Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand
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- We might have a strong hand because having a weak hand is actually useful.
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Stop perpetuating dexter dominance! Don't call it dexterity tasks, it's called fine motor control! Joking not joking.
Your videos are adorable and beautiful just like you
@@evenintaco6267 hi left handed, I'm dad.
Buen video, lo ganglionar es desconocido y no parece tener izquierda o derecha como estos cerebros centralizados, me parece extraño esa emulación en los insectos, pues su localización es distinta, ni se diga en el océano sugerencia obvservaciones.
Por cierto creo que en su funcionamiento sistema ganglionar y sistema nervioso central usan estados ocultos de la materia, lo que no se sabe es si sólo 1 o 2 y más de estos al mismo tiempo, pues eso explicaría por qué no sirven bien aún o en parte interfaces máquina o robóticas y biológicas, por prótesis y diferencias de electricidad del sistema, variando en uso, pulsos, cada cambio o no de fases de cada célula de estar en varios estados al mismo tiempo como hearts etc etc, la biología es complicada y si entre simios vatia, como sería lagomorfos, roedores, caninos, felinos etc etc, al menos es biocompayibles el reino mamífero y el ser humano el actual rey mono, pero por azares de posibilidades y risas, aún incompleto, pues no es el mejor simio de su rama simios y primates, pero bueno otra historia saludos.
OK ngl your puns are kinda funny
Ambidextrous people must be looking at both of their hands right now contemplating life after finding out they're inefficient.
@Qeycon which studies?
I'm cross hand dominate, meaning I use a different hand for different tasks. So I guess my brain couldn't decide.
@Qeycon no. In the description, they put in that they accidently typed "birds" instead of "humans" in there but they decided to keep it. This was later removed.
Lmao fool. I am way superior to you with my abilities. Such ridiculous notion that a 2 handed strong dominate person like me can be out performed because your so called left arms is now weaker and better at support. Ridiculous
@Qeycon I don’t know what studies you’re referring to, I’ve done plenty of research myself and there’s a lot of evidence that cross dominance / ambidextrousness causes the brain to be confused, which can take longer for retrieval of information. Studies also show that rather than having specialized tasks both hemispheres share the same tasks but do a worse job at it. It’s not much of a talent as people think it is, I’m ambidextrous and would honestly prefer being single handed. Doing a quick google search of “is ambidextrous good” shows that most sources say no, and I’ve done research beyond this. When you google something make sure not to put the answer to your question in the question, like “why being ambidextrous is good.” Or you’ll get biased results.
It’s hilarious and also very scary to imagine a spider hunting by just beating up its prey.
"WHAT ARE YOU- DOING" "IM HUNTING!" *LE PUNCH
FIGHT BACK
The mantis shrimp literally beats it's prey to death.
Spider hands, now rated E for everyone
Literally was just thinking about this
As a right handed kid, i was always puzzled by the fact that i was the only person getting annoyed by not being able to use my left hand as much, and started to use it more often, sometimes even only the left one, because "what if i lost my right hand"
Fast forward 10 years, and i am a right handed guy with left-handed tendencies and a left arm more stable and powerful than my right. I can basically do any task more quickly without getting tired by only switching hands coz they both can basically do everything
That "what if I lost my right hand" was both hilarious and spot on tbh
I had a "what if I lost/injured my right hand" phase after I got an extremely annoying cut on my right thumb and realized how screwed I was without my right thumb. Didn't take it as far as you, but did learn a little bit
Fk. I never thought of that
I was also a fully right-handed kid until I heard about how left-handed people are better in art and music in general. I thought it was unfair that I could never be a good musician if I stay right-handed, so I trained my left hand to be my dominant hand. Of course nothing happens to my musicality but now I'm pretty much ambidextrous. The thing is that I feel like everyone has a certain percentage of handedness, and somehow I was born with almost 100% handedness on my right hand. Until now (about 10-15 years after I made the decision to be left-handed), I still can't perform everything with my left hand. My right hand still somehow overpowers my left one in terms of strength, precision and speed. And somehow my right hand is not suitable for support either. It fails in some support tasks and it frustrates me how I wasn't born with left-hand tendencies. It's great knowing that apparently my left hand has never been so useless after all cause even though it may never by my dominant hand, I know it's an amazing support hand.
I mean if you lose your right hand youll learn how to use your left one pretty quickly
I am ambidextrous for a lot of things. And I developed that on purpose since I was 13. The point of the "weaker" hand as a supportive one is totally true and I always say that. When people try to train the other hand, things seem more difficult at start than they should be because we often try to only emulate the dominant hand movements and totally forget the supporting job of the "weaker" hand. Pay attention to both hands when doing a task and then try to switch hands. It will help a lot.
I'm right handed and I cut my right thumb badly 2 weeks ago, so I've been forced to do a lot of things non-dominantly since then. I feel like you're absolutely correct, since I realized a few days in that I needed to focus much more on support from the right hand. Once I did it got much, much easier!
I'm ambidextrous too and I got mine when I was 10
Fighting a left handed person in a sword fight? Big mistake. That leftie has experience fighting right handed people! Right handed people fight southpaws less often!
Left handed power!!!!
The same principle applies in baseball with right/left-handed pitchers against right/left-handed batters.
The same things applies for box , left-handed people has a Upper hand since they are used to fight right-handed people , meanwhile right-handed people will likely have barely fought left-handed people at all
Yep..that's why southpaws seem to generally be better at sports. Due to their experience against roght handed opponents while the opponent rarely goes up against a southpaw
@@neferpizzastudios2733 screw you wrong hander.
I lose a brain cell everytime people ask me:
“How can you write with your left hand”
They haven't heard of left handed people yet xd
@@crazydragy4233 Yep they live under a rock xD
just respond with "My left hand is just smarter than my right"
@@yveltal825 I’ll remember those words and thanks to you I’ll keep my brain cells
Nice stauber pfp!
I trained myself to be ambidextrous over like 6 years.
Main reason was I read it was good for your brain plasticity and gave you an advantage in martial arts (it might, but not much lol).
Never regretted it for a second; I love being able to pick up and do something with whichever hand is closer. 99% of the time I don't notice, but there are a few quiet moments in my life that have made it worthwhile!
The brain is very flexible, it's not an handicap to needessly learn stuff, we don't have limited memories.
where did you get your pfp from? its so nice
I took the same decision, and till now, I can say life's a little easier.
@Fennecalgerie Thanks :)
So the story behind this pfp is rather nsfw.... you've been warned heh.
The story: I essentially found it on a subreddit where they take images from porn, and then photoshop them to make them into SFW memes. One of the images involved this cat's face (probably plastered over a woman's nether regions for innuendo). I thought the cat was so cute that I cropped out the porn part, and drew in the rest of the cat's face, ears, and chest in ms paint and power point.
@@Arclor I wasnt expecting that
What's amazing is that depending on the task, your preferred hand may vary and not always be the same one!
"MinuteEarth with hands isn't real, it can't hurt you"
MinuteEarth with hands:
Its kinda scary ngl
what next? xkcd with hands?! that's the stuff of nightmares!
Honestly, the hand animation was uncalled for. Even in a video about hands that wasn't called for.
Not just minute earth, stickmin in general
Exept henry stickmin
This reminds me of absurd stickman of Sam O Nella.
Don't forget that there are a lot of tasks, such as typing on a keyboard, that require the use of both hands at very high dexterity. When typing, I truthfully cannot perceive a difference between my hands. They both seem similarly dexterous and accurate. This, to me, reinforces the idea that most of the difference is manifested by learned preference - not innate disability.
You can indeed learn to do a two handed task well with seemingly no difference, but one is still considered more dominant. The two aren’t less or greater than each other they just do different tasks! It’s efficient for us to pick roles for hands, it wastes less time doing it for both, but in the case of tasks like typing you’re forced to learn how to do it well with both! I personally type mostly with my right hand, my dominant, I always struggled typing and sharing sides of the keyboard between my two hands so my right pretty much does most of the typing whilst my left is there to support when needed or on occasion.
Some touch-typing websites will break down how quickly you type per-hand, per-finger, and even per-key. I use Typing Club. I find it pretty interesting that, even though I'm right-handed, my left hand is actually faster at typing. I chalk it up to decades of guitar-playing from a very young age.
@@MrMessiah2013 right handed guitar player too. You'd think we would fret notes with our right hand. A little tip: if you think you suck at guitar, try to play it with the opposite hand. Unless you're Michael Angelo Batio, you'll feel better about your playing from your preferred side
Handyness has nothing to do with dexterity, the video explained it well, there are tasks that right handed people usually perform with their left hand even if they arguably require more precision, strength and complicated motions. The best example for this is the guitar or violin, where the left hand must quickly move into complicated configurations requiring every single finger (pinky included) to push the strings, meanwhile the right hand only requires 2-3 fingers and it generally performs the simple task of striking the strings or moving the bow.
The actual difference is a matter of specific tasks. The dominant hand is meant for action, while the other hand is meant for support. This is the reason why joypads always have the action buttons on the right side, while the movement pad is on the left side. Or why the hand that pulls the trigger in rifles is always the dominant hand, even if the weight of the weapon lies on the other hand.
Some tasks cannot be very well be split into action/support, like typing on a keyboard, and anyway through training you can overcome your natural preferred hand (this is what most left handed people have to do), but there's a reason why the Enter key or the period are on the right side, because those are the buttons that execute the sentence you are writing. Meanwhile if you are right handed chances are you are using the left "shift key" to write in upper case an almost never use the right "shift key", because that's more a support role than an action role.
I'm a gamer and I could write 40wpm with my right hand being so bad at typing while my left is so good since it touches the keyboard most of the time. When I a managed to get my right hand to be almost as good as my left at typing, my wpm peaked at 84 and averaged at 65wpm
Me, an ambidextrous: P a t h e t i c
Hello random verified person.
me, an ambisinistrous: extra pathetic
ayy you're the guy who made the discord song :D
congratulations you are inefficient
Le checkmark.
You complete changed the way I look at my left hand! I will no longer take it for granted!
I first realized how important my non-dominant hand was when I realized _it_ knows how to move me around in video games. It is neither less useful nor less dexterous, they're both just specialized to their roles, which seems to work out alright I'd say.
Me too! People keep saying I should switch to the lefty (since I'm a lefty) so i can attack with my left. But I prefer the attacking to my right and the movement to my left
I never thought about that before. When playing DS games I almost prefer to use my weaker right hand for the touch screen. That way I can move with my left far quicker.
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 aay! Someone gets it!
@@enigmatic2878 same here. I can't play on left-handed mode despite being a lefty.
@@enigmatic2878 There's a left hand mode??
me who is horrible with both hands: my goals are beyond your understanding
Ah, ambisinistrous
Same
@@kjl3080 I thought that said ambidisastrous lmao-
Ah, same. My handwriting is chicken scratch 😂
Counters: You are kind of bad at everything.
Pros: You use less energy.
I guess, if we follow the theory of the video.
I’ve always had more sensation and sensitivity on my left side, I was taught to be right handed but became left handed over time as it was easier. This also means I perceive pain more on my left side than right, so most ”grunt” work is done on my right as it’s less strenuous.
I think that when you train yourself to use any hand for any task you understand the task itself better. In case of an injury you might actually need the other hand. Also, it is simply nice to not feel like you have a "useless" hand.
When I fractured my right wrist, I had to learn to use my left hand for daily tasks. And I got pretty good at it, but it required a lot of practice to build that "neural circuit" and strength.
Exactly same thing happened with me just that I broke my Right hand's finger.
I’ll never have these problems since I rarely go outside so I probably won’t fracture any of my limbs anytime soon lol
@@nobody7708 you are missing out on some important vitamin D.
Para cuando el proximo video de tu canal :(
@@astronics u see,there’s currently lockdown in the place I live in so I literally CANNOT go outside.
I tried switching hands for a while and found that while it's relatively easy for my left hand to take over the right hand activities, it's WAY harder for my right hand to figure out how to support. Being a seamless assistant is a whole other level compared to just doing things well.
I presume that's because when ur doing something with one hand all ur attention focus goes to that hand while the supporting hand subconsciously learns its role and position, and over the time of doing the task it becomes muscle memory for the supporting hand without requiring any attention put to it. So when u switch hands and focus on the task at job u naturally put less focus on supporting hand as explained the video it will drain u faster when u focus on both hands.
Dominant hand is the doctor, nondominant is the nurse 😂
@@Link411_My right hand is for writing while my left hand is for driving
@@Bluesonofmanhopefully not at the same time!
@@kaleoscreations8069 Of course but that’s just how my hands are more wired to work
As a left-hander, I can say that you will have an advantage in most sports. I was kickboxing at the time and my trainer told me this
I remember one time I was bored in like third grade, and i made it my mission to use my non-dominant hand for months until I learned to be ambidextrous. I soon realized how hard of a task that was, but not exactly for the reason I thought it would be. Using my dominant hand for simple supporting tasks like holding down the paper while I wrote with my non-dominant hand was actually just as difficult as writing with my non-dominant. I gave up after like a month or two because I had gotten behind in class by being a slow writer but tbh I think the experience did train me to get a little better with swapped hand roles, because everyone compliments how well I can write even with my non-dominant hand.
Fun fact: Due to the designs of castles, left handed swordsmen would outperform right handed swordsmen in enclosed close quarters combat. (Raiding side.)
My husband and I visited a castle in England which had the stairs in reverse because so many people in that family were left handed. (I don't recall the name or where specifically it was.)
@@julietardos5044 Could it have been Ferniehirst castle?
@@hannahherrmann4921 I totally and completely do not remember the name. This was over 20 years ago.
I go fencing and fighting left handed people is soooo difficult
feels good to be left handed
Glad you included that the non dominant hand has tasks its optimized for. There are many activities which my "dominant" hand is far worse at completing.
So true I’m left handed but I can do some things better with my right; like using scissors but I thought that was because I was living in a right hand world
@@cutie1b Same!
Name those activities, please.
@@31redorange08 ever try to move in an 8 pattern with your right hand using WASD?
@@first-last557 Anyone who prefers arrow keys over WASD isn't going to relate to this.
I think, in the modern world, it's not such a bad idea to devote the resources to ambidextrous-ness (I'm not sure how that word really works). My mother injured her dominant arm pretty seriously when she was young and, as a consequence/hidden benefit, became ambidextrous, once she healed. Watching her my whole life, I'm so incredibly jealous of how not useless her "off" hand is in so many tiny ways (not to mention future injuries). Also, as was made apparent to me during my time in the service, eye side dominance is suboptimal. There are ways to train that kind of ambidextrous, too. Why shouldn't we devote a little extra time and a few calories to it?
Im not a native speaker but i think it should be called "ambidexterity"
You really have a good grip on the topic!
“Our other hand isn’t weak. It’s optimized for other tasks.” This applies to many things in life actually. We all have different strengths, and so-called “weaknesses” are just a result of a narrow mindset :)
Its not how it works though, she said one holds the paper and the other writes. Both hands can hold the paper just as efficiently but only one can write well. Its not like the non dominant one is better than the dominant one at some things, it never is.
@@TheFertoledomy left hand is definitely better at fretting playing guitar
@@ST-in7fo Yes i realized after wrting this comment how it didnt apply to all scenarios. I looked down at my hands and realized my left hand couldnt handle my mosue as well as my right and my right was not as good with the keyboard. I guess not for everything but i would still say most things.
@@TheFertoledo You should watch the video again, she said when it comes to stabilizing an object (paper, camera, etc...) the non dominant hand is more efficient than the non dominant hand. I think that's what she was talking about.
@@fadumomohamed2342 Is your dominant hand really worse than the other at stabilizing objects ? not mine.
Me, an ambidextrous person:
*Confused Screaming*
Don't feel bad. You have great a conversation starter. It may also help impress chicks.
You're weird. Not badly so, but interestingly so. You're as weird as a cat that has two different coloured eyes, kind of, which is beautiful 😀
I hope you find your ambidexterity useful 😏
No joke, I had to look up what that's even called in my native tongue when I started figuring out: 'oh shit, I'm not left OR right handed.' DESTROYED some of the other kids in some sort of science experiment in OVERALL time where you were sopped to show how much slower your non-dominant hand was by moving peas with chopsticks... but yeah, the dude's with dominant hands were pretty consistently entire seconds faster then me with that hand.
By the by, it's 'two handed' literally translated from Swedish's 'två hänt.' Always found that direct bluntness a little amusing.
heh, this loser can't collect seeds as efficiently as me
@@Shefetoful *n o m*
So pretty much for efficiency and the fact that our left hands can play a supporting role for our right hands, like stabilization
You really gave it a spin! i like your point of view.
I've decided to strive for ambidextrous, you know, as a redundancy when my dominant hand got chopped off😂
As someone who was forced to turn into an ambidexter after a stroke I can tell ya that you can learn a lot of things with your left hand, but I'd say it only does about 90% as well as my right hand did previously, despite now about 3+ years of daily training, and counting.
really
Wait, why do you and I think alike xD
I also want to be ambidextrous-
If I were you I'd put more effort in making sure my hand doesn't get chopped off.
@@Finkelfunk Yep, that's what I suspecting. 3+ years seems to e long time, but you've using (training) your dominant hand for your whole life, so 90% efficiency is actually extremely fast learning! I know I can't never be truly ambidextrous, so I use the verb "strive"! (Be wishes on you continual recovery!🤗)
"Adorable hyena pictures"
*hyena proceeds to crush a bone with his teeth*
Aaaaand laugh at you while doing it
Still adorable.
*Her, it's likely a she. They made a video on that.
@@The360MlgNoscoper Oh, right. I've even seen it, but forgot. I partially blame my native language which doesn't have gendered pronouns.
but that's cute !
Thanks for the video!
That was really cool to watch.
Let me tell you something, when I started painting, my art was stiff, slow and rigid. So I switched from my right hand to my left. Instead of trying to think about how to paint my left hand freely moved on the canvas and made a solution on to how to paint. I did this for about a week and saw my left hand make solutions to painting and drawing. It freed me from overthinking my hand movements and actually start to paint. I had this abstract but accurate art. When I switched to my right hand I had the solution to draw/ paint better with my hand. I noticed when I tried again I used both concepts from what I did with my left hand and the precision of my right hand.
Your "weaker" side has different solutions to problems that your more rigid side may not have. Your rigid/dominant side is biased AF. What you consider training, I consider habits made over time. When you are free of bias, you can sometimes make choices that aren't weighed down by them. In my case it was art.
I've also noticed feeling in my right hand is different in my left hand. I can't explain it but when I touch the same place on my face, the right hands makes my cheek feel like it's buried in the flesh. While my left hand makes it feel like my cheek is strong and rigid.
Lmfao my handwriting and art is uber shit with *both* hands that the amount of shit is fucking three inch above seat level
This sounds like cap
@@theparrot6516 I'm being serious. My hand writing is absolute doo doo
@@vmxkarelyn_0842 Oof, hope you improve. :D
Well I’m a lefty and when I draw with my right I do soooo bad
TIL we're all technically ambidextrous, just that the "off" hand is used for less noticeable tasks
Ah~true.
And also, Wei WuXian pfp👀
Just say "both-handed".
lolololol true
@@w.d.gaster3261 no
@@w.d.gaster3261 ambidextrous.
Doesn't take long to train your "other"side! And when I broke my right thumb I was glad I had taught myself to be ambidexterous.
I am right handed. I went back to school after an injury to my right arm and couldn't write or type with my right hand. I learned to use a left handed keyboard layout, I learned and practiced writing, mostly technical writing while typing with my left hand. I became pretty good at both. I did learn to hand write with my left. My handwriting was legible, but my brain was never as efficient at communicity that way. It feltlike a two step process. I couldin't really think at write atthe same time the way I could when I wrote with my right. Even after my right arm recovered, typing with my left hand remained the most efficient and effective way for me to communicate. I actually became better at forming ideas using lefthand typing. That was decades ago. In recent years I have finally become skilled at handwriting on my tablet to communicate the way I was good with typing with my left. ~~ So, for me, the method of writing has to be matched with the correct hand for may ideas to flow and for me to effectively communicate. ~ Interestingly, the way the ideas flow depends on the method of writing. With handwriting (right handed ) my thought process is different. With the left (typing) I'm great at getting all the ideas down and then organizing them. With the right (handwriting), my thought flow is more limited by ordering and organizing the ideas and choosing the best wordly before I write. I have worked to improve my right-hand writing, and I've gotten better. But, it's still different.
"You only have the brain power to use one hand for complex tasks"
*piano players scoff*
I mean its not much different than gamers using wasd
Exactly, because that statement is false, we are just lazy to train both sides to do stuff, also it does not have any practical use
@ShiKeiki HaniYamaxanadu from danganronpa or something else? Because from the name Kaede i can NOT think of anything else besides danganronpa
*musicians* *
@@ritwikreddy5670 It is
As a cellist, the idea that the "weaker" hand is optimized for different tasks makes sense. While my right arm is definitely the more powerful and dexterous of the two, my left fingers move faster and with more precision. I have to actively focus more to make my right fingers do the same movements I can do with my left without thinking.
do you think thats because your left hand is actually faster or thats just because thats how you learned to play?
@@kenners4975 I suspect it's a combination of both. When playing the cello, you use your dominant hand for bowing and your non-dominant hand for fingering. Faster fingers mean quicker and smoother changes between notes.
I'm learning the cello in school, and I see what you mean
Being left handed I write and eat with my left hand and in many tasks am left handed in. But things like the Wii for instance or on my computer right now with mouse and keyboard control I do with a right hand dominant style. So from my experience you do indeed have a dominant hand but you can train your off hand to be dominant in tasks you believe a right/left hand dominancy would be better in.
I did notice though my right hand was stronger but my left hand was more dexterous and if I was paying real close attention it would appear my right hand is slightly thicker then my left hand which is slightly thinner. Its also why I would where throwing is concerned throw things with my right hand instead of my left.
Woah this is weird my nondominate is faster too suddenly and im a pianist
I had to learn to use directional keys with my right hand for a retro game. It was a very difficult to learn lol. I am too used to WASD with left hand.
I really think it's just learned and reinforced. I learned to do some things with my right hand, and others with my left. I don't know if in doing so I've robbed myself of an overall more coordinated dominant hand, but I'm fine with this.
People who plays instruments, I don’t have such weakness.
Thanks to playing the violin, I have learned to use my left hand more. I'm currently trying to make my left handwriting be good. So far, it's almost on the same level as my right hand, but I need a little work for it. By the way, my normal handwriting (without using cursive) isn't as pretty so it was easy to catch up, and it's been easy so far to try and make both normal and cursive be good. I have been focusing on my right-hand cursive much more, which is making my normal handwriting be not as good, but I'm also working on it.
I play piano and because I am left handed, i can play with my left hand easier but it isn’t too bad
As a violinist, after learning to play violin, now I can use both my hands equally
I play two but I write worse than a one year old with my left hand
yeah, in the violin id say that the left hand has it harder, w all the shifts and the muscle memory it takes to play decently, so its vv cool to have such advantage
Interesting fact: handedness also had a role to play in hand-to-hand combat. People are trained to block attacks from the left side, because the majority of fighters are right-handed. So when a southpaw comes along, they often beat out their righty opponents, or at least gave them a nasty surprise. This sort of thing inspired that scene in Princess Bride. You know the one.
It also made its way into castle design. Towers would typically wind clockwise when going up, meaning that any attack from a righty would go right into the column in the middle. Meanwhile, a right-handed defender has a clearer line of attack *and* has the advantage of height.
well, as a 'southpaw' (never head that term in my life) that has been doing martial art for 5+ years, I think I should start a new side hustle.
Wait, wouldn't a left hander also hit the column? Since you're facing your opponent with the opposite handedness it means you're mirroring each other- hence the left hand would also be at the side where the column is (assuming the lefty has the high ground). Correct me if i'm wrong
Right-hand: advantage facing downstairs (defender), disadvantage facing upstairs (attacker)
Left-hand: disadvantage facing downstairs (defender), advantage facing upstairs (attacker)
RtDef vs LfAtk, neither hitting column
LfDef vs RtAtk, both hitting column@@vittoriolasam912
LfDef vs LfAtk, defender hitting column, attacker free
RtDef vs RtAtk (majority case / as designed), defender free, attacker hitting column
@@thelumitesystem3004You've never heard of "southpaw?" It's been around for ages. Rocky is a famous fictional southpaw.
No it wouldn’t. The defender wouldn’t hit the column, but a raider would. Lefties because they are mirrored would cancel that advantage, as well as supplying their own advantage. The lefty would be at a disadvantage if they had a high ground.
Yes it is true the "weaker side" is actually just trained to be better at different task. I've noticed because I'm right-handed, I always hold trays with my left hand while grabbing things to put on to the tray with my right hand, and my left hand is way better at keeping trays horizontal and steady than my right hand when I experimented to hold the tray with my right hand. It is especially evident if I was putting things like glasses of drinks or soup, which can get pretty heavy in large amounts and need to be very balanced to avoid spilling. It was a surprising finding.
Very handy video, thank
I NEVER HAVE OR WANT TO SEE STICK FIGURES WITH FINGERS EVER AGAIN
Jk, the great video made up for it :)
Then you would not want to see henry stickman
@@Stickman_Productions Henry has a vibe that I can't explain which makes it more suitable for him.
I've always drawn stick figures with hands since I was a kid, didn't knew it was weird tbh
„Gorrilas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring dexterity.“ Funny you should say that because dexterity originally means right-handedness.
True, so……… fine motor control………
gorillas generally use their right hand for tasks requiring their right hand
@@snugget7601 lmao
@@snugget7601 😂
I got mad at this video 2 years ago and have trained my left hand for a bunch of stuff since. It makes daily life so much easier having a choice in which hand I use for something. It's honestly just more efficient to use your left hand sometimes, like for a specific angle, grip, putting away dishes, etc.
I always use my right hand, except for some reason when I dry my glasses with a cloth, I use my right hand to hold it and left hand to dry it
Me, who eats and writes with my left, bats and throws with my right, and plays tennis and badminton ambidextrously: [confused screaming]
Are you left handed by nature? Because what you described is called "cross-dominance" where one side is preferred for some tasks and the other side for others, it's very common in left-handed people, as often times we are forced to navigate in a right-handed world, and it's often easier to just learn to use a tool right-handed then to track down a left-handed variant
Hand switch trick shots guy
I can hear the hall/ court going OOOOO!!
@@Deathnotefan97 Yeah I'm a leftie by nature. And that does make sense; I know when I was learning how to play the trumpet finding a left-handed trumpet would've been a pain so I just learned to play with my right, for example.
I'm right handed, but I use knifes with my left and skate with the left and jump with the right unlike most of my classmates. But I write, cut, throw, kick, ... with my right which is weird.
In PE classes, I had to jump with my left foot when we played handball because I had to throw with my right hand. So annoying
@@Deathnotefan97 cut to me grabbing right hand scissors with my left hand. Left handed people also get into more household accidents because tools are made for right handed people.
I never doubted that "it's good to have a weekend"...
Lol yeah
nice
same dude
the door is to your right.
@@toshio3772 I think he already “left”
My grandma (god bless her painful departed soul, I loved her very much) was still of very old German way of being raised so when I was a kid and natural left-handed she forced me to write with my right hand.. now I have terrible writing.. do tons of stuff with my left hand (like brushing teeth) but still the right hand is my main hand and it often cripples me to perform.. at so many things.. from simple writing to using tools and especially on the computer.
i'm left handed and a few weeks ago i tried writing with my right hand and realized just how much more control i had
like yeah my handwriting and drawing was still super unsteady but i felt like my lines actually went where i wanted them to go instead of just being approximate (an issue i have with my dominant hand)
Me, an ambidextrous person: *What has I been doing this whole time?*
i dont think it applies to ambidextrous people, but hey, even if it did, people would be jealous to be able to use both hands.
You are spec'd to have a backup in case something happens
@@emcaco That is how I been looking at it this whole time. This did end up making my hands weaker than most people's hands, but hey, I got a backup.
@@MikaePark-6 that's a pretty handy way of putting it, you know. righty, lefty, ambi.
Me : *laughs in right handedness*
When I had a teacher tell me I was "writing on the wrong side of the page" when I was just using the side that didn't strain the binder rings against my wrist, I almost rewired my brain in order to sock her in the jaw using the hand I wasn't writing with
I know! I hate when teachers say that!
That should be a crime! Your teacher deserves to go to jail or at least pay a fine for that! Of course, teachers as a whole also deserve higher wages, but sometimes people just don't get what they deserve.
Or you can just use your brain and take it out of the binder….
Or hole punch the other side and watch them all squirm
@@folklore_of_beth so you are gonna carry a bunch of loose papers everywhere
For writing and other precise tasks I prefer my right hand, but if I have to hold something relatively heavy but not heavy enough to require both hands, I'm most likely going to use my left hand. It's just much more used to holding such things while my right hand is much more used to more precise tasks like opening the door.
Im going to start using this analogy in the future
"Gorillas use their right hand for tasks that require dexterity"
Well I hope so Kate, they need to reserve their left for being sinister!
Ah, the Latin jokes, gotta love 'em
what i dont get it
@@heberthr.6978
'Dexterity' comes from the Latin word for right, and 'sinister' the Latin word for left
@@thatmarchingarrow oh nice thanks
Clever girl
0:50 Kate T-posing to assert dominance
The guitar example in particular is one that always baffled me, since generally the more dextrous job in playing one falls to the left hand if you're right handed, and the right hand I would put more as the support or sturdy motion. I do wonder if we could innately be better if we learned string instruments flipped to what we tend to now, but most instruments are built with right handedness in mind, and they tend to be less expensive. Unless you're willing to Hendrix it
As a lefty (and one of three in a family of five), none of us _ever_ bothered trying to learn how to mouse with our dominant hand. And once two-button mice became standard, it wasn't worth the effort of constantly switching which button the OS considers the primary one. It was simply easier to learn to mouse right-handed to begin with.
I've become ambidextrous overtime because I am left handed but the world was created for right handed people. So eventually you learn to use both your hands.
so true.
Same, my mother was a lefty at birth. But because she learned housewife things from her mother as a kid. She learned to do everything with her right hand. So I didn’t know she was originally a lefty until I was 16. So she became ambidextrous too, because of right-hand dominant society.
Same here
@@MM-tf4xt
Racist right-handed world >:(
Same
Me with no hands: *”I truly am optimized”*
Ah yes
Ah yes
Hold up, how did you type without hands
@@OjamaBestDeck psychic powers
@@OjamaBestDeck "Hold up, how did you t̶y̶p̶e̶ wipe without hands" 😋
From my understanding, especially about the last point, is that there's also something in it between cooperation and competition. We live in a right-handed world, and everything being built for right handed people means we can co-operate more. We can utilise the same tools in the same way as other people around us, which is helpful in a species like humans who are very social and rely on 'fitting in'. Left-handed people are built for competition - there's a reason there's a disproportionate number of lefties in high level martial arts, fencing, etc where doing something unexpected gives you the advantage!
After not being able to find a left twisting runner bean plant. I looked into local trees, it got very interesting. Most twist one way, some the other, a few switch directions mid life.
In drumming I always thought it was weird that the off hand gets used for all the detailed and more irregular rhythms (like snare ghost notes). Then I realized that my strong hand (right) had been playing steady constant rhythms on the hihat on total autopilot for YEARS and it made sense.
The strong hand has independence so I can devote attention to the other hand. Of course rudiments are specifically meant for breaking this need, but I'm not a percussionist. I'm just a saxophonist who drums sometimes.
Same idea with the guitarists confused on why they don't fret with the right; more precision is needed for actually strumming in time than fretting (or fingerpicking where's it's obviously no contest). Although plenty of lefties learn to play the more typical right-handed guitar with no issue, so it's not a major difference.
Also when starting to learn songs on the drums, you usually learn to play 8ths, 16ths, and swing patterns with the right (& move between cymbals/snare with faster hi hat rhythms), while the left just plays snare on 2 & 4.
On the sword point, left-handedness can be a serious advantage, I have a left-handed friend I used to spar with, and I can say with firsthand experience, it is much harder to get used to due to the different ways your opponent can move because their actions are mirrored
Deftly world a sword and shield was a wonderful unexpected rhyme! Thank you!
Thanks, my hand is in fact very weak and I did not know this. You see, it's always literally shaking when I'm trying to do any other task and I just can't get it to stop. But when it eventually does I'm always relieved.
I'm cross-handed. My left is preferred for some tasks, and my right is preferred for other tasks.
Left hand - using (knife, scissors, razor, comb, toothbrush, sports equipment, towel), shooting (basketball, gun), throwing accurately, holding cups/bottles, opening jars, punching, carrying bags, jacking off, grabbing nearby/small stuff, vacuuming
Left foot - kicking
Right hand - writing/typing, painting, throwing for power, grabbing far/long stuff, wiping butt, stacking, arranging, decorating, using (fork, chopsticks, tweezers, whisk, remote control, computer mouse), scratching itch
Equal preference - pouring liquids, pushing buttons, using a spoon
Same here but different tasks
Same
I was reading this like it was normal then I read “jacking off” and everything changed
Allegedly, being cross-handed is common among autists. Which makes me really curious about why, though I assume it is because autists have above average issues with motor control in our youth.
Same here, had to train myself in my late-teen to use my left hand forcefully in order to "save some work" for my problematic right hand wrist...
It took a couple of years to get used to it, but now I can't deny that being cross handed is quite convenient...
"There's something I want to tell you."
"What?"
"I'm not left handed either."
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
@@DemonClo lore?!??! Ima call the theory man to figure this out!
@@DemonClo Inconceivable!
@@DemonClo popcorn popcorn , who wants some popcorn only for $5 today
@@DemonClo LMAO THIS IS SO RANDOM I LOVE IT!?!?!
When I worked at a commercial greenhouse my left hand was stronger for trays while I use my right for deftly grabbing plants and putting them in said trays.
I had two cats with different handedness. One would prefer his left paw for swiping at things, the other his right. The left-handed cat was the smarter of the two and also lived longer, nearly making it to 15. We were never sure about the age of the right-handed cat, though, but he died about 6 years before the left-handed one.
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This is actually quite fascinating. I'm a lefty - can't so much as hold a pen in the right hand. But I've noticed quite a bit recently that if holding two things of different weights, the heavier of the two would be in right, for things like throwing or controlling, while the lighter of the two is in the left for more dexterous or fine coordination. It's weird, considering I've never noticed this before until about a month or so ago.
same!
It’s so weird to me that as a righty, other people cannot do things like holding a pencil with their right hands.
For some reason my hands literally just swap roles when the other one gets tired of theirs
:o
thats so cool!
@@cryptidinthewoods7262 wait isnt it normal or something?
@@alostsoul2553 i mean i could swap the roles too,but whatever i am doing would get really messy then,so i usually take a break in general.
if its for example eating with a spoon and your other hand,thats cool,but things like idk sewing,writing or drawing are too messy lol xD
I do that a lot too
This is so good for my mental
I went through a phase as a kid trying to do tasks left-handed in case I broke my right arm or something. (The one that "stuck" was brushing my teeth.) Actually, something much more chronic happened: tendonitis, and I took college notes left-handed my senior year.
So it must be better to have two weak hands right! I must be a legend!
lol
It reminds me of a growing trend in silicon manufacturing, where a high power core has a low power cores for background processes, making the whole thing as powerful, but more efficient
This only works for reduced instruction set computing though
shes like that one friend who comforts u even though ur pretty much useless
I really do feel like our hands are just optimized for different things. I have trouble trying to do things with my left hand. But when it comes to things I typically do with my left hand I was shocked to notice how hard of a time I would have doing it with my right hand.
*Ambidextrous people:* We have no such thing as weak hands
I used to be ambidextrous. But they made me unlearn it when I was a kid.
@Stella-fc9xn Once you are ambidextrous, you are ambidextrous forever. I figured out I was ambidextrous and I could swap hands with each task I could do. People have taught me to be right-handed, and now I could write with my left hand and right hand at the same time.
A buddy of mine is ambidextrous. He spent a lot of time as a kid trying to learn to play piano, but he couldn't figure out how to separate his hands; they would both just wind up playing the same thing. On the plus side, he had a lot of early success in baseball, being a switch-hitter in little league.
My left and right hand are used depending on the task, like left hand for writing, tennis, shooting, using a phone and picking stuff up. Whereas I use my right hand for batting, bowling, golf, archery, throwing, catching and using the mouse.
I've been practicing *a lot* of drums in the past 18 months, focusing *a lot* on my weak left side. Over time, my perception of my left has changed significantly, like it's more of its own entity, an entity I can control with precise intent, than just that side that is not that skilled enough to do things. As a matter of fact, my left went beyond my right in some aspects and I unconsciously lead things with the left, which I never would've done before, for simple lack of ability. The body - the brain specifically - is one mind bogglingly versatile and adaptable bio machine.
Great video! Many moons ago, my high school Spanish teacher told us that her grammar school teachers frowned on left-handedness and insisted that all the students learn to write with their right hand. As a lefty, she had trained herself to do that. As a result, she could write with either hand from left to right, or as a mirror image from right to left. She showed us on the blackboard... and the backwards writing was flawless!
I like how you worded it - "many moons ago".
Playing the guitar is an interesting one - which requires more skill, the frets or the strum? 🤔
Imagining trying to fret with my dominant hand feels much the same as trying to write with my non-dominant one.
Fretting or fingerpicking, that's a real matchup
It depends on style. Also depends on previous musical experience. Strumming a steady beat is surprisingly difficult. All I can say is that I'm sure the guitar was designed like that for a reason, and there are left handed guitars, so I guess strumming is harder.
I guess it depends on the person? I struggle a bit with the pick..As I have to keep a rhythm but the strings require certain complex movements too. It’s kind of a tossel on which is worse and likely also depends on how skilled you are with certain things!
I'm right handed but when I tried to learn the guitar I was astonished that someone thought fretting would be an easy job for the left hand. It requires such strength and such awkward positions, while the right hand is just vibing and keeping a beat or following a 1 dimensional pattern of strumming. Maybe if I got a left handed guitar I would actually learn something in the end 😂
@@Ruslan-S Just Hendrix it and see if you're any better that way.
I'm left handed and got tired long ago by the disadvantages, especially in writing. So I started training my right, for years. Now I can write with both hands which is very cool to impress students when writing on the blackboard. But I can only use on hand at once, the other goes in stanby. Also each hand had it's own style. I think training both sides in every aspect gets you better "wired" and you train your brain to use more of it's capacity. Learning new skills is always positive, I don't see a reason why not to apply that for your "unconscious" side. It's like telling a piano player that it's not good to play with both hands or typing on a keyboard. I love practicing touch typing, gets me into a flow state. Enjoy and practice to get more balanced.
Bro I want to be able to use both left and right that's such a cool advantage!
@@WildArtistsl Just get started and be very, very patient.
Observe how you do whatever with your strong hand and than try to mirror it to the other one..
Simply holding a pen is very hard in the beginning. If you want to learn writing do some hand writing exercises first.
As a drummer, it's really obvious how the different limbs end up being useful for different things. You also get into the issue between autonomous and repetitive tasks and more conscious tasks, tasks requiring speed and tasks requiring force, independent tasks and tasks that need to coordinate with other limbs.
I like being ambidextrous. I paint for a living and I can paint with both hands. Comes in handy in tight quarters.
I'm right-handed and i can do that fairly well too, though there's a limit
1:49 - If anyone was confused like me: "Sailfish have been reported to use their bills for hitting schooling fish [...] Identification of individual sailfish based on the shape of their dorsal fins identified individual preferences for hitting to the right or left side." -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish
I was thinking about this the other day because I was doing some task I always do with my non-dominant hand with my dominant hand and struggling, then switched hands and it was easy.
I am somewhat ambidextrous and the efficiency thing seems to make sense for me as I think as an infant I was left dominant. But of course, school teaches you to write with your right hand. My handwriting was always worse than my peers and I became an adult who writes and draws with their right hand but can't open jars, tins, or bottles with it. I swing a sword, dry dishes, and often eat with my left hand. Most menial and strength based tasks are exclusively left handed so it makes sense to me that I found writing such a struggle as a child when I was using the hand with less training.
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Be kind to others, because kindness is contagious
Say that to the Swedes.
Yes but a good type of contagious
They always say "kill them with kindness", but all I got is this rusty old saw.
When I first started learning violin a few years ago, my parents were confused as to why you didn’t play it on a different side if you were left handed.
Other than people’s bows not bumping against each other, now it’s way easier to stay pressing the strings down with my left while moving the bow with my right as opposed to the opposite. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to learn and retain both ways
Now I wonder if it works a similar way or not for learning multiple languages
ive considered learning how to play violin with the wrong hands even though im right handed just for the funni lol
I'm right handed, but I have been training myself to be ambidextrous for a long time, though I still have a long way to go:
It definitely pays off, my efficiency has greatly increased for daily activities. Sure, it takes a lot of effort and time to develop strength and ability, it is also training for your dominant (for those weak hand tasks) and it can be confusing at first since now you rely too on your "weak" hand. But if you commit to it, you'll reach a point in which using both hands starts to feel natural, the "which hand I use" doubt will go away, and only then you'll notice the efficiency. It just takes time, be patient.
What's real weird is cross-dominance. When one eye is stronger but the other hand is. You end up with different tasks preferring different sides when most people prefer the same. For instance, I'm slightly less awful at batting "left handed" despite being right handed, because I'm left-eyed.
you can say it comes in Handy.
You guys make topics easy to Grasp.
I might need some Pointers.
Its the Write time to stop these puns.
somebody is gonna punt you to the next dumpster
Thand you
U were being impawsible
U did the *right* thing when u *left* writting it
If you could just put your finger on it. Give this person a hand! Stay palm.
I love this video!