becoming left-handed hahaha

[Tash]

ok this is really random it has become my latest challenge to become left handed! now i do show some signs of left-handedness already  cos i use scissors and can openers and throw darts with my left hand, and have just discovered that cutting bread and cheese and stuff is easier with my left hand. so i'm gonna move onto writing and stuff soon. so my question is do you think it's possible to completely switch hands??!!!

[amanfang]

If you have been writing for so long with one hand, I think you will probably find it difficult to switch writing.  I am left-handed, but I do a lot of stuff with my right.  In fact, my right is actually stronger than the left.  But I can't write with my right.  I think at one point (correct me if I'm wrong someone) the Catholic church thought it was bad to be left handed, so they made all the left handed kids at Catholic schools write with their right hand.  So my neighbor (she was old, and passed away a couple years ago) said she ended up never being able to write well with either hand.

[Peachy_Keen]

Is it possible to use your left hand to do everything for you? Yes. Eventually you may be able to write with your left hand, but it will be slower and messier than your right, and your writing with your right hand will suffer for it. You're not only fighting the way your brain is wired, you're fighting years of experience.

There aren't any "signs" of being a potential left-hander. Most people can use a can opener or scissors with either hand, they involve very simple movements.

[janice]

I'm left-handed but I need to use scissors with my right hand.  It's kinda funny, when I was in elementary school and learning how to use scissors, teachers kept trying to make me use the left-handed scissors, and they kept trying to get me to cut with my left hand.  I would get mad, because cutting was easier with my right hand.  I would get mad at the teachers because they just didn't understand!  Does anybody know you can tell if a pianist is right-handed or left-handed just by looking at them and watching them play?  I've never thought of that until now.  Does anybody know?

[allchopin]

I would wager that Godowsky was left-handed, after having a look at his Chopin transcriptions.  Either that or simply ambidextrous.

[Spatula]

Supposedly left handed people, like myself, are good at drawing and art...again that's supposedly.  But my right arm/hand is better at arm wrestling and much everything else.

[minimozart007]

Supposedly left handed people, like myself, are good at drawing and art...again that's supposedly.  But my right arm/hand is better at arm wrestling and much everything else.

Really! I'm lefty and I SUCK at visual art.  ( But not aural.   )

[Glissando]

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[Troldhaugen]

I've been right-handed all my life, but weirdly my left arm is much stronger than my right one.....hmmm....I wonder why....

[pianonut]

Do you play tennis?

[Troldhaugen]

No.....but maybe playing the piano for years could've strengthened my left hand? I don't know...

[jlh]

Don't know why you'd WANT to become a lefty, in a world designed for righties.  Plus, lefties die sooner than righties...

https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_196386.html

[noelle]

Supposedly left handed people, like myself, are good at drawing and art...again that's supposedly.  But my right arm/hand is better at arm wrestling and much everything else.

That's because left-handed and right-handed are associated with different sides of the brain that control creativity, etc.
There really isn't that much of a difference.

And, yes, it is possible to become left-handed or right-handed when you are naturally the other.  It'll still feel "right" to write with the "right" hand (bah, too many writes/rights), but there have been many cases in which people switch sides.
My friend was born lefty, but due to an accident she had had when she was little, when she was learning to write, she wasn't able to use her left hand, so learned to be a righty.  Now, while it's more comfortable to use her left hand, she always writes with her right hand because it's faster and neater.
If you, for example, lose or damage both of your hands in an accident, it IS possible to learn to write with your toes, though very difficult.  It's all a matter of training.

[bernhard]

Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2720.msg23353.html#msg23353

Just the tip of the iceberg.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[jlh]

Awesome explanation, Bernhard!  I never really thought about it that way, but now that I think about it, I usually DO look at my LH more often than my right hand.  Also, when both hands are playing at the extremeties of the piano, I usually don't even look at the RH.