussion of the writing utensil is missing in this video, which is paramount for comfortable writing for left handers. If you are not convinced, just write with tripod on both hands, and I mean exactly the same grip with not even the slightest variation, and compare the feel of writing between the two.
i don't know why, but the way she talks makes me a bit aggressive. she talks so slow, as if being a lefty means that our brains are constantly on a narcoticum. i turn my paper, but personnally puting it in a 3 'o clock position and writing the lines towards the body is much more comfortable for me. ink doesn't smudge that way and it even works halfway comfortable on these weird university seats with attached table (of course to the right side, because they're like 2 out of 100 seats that are made for lefties).
My husband and I have 2 kids together and both kids are left handed. Since we are right handed it’s hard to teach them how to hold their pencil. I needed this! Thank you!
Slant the paper towards my left hand shoulder... SO THAT WAS MY PROBLEM!!! Thank you so much! There's very little content for left-handed people, and ironically I feel we need more help than our RH partners. Thanks for the video! 10/10! I'm re-educating myself on this because I want to write using fountain pens. Got lots of practice to do!
since when did someone say "i hate women", yeah that's what i thought no one did... no one here is sexist, they are saying why is she writing like that...
I'm a leftie and when I write in English (left to right) it looks horrendous and when I write in Arabic (right to left) it looks marvelous. Pens and pencils don't like to be pushed along paper, they liked to be pulled along paper like a paintbrush. Whatever grip you use for whatever language you write with whatever hand you write with needs to take this 'pulling effect' into account.
The pulling effect is lefties going right to left when crossing. When a rightie crosses their T we go left to right, and pull it into our bodies. Lefties tend to cross right to left, therfore pulling into their body. Same with letters like O. We tend to write it counterclockwise while lefties tend to write it clockwise. I didnt know this until I was looking how to teach a leftie how to write, and bought my child a left handed practice book. Her writing changed tremendously after she made those changes.
Thank you very very very very very very very much for providing this video ,it was the perfect perfect video for me and plus you have a very nice smile , and you seem to be a very kind lady
One reason I came here, is because my left hand was very bad, and I can not mirror image between hands, but with time, my left hand is functioning much better. Left hand is improving very quickly. At first I could not even use a left handed box cutter, now it is quite easy. Even though I was right handed much of my life, I've had trouble with the right hand. Right hand has been more than twice as fast as left hand, but now, I really love doing most things with left, box cutting, keyed locks, and now writing. I now hold with right hand, and place stuff on shelf with left hand. Have had head injuries when younger, yet I can type both handed, due to muscle memory, and learned on a manual typewriter.
I know it's the wright way...but for some reason when I hold the pencil the way said too...it just don't feel comfortable. It really makes my writing even worse when I try to write like that. Do you have any more pointers...because having suck bad penmanship is driving me insane I'm starting to hate being a leftie.
Holding it the "proper" way has never felt comfortable to me either, and I stubbornly learned to hold it in a much too firm grasp (which felt much more natural. The little rubber grips that are supposed to help never felt good either). It works, for a time, but the problem is that it can make my hand cramp after a while.. I think part of the problem is that our writing is made for right-handed 'pulling', not left-handed 'pushing', so we need to apply a different kind of force. That said, it's possible to develop beautiful penmanship as a lefty, but it'll likely take a little bit more effort. It will get easier the more you write (and we all write less, these days!). :) At least we don't live in a time where left-handedness was a sign of the devil, to be 'corrected' with punishment!
zachdesoto What you could do is rejoice in that we are going to increasingly depend on computers, where being left/right handed is not as much of an issue! There is probably nothing you can do except either learn to write right-handedly, or get used to the discomfort of the 'correct' way, or adjust somehow so it looks nice while doing it the 'wrong' way, or get everyone else to write using a new left-handed alphabet, from right to left. Either way you're looking at a lot of time/practice. Years. Patience.
I'm left-handed and I can write with the paper fully sideways as tho im writing towards myself. It always makes people look like 🤔 but my hand writing looks like crap so I'm here looking for ways to improve
Since third grade, when cursive was taught - back in the day when we still had cartridge pens that required a left-handed nib - I have written with my paper completely sideways. I started with it upside down as the teacher came down the rows of 35 students and turned everyone's paper the same way. In China and Japan I draw quite a crowd as it looks like I'm writing top to bottom (which I am, so far as observers are concerned). Same with using chopsticks in my left hand! My left-handed father and most other Southpaws I know use the awkward "hook" position. We lefties are something of a "tribe" and usually acknowledge each other in one way or another...
The hook strategy is used by left-handed people who don't orient the paper all the way to how a right-handed person's paper is oriented. I'm left-handed and I angle my paper all the way to how a right-handed person's paper is angled. My hand is not hooked, but relaxed and my letters are slanted to the right. I do get the smudges on the paper and stains on the underside of my hand however.
You should be able to write with a forward slant with your left hand using this technique. I can write both left and right with this method. You may want to try an exercise of just writing a number of e's and l's to get your hand used to writing to the right. All the best! Iris
I have to disagree ... I write with my hand above the line I'm writing on ...always done this and no one taught me this but it just feel natural for me as a lefty.
I'm a leftie and write in italics and I have lost marks on essays and test because of this but I can't change my handwriting it ends up hurting my wrist when I write with any other position to improve it any tips on stopping this??
Have exact same thing as you. Maybe ask if you can just type your essays I’ve tried to find a solution to the cramp thing, best thing you can do is to hold it loose but other than that idk. 😢🙏🏿
A left handed child will initially pick up a pencil and hold it in a mirror image of how the Mother or teacher is holding the pencil right handed. Then, the child is "corrected", to hold the pencil in that awkward hook. I think that curled, hook stance was taught to a left handed child to make the child look 'stupid' By the time I started school, Mother had taught me to read and write. I held the pencil in my left hand, just a mirror image of my Mother's right hand hold. I refused to make the curved hand "hook" that the teacher insisted on because I was left handed. So, the teacher made me sit on my left hand and learn to write right handed. Many of my left handed friends my age were not forced into the hook, so wrote normally. One left hander had the most beautiful cursive I ever saw. Thank you for this video. Maybe it will educate a few right wingers. (Yeah, it's a satirical pun, meant to be offensive. So don't flame me.) I notice that most of the comments claiming this won't work for left handers is from right handers.
It's So gross when you Finish your Exam and your Middle,Ring And Pinkey Finger Gets Stick with Ink And How tf people Didn't Notice you rite with your Left Hand , Even my father knew I was a lefty when i was lik 10-11 years old, This My Thought as a Lefty
I'm a right hander and I write with my right hand. But have writers cramp in my right hand. Two years back I learned to write with my left hand. My problem is while I'm writing with left hand it's paining and I'm righting very slowly. Please tell me what i do?
I have now learned to write with my right hand. It took several months of practice every day for about 20 minutes at a time and I am now getting pretty fluent and it’s beginning to feel natural. You just have to be persistent and disciplined. For me, writing left handed was just so awkward and impractical, it feels so much better as my hand moves across the page leaving the words and sentences behind and not smudging the ink and getting it all over my hand.
@@danmagoo lol don’t worry I will always write with my left as well, it’s what I resort to when I need to write notes quickly, especially after watching this video. 👍🏻
Don’t take me as hating this video, but I tried the pencil tutorial and it looks like I vomited the letters on the paper. Edit: Forgot to mention IM A LEFT HANDER!
My writing with my natural hand is inconsistent because I can't see the shape or size of the letter I previously wrote. When I use my right hand; despite not usually doing so, I actually have better handwriting, but I can't write as fast because my right hand doesn't have muscle-memory for the letters... Guess my only option is to build it up...
wtf your wrong, i'm a right handed person who *WANTS* to be left handed... some people disliked this because the woman on the video talks so slow and assumes we're in kindergarten...
I'm 58( embedded sw/hw eng) and had these issues all along. I smear and and find starting at the left side of a note book uncomfortable. I often take notes in columns starting on the right side and new columns added toward the left open area. Weird. For anti smearing I have worn thin cotton gloves with the fingers cut off.
Anisa Ally WHUT?! IT DID?! , Wait does that mean Im right handed adnd I can write with both hands..Because I can but since someone can write better like that...
I recommend experimenting with different grips. That's what I did. Look around your school or work for lefties and look at there grips. Try some the grip, see if any are good feeling.
Hey guys! My name is Niteesh. I do all my activities even eating with my left hand except writing. I was changed forcibly to right hand by my parents when I was very young. I now want to write with my left hand. Please provide me some suggestions. Thank you.
+Niteesh K R grab a piece of lined paper and practice writing whatever comes to your mind. the only way to regain the writing skill in your left hand is to practice.
If you can write with you right hand I recommend not trying to learn how to write with your left hand because nearly everything is made for right handed people
if i write slowly, i can't catch teacher's saying. if i write fast my handwriting become so ugly. after long period writing my hand always hurt sometimes my pen sucks. i wish writing rules was mirrored because i want to see how right handers solve their problem ahahah
I wish I could view this video before my english exam of 12 class , which was very lengthy and I left a more portion because of slow writing by left hand.
I write with a very heavy back-slant. It's the only way I can get any speed, other than mirror writing. I don't have a problem reading mirror writing, but that isn't the point, it's the other 90% who don't like it.
Leftie here. Nope, at least not the way she demonstrates. I use some sort of modified version of it where the middle finger is actually curved under the palm and I somehow end up holding the pen/pencil with only the thumb and forefinger. In addition, instead of leaving a huge gap between my fingers and the tip of the pencil, my fingers are very close to the tip, otherwise I fell like the pecil will go flying out of my hand.
Im right hand dominant but realized i can write lefty too. I can write cursive lefty but i automatically wana mirror what i write. I gotta concentrate to write normally. 😊
Thank you for the video! I'm right handed but learning to write with my left hand. My question is, should my elbow be resting on the table or elevated?
Alphaomarni Karnley Jarbie Writing but a couple stuff too like I play if I have to play guitar I feel more comfortable with my left hands strumming the strings
Hi, thanks for the video. Is there any way to write cursive that slants to the right when you hold the paper and pencil this way and you are left-handed? Mine slants to the left when I write using this technique. Thanks.
help nobody knows if im left handed or right handed but ive been taught left but i dont think im left handed but its never been confirmed by my doctors or anything
I cannot write like that comfortably. I always rest the pencil on my ring finger and my thumb wraps around and touches my ring finger and the paper is at whichever angle is most comfortable.
Helpful. I'm supposed to be left handed, but was taught right handed because in school I couldn't spell my surname, and the teacher helped by guiding my hand - and since she is right handed I learnt that way too. It's only logical to correct that mistake. Maybe I'll actually write neater!
This is how I learned to write with my left hand. Find your favorite pen/pencil grip (doesn't have to be tripod, mine isn't). And form letters ever day. You DONT need to go FAST. I recommend learning a lot of things with your left hand, like throwing a ball or eating. Look up the rest on wikihow, "how to write with left hand (if right-handed)"
I have done the pencil position since I was a kid, but I don't tilt the paper, it's just stupid, it just makes me unconfortable when writing, but is better when I am drawing
I'm right hand person, but unfortunately I broke my hand and fingers in bike incident and I can't write from right hand due to slab and next month I've my exams and I don't know what to do 😭.
nope, but i once simulated having a broken hand and ended up falling on a stone that pierced the flesh of my knee, leading to a big hole and the necessity of stitches and no running for weeks later. But I still have a scar and doing this to be ambidextrous:)
Bro I am left handed and salute such people who are left handed the reason is what 🤔? Reason is that most of the things are prepared for right handed people and it is hard for lefthanded people to do that work
I write left-handed and here are my observations. My first grade teacher told everyone in the classroom the following: "Right-handed children, place the paper under your right arm and left-handed children, place the paper under your left arm." This advice makes sense from a symmetrical perspective. The problem is with an instruction for cursive writing which is that the letters should all slant slightly to the right. This isn't actually a rule, but a side-effect of writing with the right hand. Right-handed people use their wrist slightly to move the pencil up and down. If left-handed people were to use the exact same mechanical motion with the paper under their left arm, then their letters would all be slanted to the left, which for some left-handed people they are. Some left-handed people use the finger push/pull strategy to slant their letters to the right so there is no wrist movement involved. As a child, apparently I was more concerned with slanting my letters to the right, so I turned my paper to the same position as right-handed children which allows my wrist motion to work exactly as a right-handed person's. This left-handed writing style causes me to write on the paper coming in from the top of the paper and also causes me to smudge previously written letters and stain the underside of my hand which has never actually been a problem. This left-handed writing style is not the same as the hook style because of the orientation of the paper. My hand isn't hooked. My hand is relaxed, and when I write, I use my wrist to move the pencil just like a right-handed person does. I'm a software engineer now so none of this really matters anymore since everything I write is done using a keyboard.
I tried the tutorial that the video showed for the pencil and it sucks. I’m a left hander, and using all my fingers makes it easier.
Well said: Me too. I'm 58( embedded sw/hw eng) and had these issues all along. I smear and and find starting at the left side of a note book uncomfortable. I often take notes in columns starting on the right side and new columns added toward the left open area. Weird.
You are so wrong! Why do people think because you're left handed you are an odd ball? I am left handed and hold my pen in a normal position. I have been told my handwriting is excellent....
This was very helpful. I went to a catholic school that taught the left hand of evil and right hand of righteousness. Being left handed they forced me to write right handed.
So now I wish to learn my roots. Learning how to write again in the left hand is a start.
that's the least evil part of catholicism
I am left handed and my teacher always says "hold your pen correctly" and I become like 😑
Bruh, the teacher told u that?!!Well, that's just stupid,it's just writing with your left hand.....
@@MikeyD22 i editeds rry
@@blackgouk7745 ppl who write with left hands have diffrent styles of holding the pen
This helped alot. I just need to practice writing my letters with my new hand position
My right-handed teacher in year 4 told me by smacking my left hand with a ruler. ☹
Wow! My handwriting improves because of her. Thank you 😊
4 minute video on how to write the exact same way you would with your right hand.
I think I summed this video up pretty well.
Except you forget, left-handed people can't write from right to left, which would make this demonstration work.
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I write with my left hand, but those positions are so awkward for me that it feels and looks like i am writing with my feet. Using that way everything is diagonal and one could confuse my letters easily with a mix between ancient Egyptian and Sumerian. I actually slant my paper the other way to see, but smudge it but feels more natural to me and I write best when standing instead of sitting, now smudges aside then it's a piece of art, perhaps it's too late for me
IKR its damn hard to switch to writing diagonally 😢😢
And my hand writing is still horrible
Christoforos Paphitis I haven’t tried this method, but try learning to write with the grip, then start adapting the position, remember this is al about muscle memory 😌👌
The story of my life, and I am 61.
most lefties do that!
When I was in kindergarten I used to write with my right hand and it looked like a fetus learned how to write. My teacher told me to write with my left hand and it felt really natural. My handwriting got a huge boost, and I wrote faster.
Edit: spelling
Well im the opposite
When I was in kindergarten I used to write with my left hand, and it looked like a fetus learned how to write. My teacher told me to write with my right hand and it felt really natural. My handwriting got a huge boost, and I wrote faster.
Edit: eh
Hey man! I'm just getting started with training my left hand due to injury. Thanks for uploading this stuff. It's useful!
ManBoyHood
Welcome to the smudge club. Sorry about the circumstances, though.
Sadly, me too. Idk what happened to my right hand, I just noticed that I could not use it for righting anymore, going into the long path of medical diagnosis now :( And, yes thanks alot for uploading this :)!
i just plain wasn’t taught how to (as a lefty)
Man?
I was born left handed, but when I was younger, maybe 3, I remember I would always draw stickman and write my abc’s and just random words. My dad told me that “That’s the wrong hand to write with, you write with your right hand” or “You write with your right hand, not your left” something similar but yeah. My left hand writing is pretty decent it’s a little slanted and my b’s look weird, along with my 6’s but I’m practicing to become left handed again. I mean hey, it is my natural born hand 💜 any other long lost lefties? Know you’re out there somewhere 🧡🧡🧡
Sameee
i 100% relate
i remember when i didnt know how to write and so i decided to use my left hand cuz it felt comfortable, my grandma saw this and she basically ‘steered’ me off my preference in some way. My whole life I lived with my right hand being the dominant hand... tho nowadays I kinda feel something like it’s giving me the urge to just not want to use my right hand even tho it does everything perfectly, for some reason even if my left hand is kinda whack at doing stuff, I seem to just keep telling myself that my right hand isnt my real dominant hand and so every day since the last 2 months I’ve been trying to assimilate being left handed
No one's born left or right handed.
You're dad is correct you should've used your right bruh
I have a theory: anyone who tries to teach the tripod grip using a normal pencil to a left hander doesn't know what he or she is talking about.
I have yet to hear someone make the following observation: how come right handers don't find much of a problem using the tripod grip? Answer: because the tripod grip fits well with the right hand writing mechanism. Howevet, it does not fit so well with the left hand writing mechanism, and that's why we have left handers doing all sorts of grips even if they were taught the tripod grip.
Unfortunately, the grip technique she teaches here can only be used for show (writing for short periods, legibly). To write for long periods comfortably with the left hand, modifications to both the pen and the grip would be needed.
Marvelous Whiskers I'm ambidextrous and can write left handed with the tripod grip just fine
Polar Bear also a friend at school is left handed and uses the tripod grip
Marvelous Whiskers also my left handed teachers write with the tripod grip
I'm not saying tripod grip doesn't work at all. I'm saying tripod doesn't work as well for left handers as for right handers, and that it gives some problems to left handers that seldomly happen to right handers. For example, the traditional tripod shown here often causes hand soreness to left handers but not often to right handers, and that is due to the difference in writing mechanism. Also, a discussion of the writing utensil is missing in this video, which is paramount for comfortable writing for left handers.
If you are not convinced, just write with tripod on both hands, and I mean exactly the same grip with not even the slightest variation, and compare the feel of writing between the two.
Marvelous Whiskers it doesn't differ when I do it
Gosh this would have been so helpful 50 years ago! But I can apply this now anyway.
like if youre left handed
Aqumarine Bae im ambidextrous
+MadMonkeyC same
same
i’m left handed AND i watch steven universe :$
I'm trying to get ambidextrous.😜😜😜😜😜😜✍✍✍
i don't know why, but the way she talks makes me a bit aggressive.
she talks so slow, as if being a lefty means that our brains are constantly on a narcoticum.
i turn my paper, but personnally puting it in a 3 'o clock position and writing the lines towards the body is much more comfortable for me.
ink doesn't smudge that way and it even works halfway comfortable on these weird university seats with attached table (of course to the right side, because they're like 2 out of 100 seats that are made for lefties).
She is American, they are stupid, just look at the elections right now
Mathilda ,do not get aggressive at that kind lady because I would get aggressive on you , so please don't talk anything fucking mean
Tom Huit why are you so salty
I put mine 2
it's cause she's reading
My husband and I have 2 kids together and both kids are left handed. Since we are right handed it’s hard to teach them how to hold their pencil. I needed this! Thank you!
Slant the paper towards my left hand shoulder... SO THAT WAS MY PROBLEM!!! Thank you so much! There's very little content for left-handed people, and ironically I feel we need more help than our RH partners. Thanks for the video! 10/10! I'm re-educating myself on this because I want to write using fountain pens. Got lots of practice to do!
WHO THE HECK WRITES HOLDING THE PAPER A INCH AND A HALF AWAY FROM THE PENCIL IT IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE
Pencil
BELA TUBE me XD
BELA TUBE me
Shes probably not even left handed. Her voice indicates a need to to make a sale for money and an audience for children.
since when did someone say "i hate women", yeah that's what i thought no one did... no one here is sexist, they are saying why is she writing like that...
I would've NEVER guessed that my index finger was flexible until I saw this VERY informational video.
o_O
My son is a left hander and this was so healpful!
I'm a leftie and when I write in English (left to right) it looks horrendous and when I write in Arabic (right to left) it looks marvelous. Pens and pencils don't like to be pushed along paper, they liked to be pulled along paper like a paintbrush. Whatever grip you use for whatever language you write with whatever hand you write with needs to take this 'pulling effect' into account.
The pulling effect is lefties going right to left when crossing. When a rightie crosses their T we go left to right, and pull it into our bodies. Lefties tend to cross right to left, therfore pulling into their body. Same with letters like O. We tend to write it counterclockwise while lefties tend to write it clockwise. I didnt know this until I was looking how to teach a leftie how to write, and bought my child a left handed practice book. Her writing changed tremendously after she made those changes.
Thank you very very very very very very very much for providing this video ,it was the perfect perfect video for me and plus you have a very nice smile , and you seem to be a very kind lady
Thank you, Iris. Very well spoken and concise instructional.
Amazing!! I'm watching it 9 years later
Me too
Me to😂😂
This video with closed eyes seems more like a Sleep Hypnosis than a handwriting practice. Snoozing off.
The ASMR is strong on this one.
One reason I came here, is because my left hand was very bad, and I can not mirror image between hands, but with time, my left hand is functioning much better. Left hand is improving very quickly. At first I could not even use a left handed box cutter, now it is quite easy. Even though I was right handed much of my life, I've had trouble with the right hand. Right hand has been more than twice as fast as left hand, but now, I really love doing most things with left, box cutting, keyed locks, and now writing. I now hold with right hand, and place stuff on shelf with left hand. Have had head injuries when younger, yet I can type both handed, due to muscle memory, and learned on a manual typewriter.
I'm lost in the Internet... again.
Blue Babe we are on the weird side of RUclips again xD
XD
@@AlabamaElevators shut up left handed, you are weird :c
@@valoaras9729 lel
Nope, I specially searched for it
I know it's the wright way...but for some reason when I hold the pencil the way said too...it just don't feel comfortable. It really makes my writing even worse when I try to write like that. Do you have any more pointers...because having suck bad penmanship is driving me insane I'm starting to hate being a leftie.
Holding it the "proper" way has never felt comfortable to me either, and I stubbornly learned to hold it in a much too firm grasp (which felt much more natural. The little rubber grips that are supposed to help never felt good either). It works, for a time, but the problem is that it can make my hand cramp after a while.. I think part of the problem is that our writing is made for right-handed 'pulling', not left-handed 'pushing', so we need to apply a different kind of force. That said, it's possible to develop beautiful penmanship as a lefty, but it'll likely take a little bit more effort. It will get easier the more you write (and we all write less, these days!). :) At least we don't live in a time where left-handedness was a sign of the devil, to be 'corrected' with punishment!
Woodward Leafling
Then what are you supposed to do? No matter how much I practice(which is a lot)it never seems to get any better?!
zachdesoto What you could do is rejoice in that we are going to increasingly depend on computers, where being left/right handed is not as much of an issue! There is probably nothing you can do except either learn to write right-handedly, or get used to the discomfort of the 'correct' way, or adjust somehow so it looks nice while doing it the 'wrong' way, or get everyone else to write using a new left-handed alphabet, from right to left. Either way you're looking at a lot of time/practice. Years. Patience.
longest 3 minutes and 52 seconds I've experienced, holy shit
Such a humble lady😚
Im 14 im done with holding my pen in a painful pisition while writing aaaaa
hurt my right arm and i have school in a couple days so I have to learn how to write with my left! this was very helpful thank you!
I'm left-handed and I can write with the paper fully sideways as tho im writing towards myself. It always makes people look like 🤔 but my hand writing looks like crap so I'm here looking for ways to improve
Since third grade, when cursive was taught - back in the day when we still had cartridge pens that required a left-handed nib - I have written with my paper completely sideways. I started with it upside down as the teacher came down the rows of 35 students and turned everyone's paper the same way. In China and Japan I draw quite a crowd as it looks like I'm writing top to bottom (which I am, so far as observers are concerned). Same with using chopsticks in my left hand! My left-handed father and most other Southpaws I know use the awkward "hook" position. We lefties are something of a "tribe" and usually acknowledge each other in one way or another...
The hook strategy is used by left-handed people who don't orient the paper all the way to how a right-handed person's paper is oriented. I'm left-handed and I angle my paper all the way to how a right-handed person's paper is angled. My hand is not hooked, but relaxed and my letters are slanted to the right. I do get the smudges on the paper and stains on the underside of my hand however.
I agree
You should be able to write with a forward slant with your left hand using this technique. I can write both left and right with this method. You may want to try an exercise of just writing a number of e's and l's to get your hand used to writing to the right. All the best! Iris
Me watching after 10 years in lockdown
I have to disagree ... I write with my hand above the line I'm writing on ...always done this and no one taught me this but it just feel natural for me as a lefty.
I'm a leftie and write in italics and I have lost marks on essays and test because of this but I can't change my handwriting it ends up hurting my wrist when I write with any other position to improve it any tips on stopping this??
Writing with pen is A NIGHTMARE
Have exact same thing as you. Maybe ask if you can just type your essays I’ve tried to find a solution to the cramp thing, best thing you can do is to hold it loose but other than that idk. 😢🙏🏿
I have the same problem as you.
Same I write in italics too💀
A left handed child will initially pick up a pencil and hold it in a mirror image of how the Mother or teacher is holding the pencil right handed. Then, the child is "corrected", to hold the pencil in that awkward hook.
I think that curled, hook stance was taught to a left handed child to make the child look 'stupid'
By the time I started school, Mother had taught me to read and write. I held the pencil in my left hand, just a mirror image of my Mother's right hand hold. I refused to make the curved hand "hook" that the teacher insisted on because I was left handed. So, the teacher made me sit on my left hand and learn to write right handed.
Many of my left handed friends my age were not forced into the hook, so wrote normally.
One left hander had the most beautiful cursive I ever saw.
Thank you for this video. Maybe it will educate a few right wingers. (Yeah, it's a satirical pun, meant to be offensive. So don't flame me.)
I notice that most of the comments claiming this won't work for left handers is from right handers.
It's So gross when you Finish your Exam and your Middle,Ring And Pinkey Finger Gets Stick with Ink And How tf people Didn't Notice you rite with your Left Hand , Even my father knew I was a lefty when i was lik 10-11 years old, This My Thought as a Lefty
Thank GOD it helped me.
I like how I'm 14 years old left handed and I had to watch this video
I'm a right hander and I write with my right hand. But have writers cramp in my right hand. Two years back I learned to write with my left hand. My problem is while I'm writing with left hand it's paining and I'm righting very slowly. Please tell me what i do?
I have now learned to write with my right hand. It took several months of practice every day for about 20 minutes at a time and I am now getting pretty fluent and it’s beginning to feel natural. You just have to be persistent and disciplined.
For me, writing left handed was just so awkward and impractical, it feels so much better as my hand moves across the page leaving the words and sentences behind and not smudging the ink and getting it all over my hand.
Oh no, you went over to the Dark Side! 😧
@@danmagoo lol don’t worry I will always write with my left as well, it’s what I resort to when I need to write notes quickly, especially after watching this video. 👍🏻
This was a very helpful video. Thank you.
Quick tip: Change the playback speed to 1.25× if you wanna save time.
Your welcome!
Don’t take me as hating this video, but I tried the pencil tutorial and it looks like I vomited the letters on the paper.
Edit: Forgot to mention IM A LEFT HANDER!
My writing with my natural hand is inconsistent because I can't see the shape or size of the letter I previously wrote. When I use my right hand; despite not usually doing so, I actually have better handwriting, but I can't write as fast because my right hand doesn't have muscle-memory for the letters...
Guess my only option is to build it up...
try to keep your left hand below the line, so you can see what youve wriiten
*raises eyebrow* Ain't no lefty got time for that!
I bet the people who disliked this are right handed, But I am a lefty and it hurts when I change how I write
SAVAGE PRANKS So TRUE
wtf your wrong, i'm a right handed person who *WANTS* to be left handed... some people disliked this because the woman on the video talks so slow and assumes we're in kindergarten...
I See You. Same!
SAVAGE PRANKS NOT TRUE. I came here to learn how to become a left handed!
Gramar sameee
when you realized that this is upload at april fools
I am a natural ambidextrous 💀💀💀, every teachers nightmare
Thank you. That was very helpful.
Thank you for making such a nice video
I'm 58( embedded sw/hw eng) and had these issues all along. I smear and and find starting at the left side of a note book uncomfortable. I often take notes in columns starting on the right side and new columns added toward the left open area. Weird. For anti smearing I have worn thin cotton gloves with the fingers cut off.
What type of pencil do you recommend if your first staring to learn how to learn with your left ??
im left handed but i was forced to write with my right hand so im stuck with right hand but trying to use my left hand again
I can write with my right and left hand ✌🏻
@@shalychacko3741 yasss I'm not the only person
I hold a pencil left handed and with all my fingers. Makes no sense. I know. Gotta get rid of it
Lol I'm right handed and I tried that with my left hand and it improved my writing so much!!! Thnx!!
Anisa Ally
WHUT?! IT DID?!
, Wait does that mean Im right handed adnd I can write with both hands..Because I can but since someone can write better like that...
Woah :O I mean, I also use my middle finger too but, omg
I recommend experimenting with different grips. That's what I did. Look around your school or work for lefties and look at there grips. Try some the grip, see if any are good feeling.
Scibbie / ǝıqqıɔS my friend at school does that
She don't deserve any hate or dislike please remove that dislike button from this videi
I'm 17years old and I'm watching this video lol. I'm watching this because when I'm writing my middle finger hurts
Hey guys! My name is Niteesh. I do all my activities even eating with my left hand except writing. I was changed forcibly to right hand by my parents when I was very young. I now want to write with my left hand. Please provide me some suggestions.
Thank you.
+Niteesh K R grab a piece of lined paper and practice writing whatever comes to your mind. the only way to regain the writing skill in your left hand is to practice.
If you can write with you right hand I recommend not trying to learn how to write with your left hand because nearly everything is made for right handed people
Turn the paper to the left or the opposite side of the right handed paper
if i write slowly, i can't catch teacher's saying. if i write fast my handwriting become so ugly. after long period writing my hand always hurt sometimes my pen sucks. i wish writing rules was mirrored because i want to see how right handers solve their problem ahahah
I wish I could view this video before my english exam of 12 class , which was very lengthy and I left a more portion because of slow writing by left hand.
I write with a very heavy back-slant. It's the only way I can get any speed, other than mirror writing. I don't have a problem reading mirror writing, but that isn't the point, it's the other 90% who don't like it.
I can't write using a tripod grip because it hurts my hand. Do any left handed people actually use the tripod grip?
Leftie here. Nope, at least not the way she demonstrates. I use some sort of modified version of it where the middle finger is actually curved under the palm and I somehow end up holding the pen/pencil with only the thumb and forefinger. In addition, instead of leaving a huge gap between my fingers and the tip of the pencil, my fingers are very close to the tip, otherwise I fell like the pecil will go flying out of my hand.
Im right hand dominant but realized i can write lefty too. I can write cursive lefty but i automatically wana mirror what i write. I gotta concentrate to write normally. 😊
Thank you for the video! I'm right handed but learning to write with my left hand. My question is, should my elbow be resting on the table or elevated?
I write my left hand but the one you useing it hard i use dfen tip of hand
I'm ambidextrous, I'm watching this b/c I wanna see how to write with my left hand without smearing it or stuff like that
Dude I'm Ambidextrous to !
Haha that's exactly why I am
Are you ambidextrous in writing or everything?
Alphaomarni Karnley Jarbie Writing but a couple stuff too like I play if I have to play guitar I feel more comfortable with my left hands strumming the strings
Me too 😄 it helps
Thanks a lot for the video ma´am ..Am feeling easy practicing left hand writing
Hi, thanks for the video. Is there any way to write cursive that slants to the right when you hold the paper and pencil this way and you are left-handed? Mine slants to the left when I write using this technique. Thanks.
Actually I'm a Indian but I like your tips mam thank you so much now tell me who are watching this video in 2021 3rd January please like the comment.
help nobody knows if im left handed or right handed but ive been taught left but i dont think im left handed but its never been confirmed by my doctors or anything
I cannot write like that comfortably. I always rest the pencil on my ring finger and my thumb wraps around and touches my ring finger and the paper is at whichever angle is most comfortable.
omg same!
You learned it or are you naturally ? :)
im . Righty but im learning left is that good?
am i the only right handed person who suddenly got motivated to write in left hand ?
That is smart and when i go to school when I wake up in using this technique
Who are watching this video in 2020 1 January 3rd
thank you my writing improved
You could plainly see she was a righty, she wore a watch on her left wrist which most lefties don't do.
Thanks Iris!
Wish I seen this throughout my school years
I’m right handed but I want to practice with my land hand so thanks
I’ve had a lot of people ask If I’m left handed because of how I write and no i wasn’t ever taught to write left handed but I can.
Helpful. I'm supposed to be left handed, but was taught right handed because in school I couldn't spell my surname, and the teacher helped by guiding my hand - and since she is right handed I learnt that way too. It's only logical to correct that mistake. Maybe I'll actually write neater!
I use my right hand,but my right hand is broken and i don't know how to write in my left hand.
HELP ME PLEASE!!
This is how I learned to write with my left hand. Find your favorite pen/pencil grip (doesn't have to be tripod, mine isn't). And form letters ever day. You DONT need to go FAST. I recommend learning a lot of things with your left hand, like throwing a ball or eating. Look up the rest on wikihow, "how to write with left hand (if right-handed)"
I have done the pencil position since I was a kid, but I don't tilt the paper, it's just stupid, it just makes me unconfortable when writing, but is better when I am drawing
Thank you from somalia
I'm right hand person, but unfortunately I broke my hand and fingers in bike incident and I can't write from right hand due to slab and next month I've my exams and I don't know what to do 😭.
Great vídeo thanks
I tried this just how she said it but the pencil keeps slipping out of my hand
I'm a right handed so I am trying to learn how to write with your left hand if you're a right handed
Getting good results at left handing? I'm trying to write w/ left hand in about 4 months and it's been quite hard... ^^'
Thanks it helps god bless u
My writing became illegible after rotating the paper like shown on the video, however I noticed that the hand doesn't go over the ink anymore.
very thankful mam🎉💯💯
nope, but i once simulated having a broken hand and ended up falling on a stone that pierced the flesh of my knee, leading to a big hole and the necessity of stitches and no running for weeks later. But I still have a scar and doing this to be ambidextrous:)
Has anyone noticed that the date of this video being made is April fools day?
Bro I am left handed and salute such people who are left handed the reason is what 🤔? Reason is that most of the things are prepared for right handed people and it is hard for lefthanded people to do that work
well, for wanting to learn how to write left handed; this should do it. Thx