DISQUS

rush · 10 months ago

both of my parents are right-handed but me and all 3 of my siblings are left-handed. we beat the odds to be awesome

Capt Left · 10 months ago

both of my folks are righties, yet both my sister and i are lefties as well. strange stuff. but, there is a trend of lefties on my mother's side.

Dill · 10 months ago

both of my parents are right handed. 2%. Wow.

PeteY · 10 months ago

I'm a native left-hander and so is my older brother. I often write with both hands; It depends on what side the paper and pen is, if it's closer to my right then I write with my right. I often play darts by myself, left v's right. It's real fun and close competition. I could not tell you if I'm right or left footed.

My father was left -handed too but was forced to write right-handed by the weirdo Christians who schooled him. Now he's right-handed most of the time.

Paul · 10 months ago

I'm left-handed, but I tend to forget that I am until someone mentions it or I have to use something that's meant specifically for right-handed people. All of my family is right-handed except for my uncle.

However I do a lot of things right-handed, including throwing and playing guitar. I really developed a strong mix of both hands.

TSCB · 10 months ago

Im left-handed, but i fail to realize the importance of pointing it out. let alone writing a list of why its so gosh darned awesome be be left handed... this is just one of the failed conversational implications of bi-lateral-symitry in the human species.

IVAX · 10 months ago

I also beat the odds men, my parents, my grandparents, uncles and cousins, except from one nephew are left handed but I AM THE BLACK LEFT HANDED SHEEP !
OMFG I AM AWESOME !

Worldbeing · 10 months ago

Few things...
As well as the four US Presidents you mention, John McCain is also a lefty.

The statistics about inheritance chances sound a bit dodgy to me. I was always taught it was a simple dominant/recessive allele thing, but it's a bit more complex in truth. if it *was*, then it would be extremely rare for the child of two left handers to have a non-lefty kid, and depending on the parents' genes, between 0 and 25% chance of two righties having a lefty child (RR+RR->0%, RL+RR->0%, RR+RL->0%, RL+RL->25%), which I guess averages out at about 2%.
However, given that me, my cousin, and my girlfriend (not related!) are all left-handed children of right-handed people, as are half the commenters here... that statistic sounds like it may be a bit out. (at least among people who comment of this sort of thing on the internet)

The other statistic I'm interested in there is Mensa membership... is that for international Mensa, British, or US Mensa? Also, given that only a small percentage of those eligible to do so actually join Mensa, the fact that 20% of its members are lefties isn't terribly statistically significant...the percentage of people eligible to join Mensa who are left handed may be much higher or lower!
In fact, the qualification to join Mensa is merely being in the top 2% of the population by intelligence, so if you can understand everything I've said in this post, you might as well take the test...

Andrea · 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm left handed and so is my husband. 3 of our 4 children are *right* handed. Although one of thsoe sometimes uses her left because our computers are set up lefthanded.

Ben (a Lefty) · 10 months ago

"8. Twenty percent of all Mensa members are left-handed."

That means a whopping 80% are Righties! That's not a fact to be broadcasted on this site!

Worldbeing · 10 months ago

Broadcast, not 'broadcasted'.
And it's still considerably fewer righties than in the general (thick) population.

Christina · 10 months ago

I am a lefty, my older sister is a lefty, my little brother is a lefty, but my little sister, and my parents are righties. I don't think a lot of my other family are lefties, so I thinks it's pretty awesome I'm awesome. Also, I am in the advanced 8th grade (taking Algebra 2, Chemistry, and Pre-Physics, by the way), and about a third of my class are lefties. I feel pretty awesome right now.

PeteY · 10 months ago

Anyone notice the level of intelligent comments made by the majority left-handed commenters?
I've never seen such a concentration of bright social commentary in the one place before...

...Is this testimony to the author's point about left-handers having a tendency for higher levels of intelligence?

floydfan19 · 10 months ago

Both my parents are right handed and my brother and I along with an Uncle are the only lefties..so I guess it happens pretty often after reading the other comments

Sheaski22 · 10 months ago

I have been trying for years to be left-handed and still just can't do it. I think lefties are more creative and interesting people. Oh how I wish I were one of you.

Sami · 10 months ago

I started out as ambidextrous but was told to pick a hand for grading purposes in school, now I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else with my right. I was told in school my handwriting was unusual for a lefty being that it doesn't slant, I turn the paper, not my hand.

AD · 10 months ago

Really great stats about being lefthanded. (o:
I'm Right-handed but can write fairly legible in left too.
So, proud to be in that club! (:

Slartibartfast · 10 months ago

Me=lefty, My sister=lefty, Parents=righties
Looks like there's a lot of us here who beat the odds!

slightlymore · 10 months ago

My mum, her brother and her mum are lefties. Everyone else that I know about is a righty. Me and my brother are both lefties and my sister a righty. About the creative thing - I work in a design studio and 4 out of 10 of us are left handed. We buy left handed things (pencil sharpeners for example) and leave them around the office to confuse the righties!!

Helena is right-handed · 10 months ago

Who cares about which hand people use predominantly? People act as if their "handedness" is a status symbol, or something that makes them better than other people. What the hell?

Julianny · 10 months ago

Of course the righty had to leave a negative comment. Nobody ever said they were superior to anybody. We're just pointing out the awesomeness of being left-handed.
But anyways, I'm the only person in my family that is left-handed... well of the people alive. I may have inherited it from a great-grandparent. But I tend to be the liberal/rebel/more artistically inclined one. =]

MaXsiM · 10 months ago

Well Helena, you're right. Most right-handed people really don't care about us left-handed people. I also agree with you that right-handed make a big deal out of it: Who makes all the funny little jokes, who creates all the "right" stuff, who forces kids to learn writing with the "right" hand and give a fail grade afterwards because the kid got problems?

You grown up in a right-handed world and that makes you say "who cares"...It's not your fault, you just didn't need to think about it seriously.

Sorry if i sound too rough, it's not my intension to play the troll here ;-)

Oh, BTW, most of my friends (and my whole family) are right-handed and some of them are really intelligent... almost that intelligent like me ;-)

Worldbeing · 10 months ago

Helena...
I think a lot of left-handed people wear it as a badge of honour because we can. The world is biased towards right-handed people, and to a certain degree that's fair- they're the majority. But what it means is that left-handers have had to put up with intentional and unintentional discrimination for centuries- from being forced to write with the right hand, to the reams of linguistic association of the left with negativity (sinister, anyone?), to the modern day where everything from scissors to can-openers are made for right handed people. Minorities tend to take pride in themselves, whether they be racial, intellectual, or handed. Lefties are no exception to that.
Also, we've never said that left handed people are superior. In some regards, we have a natural advantage- a left-handed brain is statistically more likely to be creative, and intelligent. However, it's also more likely to produce someone who's mentally retarded. Left-handedness is just a genetic quirk, and we're as entitled to take pride in that as in anything.

To the lefties and lefty sympathisers who've commented: (:P)
I think it's wonderful to see so many people discussing this in a calm and intelligent manner. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons so many people have found it is because it's been stumbled in the 'Left-Handedness' category on StumbleUpon.

Mel · 10 months ago

Haha! I am a lefty, but can write fairly well backwards with my right. I throw with my right but as an artist, my precision lies to the south. Leonardo is my hero. Is anyone else left eye dominant?

Kiran · 10 months ago

I was actually surprised that I stumbled across this, and did not even use StumbleUpon! Being a lefty does not mean anyone is handicapped or disabled or inferior, its just something different. And most people choose to take pride in the little differences...

No one besides me in my family is a lefty. I'm not sure if its because my parents/grandparents/relatives were forced to write with their right hand or if I just picked it up as a habit. Regardless, as a child I was forced to write with my right hand and yet I still ended up left - dominant!

Donna · 10 months ago

Both my parents are righties. Out of their four kids, two of us are lefties. Sorry Helena, but lefties do get a lot of attention. All we have to do is put a pen in our hand, begin writing and perfect strangers will crack jokes or comment. Anyone who is left handed will agree with me on that. I noticed that familiar left-handed scrawl immediately the first time I saw Obama sign something. One thing that wasn't mentioned here is there are twice as many male lefties as there are female. Look at the list above -- not one female in the bunch! Anyone know any famous women lefties?

Christina · 10 months ago

I'm so proud to be left handed, only down fall is that George W. Bush is. But hey it balances out when you have Michelangelo, Leonardo DiVinci, Albert Eistein, Picasso, and President Barack Obama. :)

barney · 10 months ago

im very proud to be left-handed...

jakubzor · 10 months ago

lefties roxor

scroller · 10 months ago

Both of my parents are right-handed but I'm left-handed. So was our mailman.

Timmy · 10 months ago

Interesting little fact: In 1992, when we had three major candidates for the presidency in the US (instead of the normal two major candidates), we were virtually assured of having a lefty for president, no matter who won. George H. W. Bush (Republican), Bill Clinton (Democrat), and H. Ross Perot (Independent) were all lefties. That was a great year for left-handedness. :-)

handism · 10 months ago

It just such a shame that there is such a massive spelling error on a legendary rockstar. Jimi Hendrix, not Jimmy. /sigh

Jonthecomposer · 10 months ago

Hendrix was RIGHT HANDED. He simply PLAYED left handed. Look at pictures of him with a pen in his hand.

DrDarius · 10 months ago

Jimi was LEFT HANDED. He simply WROTE with his right.

Anon · 10 months ago

Actually if you write with your left but do most other stuff with your right you are left brained, not right brained like most left handers which makes the intelligence statistics not apply to you.

mark · 10 months ago

is it true that left handed (like me) have a shorter lifespan? i read that somewhere

Worldbeing · 10 months ago

It's a statistic I've heard before, but I'm not convinced.
Anyway, intelligent people have a longer life expectancy, so for most left-handers it should cancel out :P

Marcus · 10 months ago

Another long word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardesses.

kim · 10 months ago

Both of my parents are left handed. My brother and I both are left handed too.
Despite my mothers attempt to make us right handed.

Abarel · 10 months ago

Both my parents are left-handed and out of three children I'm the only lefty. Also the only male, I wonder what the statistic for left-handed male vs. left-handed females vs. the same for right-handed genders.

R.I.J-H · 10 months ago

my entire family is left handed barring one uncle, he regards us as 'caggy-handed', we have his cutlery placed back to front.

Anonymous · 10 months ago

It's amazing as it's only a 2% chance to be left handed with two righty parents, but both myself and one of my two siblings are lefties!

Simmons · 10 months ago

you can add my name to the list of future successful lefties.

Anonymous · 10 months ago

A Few Famous Females that are/were left handed:
Julia Roberts
Marylin Monroe
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Jessica Parker
Angelina Jolie
Emma Thompson
Natalie Cole
+ others...

Another Left handed President:
Ronald Reagan

I am a left handed female from two parents that tried to force me to be right handed. I tend to be right leg dominate in sports but use my left hand to throw.

Another cool fact - We have a day devoted to us. August 13th was deemed "International Left Hander's Day" with the first celebration taking place in 1976!

Mike · 10 months ago

Im Left handed but its not true they have a lower life span Paul mcartney was a leftie and the rest of his band were righties him and ringo are still alive. Lefties and righties are both the same.


LEFTIES RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

scadza · 10 months ago

I am lefty. But i doubt that there is any link between left-handedness and intelligence...
There are thousands of famous and genius out there..... if few of them are lefty
but the rest are righty......(>80%).
so where is the link.

Whitemeadow · 10 months ago

I'm a natural lefthanded female. My parents were right handed. The educational system at the time I was in elementary school had a policy: no left handed children accepted. If we were not able to change our handedness, we would be expelled. I'm very fortunate that my parents stood up to the school administration and demanded that I be allowed to remain. I did and suffered the consequences of three broken knuckles at the hand of my first grade teacher.

Thankfully this attitude seems to have abated over time. I'm very proud of my being lefthanded- given that approximately 9% of the total world population is lefthanded, and of that 9% only 4% are female. I think that makes me qualified to declare myself as an expert at adaptation in all facets of daily living!

George · 10 months ago

I write and draw (anything that requires detail) with my left. I saw, hit any, well, anything that requires power with my right.

What does that make me? I declare myself a leftie when asked and I don't think the term "ambidextrous" applies because I cant use both hands equally or write with my right!

pixel · 10 months ago

Oh and I'm a woman ;)

pixel · 10 months ago

I love being left-handed! Whoop whoop!

Grace · 10 months ago

Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers is left-handed

Grace · 10 months ago

And i'm left handed too!!!!! WOO HOO!!

Simon · 10 months ago

My dad is left handed, my mum is right handed, but i'm pretty sure i'm a bit of both! Naturally too. Some things like writing and some sport I use my right hand, but other things I (naturally) use my left, like using a computer mouse, playing guitar (though now I play right handed because my teacher is a righty and I thought it would be easier!) and other sport. A bit odd.

Sallie · 10 months ago

I wanted to suggest that many right handed parents who have had left handed children who come from the twentieth century may have been natural lefties, but were made to be right handed in school, thus changing their "handedness." So the percentage of 2% may actually be scientifically correct, although hard to back up statistically (at least currently). As the trend moves more toward acceptance of handedness, we may get more accurate empirical data.

BTW, I am extremely left handed (I always used to say that I could have my right side cut off, and I wouldn't miss it much!). I have a father and brother who are left handed, but both use their right hands for sports. My mother was right handed, but she was the most creative out of all of us (an artist by trade), although I would say the lefties of the family are quite intelligent!

jo · 10 months ago

both my parents a righties. Im a lefty. my siblings are Righties. I married a lefty and had a lefty daughter. got married again to a rightie and had 5 righty children. When I use a knife and fork i use knife in right hand. When i butter bread i put knife in left hand. i play tennis left handed. but golf and cricket right handed. Anything that requires both hands im a righty. Anything that uses one hand im a lefty. pretty bent hey!!!

Deez_Nuts · 10 months ago

Me and my pit bull are left handed.

Greg · 10 months ago

Rush, above, must be one of my siblings. My parents are both right handed and me and my 3 siblings are left handed. When I first started dating my wife, me and my siblings and their spouses were sitting down to dine. My wife, who is left handed said, "I need to sit on the end because I am left handed." Everyone looked at her in amusement. At a table of 8 people, there were only 2 right handed people. Everyone else was left handed.

vicot · 10 months ago

i'm a left-handed and i'm impressed. it's true?

Shiv · 10 months ago

At birth i was left handed. i write with it and i hold spoons and forks with it. but im mostly right side when it comes to the whole body. in soccer i kick with my right, basketball and football in right. and even in wrestling. i am a right foot lead but have a strong left base. and my parents were right handed.

Weal · 10 months ago

Both parents are righties. I'm a lefty, my brother is a righty. Go lefties!

Lefty-lou · 10 months ago

I'm a lefty and female :-) I am the oldest of 7, both parents are righty's as well as the sibs, all grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I am the only lefty!!!! Woooo! Go me :-) I am proud to be left handed and born on Friday the 13th at that ;-)

Travis · 10 months ago

Hmmm... another interesting one! I work in a car dealership and 4 out of 6 salesmen are lefties, but no one out of 6 office employees. The last dealership 11 out of 16 of us sales were lefties.

Wandrnrose · 10 months ago

I am a leftie, from a family of three siblings, of which just my brother was right handed in the whole family.
Left is awesome.

Bee · 10 months ago

Pretty cool list. btw... it's Leonardo Da Vinci, not Di Vinci.

Lone Lefty · 10 months ago

I am the only lefty on both sides of our families back three generations. Plus, and the best looking, smartest, and most humble one.

Fritz · 10 months ago

Lefties are more prone to suicide - 10% greater chance than righties.

Fritz · 10 months ago

If the left side of the brain control the right side of the body and the right side controls the left - then left handed people are the only ones in there right minds.

An honest chao · 10 months ago

I am left handed in fact I am a natural lefty in everything, goofy footed, south pawed etc.

However I fail to see why this is a reason to be proud. I can also mirror write, write inverted and write ambidextrously from both ends of the line simultaneously, if I concentrate, all of which are much rarer. Are these signs of boredom in youth to be celebrated?

Or is it the genetics? But then I also have grey eyes and can curl my tongue into a 5 pointed shape... and I am sure anyone can find a few genetic traits to put them in a minority club. Even a minority club with an increase in IQ standard deviation (SD) shouldn't be hard.

I have some technical issues with this article.

Being left handed does not mean you are likely to be smarter than an average person. The SD is increased not the mean this is a very common mistake. Incidentally the same is also true for guys over women. (A similar misunderstanding to this article by a newspaper, over the guy girl SD difference, cost a Stanford professor his job) An average lefty will be about as smart as an average righty. However both the stupidest and cleverest individuals in a crowd are slightly more likely to be male lefties.

All this is if you take IQ to be anything other than a pointless historical metric which is often wrong and very prone to test bias. I myself once got 195 in a mensa test putting me alongside great physicists, which is frankly (and sadly) ridiculous.

Also this point: "Left handed people who have higher I.Q.s tend to have an I.Q. of over 140." must be wrong. As any sample of a population should have a normal (bell) distribution. If the statement was quoted the source's sample was far too small.

Secondly the genetic odds quoted in the article aren't right. Or if they are right then lefties must procreate much much more than righties. Which I am pretty sure doesn't happen or people would really celebrate being left handed. I thought the numbers were of so I tested it in a simple monte carlo script and yip it's wrong.

Finally since when was a MAC something to be proud of. Have you ever used an old mac? Or are "us lefties" more prone to be taken in by expensive advertisements and style over substance? What hand was Linus Torvalds?

Jay at the foot of the cross · 10 months ago

I am from a large family and only 4 leftys including myself out of maby 40 or so. I will agree that there does seem to be a mental differance, however im not sure to what degree. As for the people who keep saying that the statistics doesnt sound impresive at 20% because that leaves the other 80% as right handed, lets think about the amount of leftys that make up the population and then how many of them are mentaly handicaped. then figure what % of the amount thats left are mentaly gifted or gifted in any other way I think that you will find a much stronger % then in rightys. Let me close by saying that the Lord God Almighty has made me left handed and for that I will use any gift that comes with it to honer God and to praise Jesus for all he does. Left handed or right handed we as people need to realize that God loves us all and if it were just YOU he still would have sent his only son to earth to die on the cross to ensure you a clean and safe passage to Heaven. When you get tired of fighting to live a life not worth living all you need to do is cry out to Jesus and tell him you need him then if you will inturn do your part to follow his teachings life will become a different thing for you all together but remember one day it WILL be to late.

MSB · 10 months ago

All my grandparents were right handed as were both my parents. Ii am left handed, left-footed but right eyed. The combination of left handed and right eyed makes my role in the army somewhat interesting. I have had to learn to do certain things right-handed as some of the specialised equipment that we use doesn't come in anything other than right handed!

shep · 9 months ago

both my parents are right handed my brother and i are both left handed ... go figure the math on that one

Scepticalman · 9 months ago

I really doubt that statistic about the two right handed parents...

john · 8 months ago

im a leftie too an dont get me wrong i luv it but i dont get the mensa comment where you sed 20% of them are lefthanded....that means 80 percent of them are right handed

corey · 8 months ago

Maybe we can all pitch in to buy an island for left handed people. I got $5 on it.

corey · 8 months ago

and to john, if only 5-15 % of the population is left handed that would mean that statistically speaking if you are born left handed you have better odds at being a genius than if you are born right handed. cheers

Doug · 7 months ago

I still subscribe to the "first-born" "more difficult childbirth" theory of left-handedness. (Incidentally, I fit into both categories and am left-handed, the only one of five children so inclined. Mother right-handed, Father a lefty who was forcibly converted to righty in school.)

kim · 7 months ago

thanks, this post is very interesting, I'm a lefty with both parents right-handed

Andrea · 7 months ago

Both of my parents were right handed as well, but I turned out to be a lefty! Though my twin brother is right handed. But we have speculated that he might have been left hand too if a certain accident hadn't happen when we were three. Very interesting read though! :)

Your Geneology Teacher · 7 months ago

Left handedness is a recessive gene, so a right handed person could carry the left handed gene and pass it on to their child. Because of this, it is very common for a left handed person to have two right handed parents. I would be very interested to meet someone that is right handed that is born to two left handed parents.

I hate my twin · 7 months ago

Im Left handed, my identical twin is right handed.

ralph · 7 months ago

im righty with two leftys for parents

LouieMcG · 7 months ago

Im pretty left handed. I mean, its nice to think we have intelligent conversation. Leftys have a tendency to love social commentary...but...man, If this was a RIGHT handers post (as if the bastards need them, members of the great unwashed as they are) I wouldn't be checking the spell check on this post so fervently. Cmaan we make each other nervous. Around right handed dudes I can spout off all kinds of stuff and it doesn't get analyzed or corrected. Still...it feels good to have this out there. Lets just band up and make THEM nervous. With words and stuff, i don't mean like, globalising a lefty armory for the 'protective lefty'. Im not an angry man wanting to 'take whats mine' I come from New Zealand. We are the planets left foot. Man, just come down here, its great.

Peter · 7 months ago

I am a lefty, but I'd prefer being right handed. When I tried writing with my right hand I noticed for the first time that the strokes are really logical and fluent. When writing with my left hand it doesn't feel so good.

Emma · 7 months ago

i love being a lefty! i hate smearing ink all over the damn page though.

skateboard bearings guy · 7 months ago

yeah emma, smearing my writing drives me nuts too.

i love how it lists the lefty presidents and makes a point of stating that george w. was a righty, hahaha.

paddy · 7 months ago

you people sicken me with your cult of theindividual, your left-handed...well done. who's " Jimmy Jimi Hendrix"?

Johann · 7 months ago

i am ambedextrous, buy i am actually left footed. i have complete use of my foot muscles, so i can do the same things with my feet as my hands.

Connor · 6 months ago

I probably would of been right handed, but when i was a little over a year old i had a stroke and was paralyzed on my right side for a couple of months. So i learned to use my left hand

<that way < · 6 months ago

Lefties make great lacrosse players :)
I'm going to play Division One in college soon <3

Shana · 6 months ago

Something that might solve the "why me and my siblings are left handed and my parents/relatives aren't" thing. A lot of kids back in the 60's (and probably before, I just know the 60's for sure because of my mom) were forced to be right handed. My mom was naturally a lefty, but the school system forced her to use her right hand. I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

Olde Timey Beard · 6 months ago

I was born Right handed and could write both backwards and forwards with my right hand. Then in the first grade I broke my right arm pretty badly, and had to have it rebroken because it was improperly set so I spent about a year in a cast. As a result I had to learn to use my left hand to write and eat. I'm still left handed in those regards, and later found out I was left eye Dominant, so i fire a gun left handed which is all natural. Last year I had surgery on my left arm and because there was the possibility I would lose the use of it for some time, I started practicing writing right handed. I can do it, but i soon discovered my right handed handwriting was that of a 1st grader. I don't know what that makes me, Righty, Lefty, Ambidextrous? My mom is a righty, my dad is a lefty and I'm a complete mishmosh!

Name · 5 months ago

Left handed people statistically die an average of 7 years sooner than right handed people. Sad day for me...

DVimmer · 5 months ago

Well someone was talking about alleles and genetics but it could be more than that. Doctors say that upon birth, the right side of the body is dominant. The side of the heart. And that the handedness and the individual is based on oxygen getting to the brain. So if there was some sort of complication with oxygen getting to the brain. So supply of oxygen getting cut to the left side of the brain makes the right side dominant.

SpdRcrChk · 5 months ago

People, remember that even though genetics plays a big part, the world is predominantly RIGHT-handed. This means that some people are practically forced to be right-handed, because that is the way they are taught. Additionally, in some cultures, you are literally forced to be right handed because left-handedness is considered taboo so to speak. In these cultures, people literally had their left hands tied behind their backs in order to force them to be right handed.

And yes, it is OK to advertise that 80% of MENSA members are right handed. You fail to realize that if 2% of the entire population is left-handed, holding a 20% membership claim to MENSA is actually notable!

Aqqisiaq · 4 months ago

I’m the only Lefty in the family.
I attended the Catholic St. Joseph School with all nun teachers. My best friend went to a public school where they forced him to use his right hand. St. Joseph priced the individual (it seemed) as I never thought of being a lefty. It wasn’t a subject there. I never realized I was “different” before I was moved to a public school in the 2. grade.

Writing: Left
Knife and fork: Ambidextrous
Spoon: Left
Pistol and rifle: Ambidextrous
Guitar: Right (didn’t think of the possibility to turn it around)
Scissors: Left
Computer mouse: Ambidextrous (by choice to avoid problems)

The shorter lifespan of lefties I believe were based on a study of baseball players and the hypotheses was that lefties were more prone to accidents because they live in a “right oriented” world – I don’t care if it’s true or not (for baseball player) – I expect to live long 

I’m practicing martial arts, and have found that lefties have an advantage in fights at least until the opponent finds out and compensate.

I work in a computer company as a programmer and 8 out of 10 are lefties. In my previous position as a computer administrator 4 out of 5 were lefties.

P.S. The Polar Bear is a lefty also. (Always hits with the left paw first – I’m an Eskimo, I know!)

SimonH · 4 months ago

Use my left hand on a right hand potato peeler. I stroke it away from the body instead of towards it. I have learned to use a lot of right hand tools with my left hand.
Many power tools can be quite a handful they are surely made for the righties.

Caitie · 4 months ago

My parents are both right handed, my twin brother is right handed, and I'm a lefty. What's that percentage?

mrpaige · 3 months ago

Both my parents are right handed. I ended up left handed and my brother is ambidextrous.

codymccormick · 3 months ago

I'm right hand dominant, but I envy you lefties, so I decided that I would start out by making myself ambidextrous, and now a few months later i do almost everything i used to do with my right hand with my left.

Eric in Sacramento · 3 months ago

I'm a lefty, I'm about 155 lbs. in weight, and I have a devastating left hook. I just saw another website that says lefties have the advantage in a fight because righties "simply do not expect the left hook."

Consider yourself warned! I'm an unassuming little guy that learned to box and whup ass in the USMC. I relish the idea of knocking yet another big guy on his rump.

Beware the little guy looking to prove a point.

roschelle · 1 month ago

Lefty here too. My parents, right handed, My husband, right handed. Both of our boys, lefties....Yay!!!