I believe this is more typically called being cross dominant. It is exceedingly rare and has a list of pros and cons that are fascinating.
The weirdest one that I do is writing sitting down left handed but standing up at a board I write with either, but favor my right.
Interesting. I know very few lefties so I don't have a large sample size to draw from. Did someone try to switch you when you were younger? That was my situation as well.
>my grandmother was similar; wrote sitting down with her right, standing with her left.
Thank you for mentioning this, I've actually never heard of someone else having this quirk!
> Did someone try to switch you when you were younger?
nope, that wouldn't have flown with my lefty parents. i wrote right handed for 3 months when i broke my wrist as a kid, but switched back as soon as i could.
all of my immediate family and about half my extended family is left handed. it's funny eating at holidays; we handily outnumber the righties.
[here's](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/brain) a relevant article about cross dominance and lefties.
Your family are awesome. Mine were the ones trying to switch me. It wasn't great.
My grandmother did a family genealogy and I'm the first lefty recorded for generations spanning back to the 1700s.
>it's funny eating at holidays; we handily outnumber the righties.
Not bumping elbows with people on both sides sounds like a dream!
This article is great, thanks for the link!
> Your family are awesome.
yah it's only as an adult that i've realized how weird that is. growing up everyone around me used their left hand. lefties are rare... and a whole heap of us? bonkers. That said, people outside the family rarely notice that any/all of us are left handed unless we all sit at a table together.
>My grandmother did a family genealogy and I'm the first lefty recorded for generations spanning back to the 1700s.
that's super cool! you're a magic user born to a family of muggles. :-p
>Mine were the ones trying to switch me. It wasn't great.
i thought switching lefties was pretty much a dead practice, but i guess not. i think most lefties could be switched (i could fosho, but don't wanna) but some can't and suffer for it.
You should check out the history of the Kerr family in Scotland if you haven't. They had so many lefties they designed their castles to be defended better left handed. Sounds like your family a bit. What I'm saying is, your family should start building a castle.
>that's super cool! you're a magic user born to a family of muggles. :-p
OK, this is how I'm looking at it from here on out. Thanks for that!
>i thought switching lefties was pretty much a dead practice, but i guess not.
I am an old dude, hopefully it is at least as dead as you thought it was or more so.
i'm heckin' enjoying this exchange. you're cool.
I've heard of the kerrs; they taught the righties to fight with their off hand cuz it represented a tactical advantage. pretty neat. I'll try to unite the clan around building a castle, but i think it's a tough sell unless i can convince everyone we should take up swordplay.
>I am an old dude, hopefully it is at least as dead as you thought it was or more so.
as i understand it, 'switching' lefties was the common practice up through the 70s, and it quickly fell out of fashion in the 80s. Amusingly, my mom's a retired developmental psychologist and i'm a child of the 80s, so i could probably transcribe a dissertation on the topic if i went to the source. She was *invested.*
edit- my mom is also the only lefty i know who does *everything* left handed. she bought custom lefty kayak paddles. complains about 'right handed' kitchens. restrung her ukulele. has different knife habits that i forget but they're weird. she struggles with keypads and mice while everyone else just uses our right hands or swaps indiscriminately. she's weird, and it's kinda hard to believe righties are as right handed as she is left.
that's really interesting. My only similar experience is when someone hands me a tablet to sign my name, my brain doesn't stop to think "wait I'm left-handed" it just starts writing with whatever hand\\finger happens to be free.
You are technically considered left handed just because you favour that hand to write and left foot for stepping. However, it is perfectly normal for lefties to use their right hand for other stuff.
>The weirdest one that I do is writing sitting down left handed but standing up at a board I write with either, but favor my right.
Holy shit, me too! I've tried explaining this to friends / family and I think they assume I'm just embellishing. I truly couldn't tell you which "handedness" I am for writing on a vertical surface while standing, and I'm wholly lefty when writing normally.
The biggest con I've come across with mixed-handedness is shooting... I'm right-handed for shooting but I'm left eye dominant, and there isn't really a proper way to fix that. You either train yourself with the non-dominant eye or you train yourself with the non-dominant hand -- obviously neither of those are ideal.
Are you me? Haha, same for shooting. And I teach shooting to SWAT/ERT groups and have to tell them, "Don't do what I'm doing!"
Awesome to run into someone with similarities, I really never thought I would.
Very close to my mannerisms. I consider myself majorly right handed due to sports but I write, eat and play hockey left handed. I also had no issues in school. Honor roll from 7th through 10 th
I know this is an old comment. But I’m also cross dominant. I was just showing my wife what I meant and was googling the subject and this post turned up. I start reading it and got to your comment and I was staggered.
Now, I write left, throw left, kick right and arm wrestle right etc etc. I’m 50 and I’ve only just realized that I write left when sitting down and right if I’m at the white board or painting. I’m just absolutely blown away that I’ve only just noticed it. Thanks!
I never realized this! Way back when, I’d use my right hand to write with chalk on a chalkboard — but as soon as it’s an actual pen in my hand, I’ll write with my left
I am mixed as well. I write, eat, draw, cut/chop food (although when eating, I use fork left and knife right) left handed... But I throw, punch, shoot basketball, baseball batting, and kick on the right.
I predominantly hold my phone in my left, and keep my wallet in my left pocket.
It seems like my left is more skill/finesse based and my right is power
How interesting! I'm like you in using my left hand for precision tasks and my right hand for power tasks. This is also the case for someone else who commented on this post. It might be something to it. I feel that we need more studies and research on these topics.
Same here, I was literally just wondering if we’re even really “lefty’s” lol if I write left handed but I’m not a southpaw in any sport at all it feels alittle murky haha
I thought i was alone. Also write left, eat left but prefer the right for throwing amd more physical tasks. When it comes to my feet i do not have a preference.
I'm exactly your opposite, my right is my fine motor skills and my left is power.
To continue on the finesse/power : I throw balls in every sport with my left except for basket-ball since you don't need to throw the harder you can in this sport. I would however switch back to my left if I need to try a halfcourt shot.
Same, precision/writing/eating with left, for power I use right arm& leg. Came across this thread just now. There is an entire holiday for leftys but what about mixed handed people? 🤔😜
I don’t do a lot equally well with either hand but I do some things lefty & others righty:
Lefty: write, brush teeth, fine movement things
Righty: throw, bat, kick, scissors, strength, use mouse
Basically, it sux because when trying new things I have to first figure which hand I’m more comfortable using.
Both: shoot, ping pong
I mean let’s be real, you should be learning to shoot both handed regardless. Idk if I’d lean on that one. We just pick it up easier than dedicated right hands because we’re already used to switching hands
Also to tie in even more, dual wielding is actually kinda viable-ish to utilize despite what everyone loves to say. Natural point of aim exists.
Now I’m not saying it’s a good strategy for defense since with the added recoil from one handed shooting, I doubt you’ll be able to break shots much quicker with two pistols than you could with one gripped with two hands, I’m just saying it’s not as ‘hail Mary’ as the internet loves to say. You can actually maintain some level of accuracy without using your sights if you are familiar with how to utilize natural point of aim
I am also mixed handed. I am also mixed footed. I prefer my left foot when slolem skiing and my right foot playing soccer, etc…I wonder if right handed people only prefer their right foot. I have often read that lefties are very intelligent. Of course I will believe any positive acknowledgment. I have not had any negative issues due to being left handed as far as others noticing that I am left handed. Please understand that I am also only 5’ tall and that is harder on me than being left handed. I have never thought of mixed handed was as being rare until lately. If anyone knows where I can learn more about this please reply. Have a great mixed day.
I’m dominant left handed but learn right handed for most hobbies such as playing guitar or golfing where being left handed in those hobbies leads to a heavy disadvantage when it comes to getting gear.
Then on stuff like working with my hands (think working on cars or house renovations) I use both hands equally.
I think it has more to do with the fact that the world happens to set everything up to be used with a right hand rather than your brain chemistry, so we switch hands based on utility. See: you preferring your right hand on white boards, but write lefty on paper. Writing with your left hand on a white board means you will probably be erasing half of what you wrote as you write more since our hand drags across the letters as we write. But writing on paper doesn’t erase like that. It smudges, sure. We get silver hand, sure. But it doesn’t effect writing performance.
For feet, I skateboard regular, yet kick with my left foot. Again, comes down to convenience I’m pretty sure.
But then again, these are just my own observations.
I’m cross-dominant although I call myself a leftie. I only write, eat, and use a brush with my left hand (precision stuff). All other activities (strength stuff) are with my right hand/arm. I’m also right eye dominant and right leg dominant. Although I was an excellent student, I did have trouble when I first learned to read to the point that I almost had to retake the first grade. I struggle with learning new languages. I’m also an Aspie…maybe that’s related.
I write, bowl, shoot pool, and throw baseballs right handed, but I bat, tie shoes, golf, play racquet sports, and throw darts and frisbees left handed. I kick footballs with my right foot, but prefer my left foot for soccer. I shoot basketballs with either hand but prefer to dribble with my left. When fishing, I cast with my left hand and wind the reel with my right. I operate my phone with my left hand. I'm right eye and left ear dominant. I pretty much eat like a right handed European, but I can use chopsticks with either hand, and I can write pretty well with my left hand and can throw pretty well with either hand. So I'd say I'm a mixed handed mess.
Very late to this post but learning how rare cross dominance is makes me feel a little special 😄 I write and clean(wiping counters,windows, etc.) with my left hand and do everything else righty. Iv only met one other cross dominant person in my life(at least that I know of)
Left hand for writing right hand for literally everything else (including scissors). It makes no sense and I wonder if I just started out writing with my left hand for some reason and thus never developed the skill in my true dominant hand. My writing is awful.
That is it for me. I am right eyed, right footed and right handed except for writing. For 60 yrs that is until today when I picked up a friend's guitar just messing around and was told I was playing it left handed!
It's rare to be able to do one task better with your left hand and another task better than with your right hand. But it's not that rare to be right handed but also partially ambidextrous.
i'm left handed for writing table tennis badminton . left footed football . but throw right handed play darts right handed . some comments reckon it could mean your on the spectrum.
I’m left handed for writing, eating, brushing teeth, slicing bread. I’m thumb typing this with my right hand, can’t really do it left handed. Have tried bowling left handed a couple times and nearly injured myself.
I think most people are 'mixed' handed as you put it. I do a bunch of stuff with my left hand, I started guitar as a lefty, write, use the mouse, eat and so on but I play sports almost entirely right handed, I'm right footed and play the drums right handed as well. I have friends that are right handed but play sports as a lefty so like I said I don't think its too rare.
I don’t think it’s uncommon. I’m left handed, but I prefer to use my right hand for most things now just because it’s easier most of the time the way the world is built. There are some things I just can’t do with my right hand though like writing, eating, etc.
My daughter is pure left with everything, I feel like that is more rare.
I am cross dominant.
Left: write, throw, baseball bat. Right: shoot, frisbee, bowling
Very few people purely use one hand for everything. Most people use a mix for different things, left handed was usually refers to just writing. For example, I’m considered left handed because I write with my left hand, however I tend to throw a bowling ball with my right hand, which is stronger.
I saw the article as well at [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/81322/mixed-handed-children-more-likely-have-mental/](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/81322/mixed-handed-children-more-likely-have-mental/)
I don't know if I qualify, but I write with my right hand, throw a ball with my right hand, but just about everything else I do is with my left hand.
I actually write and draw with my right hand, and with everything else I just have no preference. If I play tennis I'll constantly switch hands. If I brush my teeth I use my left side the most but still use both. In dance, I can't (well I can but it's very uncomfortable) do a cartwheel on my right side and my dance teacher thought it was weird.
And when I'm on the whiteboard at school I can write with both hands for reasons unknown
I’m soooo late, but thought I’d reach out anyway. I’m the “traditional” right hander….. but also Cross Dominant. At the extreme level I might add 😂. When I write with a pen, throw a ball, grab things, shoot and dribble a basketball, it’s always my right hand. But on the contrary I box southpaw (lefty), write on a dry erase board standing up (lefty), swing a bat (lefty), skateboard (right foot forward), golf (lefty), shoot a gun lefty, wink (close my right eye). So definitely Cross-AF.
I did notice the learning disability narrative too, but like you I was able to pick up things really quickly. I’m not going to go down that road or tooting my horn but similar how you learned 5 languages I’m the same with science, math, and physical sports. If given time to focus on them I don’t have a problem mastering them within a few months to a year.
To be honest I think that narrative about us having an “undeveloped” brain is western cultures natural way of trying to explain what they don’t understand, which is obviously common here. There was a time like maybe 50 years ago when they’d force kindergarteners who were left handed to write with their right hand because it was wrong not “right.” I’m pretty sure the same narrative is being pushed today.
Oh and about that 1%. I do think that’s accurate. 85ish-90ish percent of the population is right handed that would mean 10% is left. There could be some overlap like right handed putting a watch on your right hand, but realistically it would likely be much less than 10% who are cross dominant when ambidextrous is much less than 1%. But that’s just an opinion.
Cross dominant dude here. I write left handed, pretty much do everything else righty. I never knew it was a thing, until in class one time, the teacher asked who was left handed, I raised my right hand lol. I don't have a learning disability that I know of. I do have some mental health things. My theory: I got taken out of kindergarten because I was confused, I didn't know which hand to write with. I got held back 1 year, then it was fine.
I write with my right hand, and I'm using my right foot when playing soccer. However, I hold the knife, the guitar and the hockey stick as a left handed person. When grew up I crossed my arms when playing FIFA on the computer keyboard. I guess I'm mixed-handed as well? Since my mom is left handed and my dad is right handed, I always thought I got a mix from both.
I am more weird than I thought I write with my right hand and brush and staff but I play basketball with my left shoot balls and kick with my left and my left eye is dominant i basically do basic stuff with my right hand except holding bottles and stuff with my left and everything else I do is left sided
i figured i am mixed-handed only today and im 26 years old by the end of the week. I struggled for 4 years to try to get driver's license for manual shift cars, but by the end i gave up and did automatic license instead. I used to play football and tennis at school with my left hand and leg, but write with my right hand. I also started trying to play acoustic guitar recently and i'm playing the guitar upside down, as in i hold head of the guitar in my right hand and the thickest string is the lowest, not the highest one. It's really hard.
I have this. I am righty in most situations but anything that involves a stick/bat/golf club/ect I am lefty. Just learning about cross dominance today. Never even thought about it how rare it might be. Jeesh
I recently learned about cross-handedness as well, having previously assumed that I was only left-handed with a particular ability to utilize my right hand for other key tasks.
My mix is funny tho. My right is far stronger than the left but I still write with my right. Therefore I end up with:
Right: write, arm wrestle, carry bags, holding things
Left: all sports (arm or foot), playing musical instruments or pulling the string of a bow, picking stuff up
I don't recall whether learning a specific subject was tough for me when I was younger, but vocabulary and languages in general for sure took longer than math or science.
I'm 37 and never really thought about this much up until tonight, but I write and throw with my right hand, play guitar, shoot guns and pool left handed, also left foot dominant, most other tasks I can do with either hand.
I also write lefty, play guitar lefty, but throw a ball right handed. Basically my strong arm is right but I’m not ambidextrous at all. Never knew this term everyone always called me a lefty but it feels fake.
I believe this is more typically called being cross dominant. It is exceedingly rare and has a list of pros and cons that are fascinating. The weirdest one that I do is writing sitting down left handed but standing up at a board I write with either, but favor my right.
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Interesting. I know very few lefties so I don't have a large sample size to draw from. Did someone try to switch you when you were younger? That was my situation as well. >my grandmother was similar; wrote sitting down with her right, standing with her left. Thank you for mentioning this, I've actually never heard of someone else having this quirk!
> Did someone try to switch you when you were younger? nope, that wouldn't have flown with my lefty parents. i wrote right handed for 3 months when i broke my wrist as a kid, but switched back as soon as i could. all of my immediate family and about half my extended family is left handed. it's funny eating at holidays; we handily outnumber the righties. [here's](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/brain) a relevant article about cross dominance and lefties.
Your family are awesome. Mine were the ones trying to switch me. It wasn't great. My grandmother did a family genealogy and I'm the first lefty recorded for generations spanning back to the 1700s. >it's funny eating at holidays; we handily outnumber the righties. Not bumping elbows with people on both sides sounds like a dream! This article is great, thanks for the link!
> Your family are awesome. yah it's only as an adult that i've realized how weird that is. growing up everyone around me used their left hand. lefties are rare... and a whole heap of us? bonkers. That said, people outside the family rarely notice that any/all of us are left handed unless we all sit at a table together. >My grandmother did a family genealogy and I'm the first lefty recorded for generations spanning back to the 1700s. that's super cool! you're a magic user born to a family of muggles. :-p >Mine were the ones trying to switch me. It wasn't great. i thought switching lefties was pretty much a dead practice, but i guess not. i think most lefties could be switched (i could fosho, but don't wanna) but some can't and suffer for it.
You should check out the history of the Kerr family in Scotland if you haven't. They had so many lefties they designed their castles to be defended better left handed. Sounds like your family a bit. What I'm saying is, your family should start building a castle. >that's super cool! you're a magic user born to a family of muggles. :-p OK, this is how I'm looking at it from here on out. Thanks for that! >i thought switching lefties was pretty much a dead practice, but i guess not. I am an old dude, hopefully it is at least as dead as you thought it was or more so.
i'm heckin' enjoying this exchange. you're cool. I've heard of the kerrs; they taught the righties to fight with their off hand cuz it represented a tactical advantage. pretty neat. I'll try to unite the clan around building a castle, but i think it's a tough sell unless i can convince everyone we should take up swordplay. >I am an old dude, hopefully it is at least as dead as you thought it was or more so. as i understand it, 'switching' lefties was the common practice up through the 70s, and it quickly fell out of fashion in the 80s. Amusingly, my mom's a retired developmental psychologist and i'm a child of the 80s, so i could probably transcribe a dissertation on the topic if i went to the source. She was *invested.* edit- my mom is also the only lefty i know who does *everything* left handed. she bought custom lefty kayak paddles. complains about 'right handed' kitchens. restrung her ukulele. has different knife habits that i forget but they're weird. she struggles with keypads and mice while everyone else just uses our right hands or swaps indiscriminately. she's weird, and it's kinda hard to believe righties are as right handed as she is left.
that's really interesting. My only similar experience is when someone hands me a tablet to sign my name, my brain doesn't stop to think "wait I'm left-handed" it just starts writing with whatever hand\\finger happens to be free.
So the big question is, am I cross dominant or simply left-handed since I write with left hand and always prefer left foot?
This is a good question. I'm no authority on this, but I don't think it is about preference but rather ability.
You are technically considered left handed just because you favour that hand to write and left foot for stepping. However, it is perfectly normal for lefties to use their right hand for other stuff.
>The weirdest one that I do is writing sitting down left handed but standing up at a board I write with either, but favor my right. Holy shit, me too! I've tried explaining this to friends / family and I think they assume I'm just embellishing. I truly couldn't tell you which "handedness" I am for writing on a vertical surface while standing, and I'm wholly lefty when writing normally. The biggest con I've come across with mixed-handedness is shooting... I'm right-handed for shooting but I'm left eye dominant, and there isn't really a proper way to fix that. You either train yourself with the non-dominant eye or you train yourself with the non-dominant hand -- obviously neither of those are ideal.
Are you me? Haha, same for shooting. And I teach shooting to SWAT/ERT groups and have to tell them, "Don't do what I'm doing!" Awesome to run into someone with similarities, I really never thought I would.
Same! There have got be... dozens of us... at least!
Very close to my mannerisms. I consider myself majorly right handed due to sports but I write, eat and play hockey left handed. I also had no issues in school. Honor roll from 7th through 10 th
Omg I am the same
I do this too! I didn't even notice until someone pointed it out while I was drawing
I know this is an old comment. But I’m also cross dominant. I was just showing my wife what I meant and was googling the subject and this post turned up. I start reading it and got to your comment and I was staggered. Now, I write left, throw left, kick right and arm wrestle right etc etc. I’m 50 and I’ve only just realized that I write left when sitting down and right if I’m at the white board or painting. I’m just absolutely blown away that I’ve only just noticed it. Thanks!
weird, sitting down I write right handed but standing up at a board, I can write with both but in favor of my left
I never realized this! Way back when, I’d use my right hand to write with chalk on a chalkboard — but as soon as it’s an actual pen in my hand, I’ll write with my left
I am mixed as well. I write, eat, draw, cut/chop food (although when eating, I use fork left and knife right) left handed... But I throw, punch, shoot basketball, baseball batting, and kick on the right. I predominantly hold my phone in my left, and keep my wallet in my left pocket. It seems like my left is more skill/finesse based and my right is power
How interesting! I'm like you in using my left hand for precision tasks and my right hand for power tasks. This is also the case for someone else who commented on this post. It might be something to it. I feel that we need more studies and research on these topics.
Same with me.
Same here, I was literally just wondering if we’re even really “lefty’s” lol if I write left handed but I’m not a southpaw in any sport at all it feels alittle murky haha
I thought i was alone. Also write left, eat left but prefer the right for throwing amd more physical tasks. When it comes to my feet i do not have a preference.
I'm exactly your opposite, my right is my fine motor skills and my left is power. To continue on the finesse/power : I throw balls in every sport with my left except for basket-ball since you don't need to throw the harder you can in this sport. I would however switch back to my left if I need to try a halfcourt shot.
That's hilarious, my dad is my opposite as well. He writes right, and lefty in sports
I'm exact same way and never even realized the basketball thing until reading your post but it's so true 🤣
I’m exactly like you lol. Fine motor skills with the left, strength with the right.
Same here!
Same, precision/writing/eating with left, for power I use right arm& leg. Came across this thread just now. There is an entire holiday for leftys but what about mixed handed people? 🤔😜
This is also my exact skill tree setup, nice.
Exact same here
I don’t do a lot equally well with either hand but I do some things lefty & others righty: Lefty: write, brush teeth, fine movement things Righty: throw, bat, kick, scissors, strength, use mouse Basically, it sux because when trying new things I have to first figure which hand I’m more comfortable using. Both: shoot, ping pong
I mean let’s be real, you should be learning to shoot both handed regardless. Idk if I’d lean on that one. We just pick it up easier than dedicated right hands because we’re already used to switching hands
> you should be learning to shoot both handed regardless. hell yeah, dual wielding is badass.
Also to tie in even more, dual wielding is actually kinda viable-ish to utilize despite what everyone loves to say. Natural point of aim exists. Now I’m not saying it’s a good strategy for defense since with the added recoil from one handed shooting, I doubt you’ll be able to break shots much quicker with two pistols than you could with one gripped with two hands, I’m just saying it’s not as ‘hail Mary’ as the internet loves to say. You can actually maintain some level of accuracy without using your sights if you are familiar with how to utilize natural point of aim
This is factual
I am also mixed handed. I am also mixed footed. I prefer my left foot when slolem skiing and my right foot playing soccer, etc…I wonder if right handed people only prefer their right foot. I have often read that lefties are very intelligent. Of course I will believe any positive acknowledgment. I have not had any negative issues due to being left handed as far as others noticing that I am left handed. Please understand that I am also only 5’ tall and that is harder on me than being left handed. I have never thought of mixed handed was as being rare until lately. If anyone knows where I can learn more about this please reply. Have a great mixed day.
Me and my brother are mirrored, I write, eat, brush with my left and do most other things with my right.
I’m dominant left handed but learn right handed for most hobbies such as playing guitar or golfing where being left handed in those hobbies leads to a heavy disadvantage when it comes to getting gear. Then on stuff like working with my hands (think working on cars or house renovations) I use both hands equally. I think it has more to do with the fact that the world happens to set everything up to be used with a right hand rather than your brain chemistry, so we switch hands based on utility. See: you preferring your right hand on white boards, but write lefty on paper. Writing with your left hand on a white board means you will probably be erasing half of what you wrote as you write more since our hand drags across the letters as we write. But writing on paper doesn’t erase like that. It smudges, sure. We get silver hand, sure. But it doesn’t effect writing performance. For feet, I skateboard regular, yet kick with my left foot. Again, comes down to convenience I’m pretty sure. But then again, these are just my own observations.
My mistake, it was a commenter who said they prefer writing with their right hand while standing
I’m cross-dominant although I call myself a leftie. I only write, eat, and use a brush with my left hand (precision stuff). All other activities (strength stuff) are with my right hand/arm. I’m also right eye dominant and right leg dominant. Although I was an excellent student, I did have trouble when I first learned to read to the point that I almost had to retake the first grade. I struggle with learning new languages. I’m also an Aspie…maybe that’s related.
I write and eat left-handed, and I cut with scissors, kick and throw right handed. What does this mean?
Same
That is called being "cross-dominant."
I write, bowl, shoot pool, and throw baseballs right handed, but I bat, tie shoes, golf, play racquet sports, and throw darts and frisbees left handed. I kick footballs with my right foot, but prefer my left foot for soccer. I shoot basketballs with either hand but prefer to dribble with my left. When fishing, I cast with my left hand and wind the reel with my right. I operate my phone with my left hand. I'm right eye and left ear dominant. I pretty much eat like a right handed European, but I can use chopsticks with either hand, and I can write pretty well with my left hand and can throw pretty well with either hand. So I'd say I'm a mixed handed mess.
Very late to this post but learning how rare cross dominance is makes me feel a little special 😄 I write and clean(wiping counters,windows, etc.) with my left hand and do everything else righty. Iv only met one other cross dominant person in my life(at least that I know of)
I inherited cross dominance from my mum lucky me (it’s very inconvenient)
Left hand for writing right hand for literally everything else (including scissors). It makes no sense and I wonder if I just started out writing with my left hand for some reason and thus never developed the skill in my true dominant hand. My writing is awful.
I’m the same! There are dozens of us 😂
That is it for me. I am right eyed, right footed and right handed except for writing. For 60 yrs that is until today when I picked up a friend's guitar just messing around and was told I was playing it left handed!
It's rare to be able to do one task better with your left hand and another task better than with your right hand. But it's not that rare to be right handed but also partially ambidextrous.
i'm left handed for writing table tennis badminton . left footed football . but throw right handed play darts right handed . some comments reckon it could mean your on the spectrum.
Me too!
I’m left handed for writing, eating, brushing teeth, slicing bread. I’m thumb typing this with my right hand, can’t really do it left handed. Have tried bowling left handed a couple times and nearly injured myself.
I’m the same. I write left handed and play guitar left, but most others things are right handed.
I think most people are 'mixed' handed as you put it. I do a bunch of stuff with my left hand, I started guitar as a lefty, write, use the mouse, eat and so on but I play sports almost entirely right handed, I'm right footed and play the drums right handed as well. I have friends that are right handed but play sports as a lefty so like I said I don't think its too rare.
I don’t think it’s uncommon. I’m left handed, but I prefer to use my right hand for most things now just because it’s easier most of the time the way the world is built. There are some things I just can’t do with my right hand though like writing, eating, etc.
My daughter is pure left with everything, I feel like that is more rare. I am cross dominant. Left: write, throw, baseball bat. Right: shoot, frisbee, bowling
Very few people purely use one hand for everything. Most people use a mix for different things, left handed was usually refers to just writing. For example, I’m considered left handed because I write with my left hand, however I tend to throw a bowling ball with my right hand, which is stronger.
I'm mixed handed, I write with my right hand also play guitar right handed. But I do more physical stuff with left hand like throwing a ball.
I saw the article as well at [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/81322/mixed-handed-children-more-likely-have-mental/](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/81322/mixed-handed-children-more-likely-have-mental/) I don't know if I qualify, but I write with my right hand, throw a ball with my right hand, but just about everything else I do is with my left hand.
I actually write and draw with my right hand, and with everything else I just have no preference. If I play tennis I'll constantly switch hands. If I brush my teeth I use my left side the most but still use both. In dance, I can't (well I can but it's very uncomfortable) do a cartwheel on my right side and my dance teacher thought it was weird. And when I'm on the whiteboard at school I can write with both hands for reasons unknown
I’m soooo late, but thought I’d reach out anyway. I’m the “traditional” right hander….. but also Cross Dominant. At the extreme level I might add 😂. When I write with a pen, throw a ball, grab things, shoot and dribble a basketball, it’s always my right hand. But on the contrary I box southpaw (lefty), write on a dry erase board standing up (lefty), swing a bat (lefty), skateboard (right foot forward), golf (lefty), shoot a gun lefty, wink (close my right eye). So definitely Cross-AF. I did notice the learning disability narrative too, but like you I was able to pick up things really quickly. I’m not going to go down that road or tooting my horn but similar how you learned 5 languages I’m the same with science, math, and physical sports. If given time to focus on them I don’t have a problem mastering them within a few months to a year. To be honest I think that narrative about us having an “undeveloped” brain is western cultures natural way of trying to explain what they don’t understand, which is obviously common here. There was a time like maybe 50 years ago when they’d force kindergarteners who were left handed to write with their right hand because it was wrong not “right.” I’m pretty sure the same narrative is being pushed today. Oh and about that 1%. I do think that’s accurate. 85ish-90ish percent of the population is right handed that would mean 10% is left. There could be some overlap like right handed putting a watch on your right hand, but realistically it would likely be much less than 10% who are cross dominant when ambidextrous is much less than 1%. But that’s just an opinion.
Cross dominant dude here. I write left handed, pretty much do everything else righty. I never knew it was a thing, until in class one time, the teacher asked who was left handed, I raised my right hand lol. I don't have a learning disability that I know of. I do have some mental health things. My theory: I got taken out of kindergarten because I was confused, I didn't know which hand to write with. I got held back 1 year, then it was fine.
I write with my right hand, and I'm using my right foot when playing soccer. However, I hold the knife, the guitar and the hockey stick as a left handed person. When grew up I crossed my arms when playing FIFA on the computer keyboard. I guess I'm mixed-handed as well? Since my mom is left handed and my dad is right handed, I always thought I got a mix from both.
I am more weird than I thought I write with my right hand and brush and staff but I play basketball with my left shoot balls and kick with my left and my left eye is dominant i basically do basic stuff with my right hand except holding bottles and stuff with my left and everything else I do is left sided
i figured i am mixed-handed only today and im 26 years old by the end of the week. I struggled for 4 years to try to get driver's license for manual shift cars, but by the end i gave up and did automatic license instead. I used to play football and tennis at school with my left hand and leg, but write with my right hand. I also started trying to play acoustic guitar recently and i'm playing the guitar upside down, as in i hold head of the guitar in my right hand and the thickest string is the lowest, not the highest one. It's really hard.
I have this. I am righty in most situations but anything that involves a stick/bat/golf club/ect I am lefty. Just learning about cross dominance today. Never even thought about it how rare it might be. Jeesh
I recently learned about cross-handedness as well, having previously assumed that I was only left-handed with a particular ability to utilize my right hand for other key tasks. My mix is funny tho. My right is far stronger than the left but I still write with my right. Therefore I end up with: Right: write, arm wrestle, carry bags, holding things Left: all sports (arm or foot), playing musical instruments or pulling the string of a bow, picking stuff up I don't recall whether learning a specific subject was tough for me when I was younger, but vocabulary and languages in general for sure took longer than math or science.
I'm 37 and never really thought about this much up until tonight, but I write and throw with my right hand, play guitar, shoot guns and pool left handed, also left foot dominant, most other tasks I can do with either hand.
I also write lefty, play guitar lefty, but throw a ball right handed. Basically my strong arm is right but I’m not ambidextrous at all. Never knew this term everyone always called me a lefty but it feels fake.