Are you a Right hander or a Left hander?
I use my left hand for writing, right hand for scissors, right hand for shooting the basketball, left hand for punching, bat right handed but throw left handed for baseball.

 

You are definitely left-handed, anyone reading this, try and put your left-hand into a pair of scissors.

 

I write and eat with my left hand. Everything else I do right handed. I throw, bat, swing a hammer, operate power tools and hand tools, all right handed. I catch with my left hand like most people. That was because my dad made me learn to use my right hand. He couldn't stand me being left handed. I was at a tool show one time and a guy from Milwaukee power tools stepped out into the crowded isle and singled me out to give me a left handed pencil. It had the writing from top to bottom. How did he know I was left handed? Was it the foot I start walking on?
Dave

 

You would think so, but try this on your self, then your co-workers. Have them stand, arms at sides, eyes closed. Then ask them to take one step forward without opening their eyes. Observe which foot they step out with.

I only recently found I was right handed but left footed. At the snowboard rental store, the tech asked my daugher if she rode normal or 'goofy-footed'. Inquiring as to what 'goofy-footed' was, she expalined it was your leading foot going downhill. To my surprise, I ride goofy-foot (left) whereas most right handed people ride normal. Using the above test was one method to predict such tendencies.

 

May have something to do with veteran status.

While I do not know which foot I would lead with before 1970, I do know that I would not even THINK of leading with the right foot now. I just KNOW some drill sergeant will yell at me. DROP N' GIMME 50; .

 

I'm with Raul on the left foot start - same reason.

Otherwise:

Writing: Left
Throwing: Right
Batting: Right
Hammering: Either
Sawing: Either
Loosing/tightening jar lids, nuts, etc: Either
Fine tedious work: Left
Coarse work: Right
Soldering: Gun in right hand, solder in left
Handgun Shooting: Either
Rifle: Right handed

But I do not hold my pencil upside down when I write. I use it just like a right-handed person, only with the left hand.

I do have some left-handed pens too (they don't smear if you drag your hand across where you have written with them).

 

Could be simpler than that, do you wear a watch on you right arm? Most lefties do. How about a belt? Most lefties feed it in from the right side loops. Or how about carrying something like a book or bag. Righties usually carry with the left .
I would say that salesman is a good one if he picked up on your lefty status by observing you.

 

I am a "made" righthander... mean first-grade teacher saw me using a pencil with my left and "corrected" me. So now I write, use a fork, brush my teeth and shave with my right hand. I can write with my left, though.

What else?

Bat: both sides, from the age of about 9.
Throw: right (3rd baseman-did'nt have much choice.
Watch: carry a pocket watch, so no clue there.
Walk: start with the left foot. Same reason as above.
Kick: either foot, depending on what I happen to be kicking.
Shooting: right with rifle (bad left eye), either with pistol.
Welding or using cutting torch: either hand, depends on how the piece is situated.
Wrenches: right
Screwdrivers: either

Oh yeah, and lastly

Giving the bird: whichever hand is closest to the idiot who deserved it.

 

I'm a righty but I've got this thing with dating lefty's I've noticed for some reason. My grandmother was a lefty that the school converted to a righty and she could barely write with either hand. It takes her forever.

french horn = mandatory left
trumpet = mandatory right
wrenches/wratchets = either
write = right
smoke a cig = mostly left but either
opening jars and things = either
turning shower/sink faucets on = both
toilet paper = right
step onto stairs = left (bad bad bad right knee)
first step otherwise = right (kill stepped in marching band in hs)
always step on the crack of the cement = left (again marching band)
dominant eye = right (archery class in college)
bowling = right
pool = right
throwing = either is deadly when I'm mad and have something heavy otherwise I can't throw either way
curling my hair = right
blow dryer = either

It always amazes me to see a lefty do stuff. Maybe that's why I end up dating leftys ... I really don't care but looking at it, I have dated more leftys ... I'm just weird I guess.

 

As I read the posts on this topic, I was noticing how many of you shot a rifle with one hand and ate, drank or whatever with your left hand. Most humans have a dominat eye and that will determine which side you use to shoot a rifle, unless you learned to close that eye so you could shoot with (generally) the right hand. This was usually done to please your instructor or drill sargent. Properly done a rifle is shot with both eyes open. In my teaching 4H shooting classes, I find it is amazing how many students are left eyed. They will usually learn to shoot left handed or drop out and go play some ridiculous stick and ball sport. Whether we lefties use our left or right hand to do a task is often determined by the tools we are using. Someone above mentioned using scissors with your left hand. It IS nearly impossible, but lefty scissors are available. I once had an electric hand drill bit hang while drilling some steel, that drill nearly beat me to death before the cord finally wound itself up and unplugged. The trigger lock was on the side of the handle and my left index finger had locked it. When I released the trigger, it just kept on running. YYYEEEEEHHHAAAWWW. I'm more carefull now and the trigger lock no longer exists on that drill.

 

I do everything left handed except shoot a rifle because I am right eye dominant. I hold a pistol in my left hand but use my right eye. Grade school tried to change me but soon gave up.

 

I shoot Archery left handed, Rifle right handed, shotgun and Pistol either handed.

My Mom said I was born left handed, but my Dad and Grandmother changed me over.

I do believe I do the more delicate and deliberate work with my right hand.
Hammering and tinkering with small stuff like watch springs.

I do my mechanical work with either hand.

In baseball I hit either side, but throw right handed.

...important thing I always do with my right hand, and I'm only gonna do it till I go blind in one eye!

 

Right dominant, but almost ambixtrous. I learned to do almost everything left handed, I am actually more nimble with my left hand than my right, but I write right-handed. I can, however, write upside down and backwards with my left hand. It looks noremal when you turn paper over.

 

I'm with FarmForward & FordSix,

Was BORN ambidexterous, but someone thought I should write right-handed. That & scissoring is all I do exclusively with my right hand.

I use either hand Comfortably, when I shoot, use my power tools (I've been a contractor for 20 years), shoot pool equally well with both, etc.

My party trick is writing things with BOTH hands in opposite directions at the SAME time. Looks pretty good too!
(Am I in my Right mind??? Opps Left...sorry...missed ya!!! Thank Heaven they get along!!!!)

I can write with both hands in the same direction also, just not as neatly with the left.

My daughter is a Lefty...I let HER choose.

Jane

 

I'm ambidextrous. When they were teaching me to write in elementary, I'd do the curves and circles (you know, c, s, o, 6, 8) with one hand and the straights with another (k, A, x, z, w, 4). A letter that combined curves and straights like R or B took forever. They made me choose a hand, and at the time right seemed most logical since the world is set up for right-handed people. I can do anything left handed as well as right, just my right has more practice writing neatly. When it comes to batting, I miss the ball with both hands.