Thank you doc, great video! I am left eye dominant and right handed as well, find a lot of difficulties when it comes to some activities as you said in the video.
As a shooter , I’m right handed, left eye dominate. When I lineup the sights, everything is fine. But when I’m practicing maneuvering behind cover, and my pistol isn’t directly below my left eye (like normal) , I noticed I get double vision , and will see two of my sites, until I either close one or, or move my head and line up the sights under my dominate eye. It’s almost like each eye is sending different pictures to my brain, and my brain is trying to combine them, so I end up with two of everything because both eyes are trying to focus. If that makes semse
I have the same issue. It is more troublesome when shooting a shotgun, especially at targets moving from left to right, or right to left. Is there a way to "train" or strengthen my less dominant eye??
Same Here Even Tho I Don't Shoot Guns I Am A Right Handed Left Eye Dominant And I Sometimes See Double Images But It Clears Into One Image When I Focus Hard But The Image I See Gets Blurry If I Focus Hard To Be More Exact I Used The Triangle Method To Find Out Tho When I Used The Thumb Method Answer Was Same But When I Focused On The Distant Object To Position My Thumb I Saw 2 Fingers Instead of 1 And When I Focused On The Thumb I Saw 2 Objects I Was Trying To Focus On, And If I Focus Hard As Mentiond Above I See Only 1 Finger And 1 Object As I Should But It Gets Blurry
I was right-eye dominant before I had a detached retina a few years ago. Since my right eye never recovered fully, it would see objects about 20% farther away, giving me a horrible double vision. I've recently been trying to become left-ey dominant and have found that covering my damaged eye for a few hours per day with a patch, my left eye is becoming the dominant one and some of the double vision is slowly improving. I am right handed and have always been right-eye dominant. So far this training has been amazing and I hope it continues to improve. Hope this might be helpful to someone else suffering from the same problem.
Thank you so much for this. I target shoot as a secondary hobby, and have been plagued by terrible groupings. I’ve spent thousands on different pistols, ammunition, classes, you name it. For whatever reason my eyes just didn’t seem to play well with the target. However, I just watched this video, and found out that I am left eye right hand dominant. Just got back from the range with my 18 year old Walther P99, and ended up tearing away the bullseye.
I am an NRA Instructor and eye dominance is critical to shooting well. Teaching it can be a challenge, especially with children. You presented several variations of the method we usually use. Thanks for the additional options!
For me, making the triangle and pulling it forward made the test more apparent. Playing pool I didn't pay attention to eye dominance. For years, I always looked down the barrel of the cue with my right eye. I recently found I was left eye dominate. Wow, what a difference. I wish Al Gore would have discovered the internet 20 years earlier.
Right eye. I just had my yearly examination. It was interesting to find out how my vision has changed/not changed over the year. One of my eyes is 20/15...probably the right. I’m enjoying this channel a lot! I’m a librarian and pretty much on the computer all the time and also switching back and forth between near and far reading for patrons that come in. Keep up the great work! 🙂
whenever i search for anything about eyes ..you are here with a great video with all the info i want &more in a very direct and simple way...you are amazing doc !
I am left eye dominant, yet I am right handed. I didn't even know about that but still became a archery champion, a lot of thanks goes to my best friend for his assistance I learning, training and tips.
I'm right-handed and my dominant eye seems to be the left one. My right eye is much blurrier for distance but he seems to be a little better to near than the other eye.
@@DoctorEyeHealth If I use the triangle method then I see the object when my left eye is closed. But if I use the thumb method the object is covered when my right eye is closed. What's the explanation to this?
None of these work for me. I just see double my hand, or double my thumb or whatever, and can "choose" which one I'm using to use to centre or blot out. So I can "make" my left eye dominant, or my right eye dominant. But if I need to close one eye (like when it's very sunny), I always close my right and use my left because it feels more comfortable.
I'm down this eye dominance rabbit hole now and have the exact same answer, to no avail. It's very frustrating. I don't get it. I don't understand how everyone else gets it and it's so simple to them. If I focus on a distant object and hold up my thumb, my thumb appears twice in my vision and I can see through both thumbs. I can then "choose" which thumb to cover the object with. If I focus on my thumb, the object farther away now appears twice, and I "choose" which one to cover with my now opaque thumb. Same thing with the triangle hand hole. Either two objects if I'm focusing on my hands or two holes if I'm focusing on the object.
@@zacharybroussard3765 that does happen to me but in these comments I did found a way which includes checking which eye do you instinctively close when you suddenly go to bright place after coming out of dark room. My instinct closes my right eye, so ig I am left eye dominant (although it's dependent on instinct, because if you start thinking consciously you can close either one) But apart from this thing I can always chose which eye to look from and have almost the same vision the both of them
I am right eye dominant and I remember that I did that with the triangle as I was a little child, now I an focus better and know on what eye I should rely more on, thank you very much! 💫
100% LEFT EYE DOMINANT. Love your channel! I’m an Optometric Technician and always get a neat tidbit of info from your videos I can take back to work with me. PS, I’m always down to collab! 👁👁
This has helped me with fps games like VALORANT, i focus better with my right eye so i have the weapons on the left on my screen so my crosshair is always aiming where im aiming it at. Thank you for showing this test!
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We did this test in the Police Academy to find our dominant eye. Guys this is EXACTLY correct with what to do & you MUST do this with learning shooting.
I'm confused, with the first triangle and closing eye method, i did it multiple times and both eyes ended up being the dominant one. When moving the triangle to my face, it went straight into the middle and on my nose. Finally, with the thumb method, when I put my thumb in front of the distant object, if i focussed on the object i'd see 2 of my thumb and the dominant eye depended on which version of my thumb i moved in front of the object. And when focussing on my thumb, the distant object became to blurry to make out where i should place my thumb. Equal eyes? No dominance? Idk
I was once right eye dominant (to the point I hardly saw anything with my left eye), because my left eye had hypermyopia. Since wearing glasses, I have now become left eye dominant!
Thank you so much for making this, very helpful. I’m a newer shooter and I thought that maybe I’ve been using the wrong eye. Afraid not, gotta keep practicing.
Awesome vid 👍 I'm right handed but do not have a dominate eye, dunno if its because I had LVC but, not having a dominate eye has caused me quite a bit of trouble as I do several types of competitive shooting. Since identifying the problem, I have to shoot with a piece of scotch tape on my safety glasses over my left eye to occlude it, but not alter the amount of light it receives because of sympathetic reflex. Struggled for years until I had a friend whos an assistant at a local eye doctor, ask me some questions while we were shooting skeet, and he was able to identify that I was struggling to see one sight picture and subsequently didn't have a dominate eye. The scotch tape makes all the difference in the world, it greatly improved my game, and I'm super grateful for the knowledge eye doctors have and share.
My left eye is farsighted and my right eye is nearsighted. Found out both eyes has astigmatism. Now I have to worry the floaters and flashes signs of retina detachment. Now both eyes has foaters. I have seen a retina specialist. My retina in both eyes look good no detachment. I'm right-handed and left eye dominate.
@@krzysztofwitkowski4742 bro what do you mean by left footed or right footed? how it'll become an advantage? I'm an athlete btw and a left handed with a right dominant eye.
@@DoctorEyeHealth It's going really good. The tumor from ocular melanoma was discovered on New Year's Eve and on February 22nd of this year I had my left eye removed. I kept all of my depth perception and I went right back to surfing and doing all the things I did in the past. There's only two bummer things. One is my tumor was a class 2, which means my chance of it metastasizing in my liver or lungs over the next 5 years is about 72%. That's what makes ocular melanoma so insidious. Losing the eye was not that big of a deal. Psychologically that's the easy part. The other bummer is mt persistent Phantom Eye syndrome. I see a translucent kaleidescope pattern across my field of vision all the time. It's most noticeable when I'm tired or I'm relaxing my eyes. And it's less noticeable when I'm concentrating on something. Hopefully it will go away someday. But overall life is good and I'm kicking ass with one eye!
Hello I have what's called amblyopia aka lazy eye no my eyes don't look lazy but it technically means one of my eyes is very weak because from a young age my brain learned how to supress this eye so my whole life I could only see with one eye basically but a few months back I forced myself to wear my glasses with sunglasses over them and cover my good eye completely and a month later I took it off and now I have binocular vision and can see with both eyes now but as to this video I'm cross eyed dominate (left eye/right handed)
The dominant eye has more neural connections in the brain. This could be due to many reasons. Lesser prescription in that eye, more use of that eye starting at a young age..perhaps better alignment of that eye during the first few months of life. There is also some evidense about the shape of blue-cone free zones within the retina... In theory, it would seem likely that you could change the dominance...but probably very difficult to do. Like training yourself to be left handed after 20 years of being right handed, and vise versa.
Right eye dominant! By a lot... should I be concerned about how big the gap is between the dominance of my right and left eye? when I did the test with the clock on the wall it seemed like my left eye was way off the mark
When I'm not wearing glasses, my left eye is dominant. I can function pretty well without glasses - I can drive without them, it's just more tiring, etc. My right eye is however definitely my worse eye - I have mild myopia in both eyes, but in my left eye I have barely-there astigmatism (pretty much the lowest measurable amount), but in my right eye I have astigmatism that's actually noticeable (still relatively mild though). I find that when I'm wearing my glasses - meaning, my eyes have pretty much equal sight - I no longer have a consistently dominant eye; it's pretty random what results an eye dominance test will give me. Also, if I do the triangle test and it shows my right eye as dominant, I can unfocus and then refocus my eyes so that my left eye becomes the dominant one instead (and vice versa).
When I do the triangle test I have two triangles for each eye and sometimes it’s my left and sometimes my right eye weird. I guess it just depends one if you move your hand left or right, doesn’t work really :/
You know...i know exactly what you mean. I have had that same thing too. Maybe you don't have a dominant eye? If you were going to aim at something...which eye would you close?
Mine naturally turn first to the left..but when I usually play fps games like counter strike....it felt too weird to play left handed and comfortably play as right handed. Is this alright?!!
I do this exact thing too, depends which out of focus triangle you concentrate on. I play darts and I’m right hand but may be left eye dominant but when I do all the tests I can make an argument for both. Maybe being non dominant is more common than previously thought
Does seeing double of your hand/thumb when focusing on the distant object indicate no eye dominance? Have always been like this and don't know which of the 2 thumbs to cover the distant object with.
I'm left eye dominant, and right handed which is why I probably got whacked in the mouth trying to catch a softball one day long ago. I remember being so sure I was going to catch it, and so shocked when I didnt! (🤪) I just did the test and was surprised by this, but when I was in grade school I trained myself to write both right and left handed, AND I am pretty good at doing precision things that need eye hand coordination - which is now escaping me the more I develop presbyopia.
My eye seems to switch dominance on how tired one of them is, although I can't find much on the internet, I've done the eye dominance test multiple times and got different outcomes.
This doesn't make sense to me. When you focus on a distant object you get 2 blurry versions of your hands in front of you, allowing you to make either eye dominant. Take the thumb test. If you give a thumbs up in front of you, as soon as you focus on a distant object you will see 2 thumbs in front of you. If you align one of those "copies" with the distant object it can appear as if you're left eye dominant but if you align the other thumb "copy" with the object it will appear as if you're right eye dominant. Can you explain this inconsistency with the test? This also applies to the hand triangle test but it's harder to explain in a comment.
i found out i was cross eye dominant when i joined the Australian military, they handed me a rifle set up righthanded and i kept trying to sight the rifle with my left eye. shooting right side with both eyes open was almost impossible when i was learning... id never even heard of a dominant eye until my section commander called me "one of those freaks" ;)
I find it impossible to frame the object in the center without focusing on one eye. Does that mean I’m cross-eyed dominant? Edit: I tried focusing on my hands rather than focusing on the object and it worked!
Good channel. Both my eyes are dominant but I probably use left a bit more, plus I'm also ambidextrous (born right handed but can write with left just as good), doing things better with both. I'm also ambipedal (both footed). Father is right hand and right footed and Mother is left handed and left footed. Crazy!! My Eye Doctor several years ago said I've got the best eyes he's ever seen in his 30 years of profession.
@@DoctorEyeHealth Definitely find out. It also has a lot to do with what hemispehere of the brain you think from. Most likely growing up you thought more from the right hemisphere like a left hander, which deals more with creative and spacial elements than textbook and detail..even though you're right handed. Probably another reason why your dominant eye is your left. The aim really should be to train any less dominant eye, and hand with writing and throwing, and foot with kicking,
I am right handed and I am very left eye dominant. I have a astigmatism in my right eye which is probably why my brain prefers to utilize my left eye more. It definitely affects sports where you are sideways, such as tennis and baseball. I teach tennis and I am perplexed why some students just can not hit a one hand backhand well. So many good athletes can't that I suggest learning a two hand backhand instead since anyone can learn that, and you are less sideways. I can hit a solid one hand backhand with my non dominant arm but not my dominant. It is because of my eyes. Cross dominance.
thats what it's like for me. but i think thats because im near sighted in my right eye but my left eye has astigmatism so im right eye dominant but its blurry with that eye
Same here, i think I've used my dominance eye too much in watching tv and in using my phone, I think my dominance eye received all the radiation and become blurry.
This sounds kinda like bs. I can choose which eye my mind "sees" through, and even if you arent aware of it you can too. Your mind does it automatically when you block vision in one eye, but you dont have to block your vision to do this. You can choose to focus with either eye, or even with both at once. Hold your thumb out and look past them into the distance, you'll see two thumbs. The same is true for the triangle method as well, you'll see two wholes in your hand(s). This one tricks the brain a little though and melds the two perspectives of your hands into a single hand with extra parts. Practice changing your minds focus on either thumb or both simultaneously, switching between the options. By blocking an object with one of the apparent thumbs you change which eye will still be able to see when one is closed.
For some reason when I try to focus on something that’s far away I usually close my right eye so I can see better which is weird cause I’m right handed
This video was made a while ago, but I still want to comment this. When doing these dominant eye tests my right eye is dominant, but when aiming through a scope I use my left eye since I can see much better and its easier to keep my left eye open rather than my right eye, and this confuses me since your usually supposed to look though a scope with your dominant eye. (I'm right handed)
I don't understand how the triangle test proves anything... I can look at something and find one eye dominant but if I move my hand to the side then suddenly the other eye is "dominant"
When i close my left eye its not only off center but its completely out of the triangle, such a huge difference. Does this mean anything else in particular ?
you can also tell eye dominance by the ear dominance never encountered a person with a different ear dominance to their eye also I noticed a pattern since I got interested in eye dominance most lefties are right eyed
Honestly, I can't figure out which eye is the dominant one. The triangle test seems to suggest the right eye, but the thumb test indicates left eye. I'm left handed on a number of things..writing, baseball (both hitting and throwing).... but then right-handed for guitar, golf, and hockey. Seems a bit strange to me.
When I attempt this I just see a double image of the hand triangle. I can't center the object in both triangles so I put the object in the intersecting area of the two triangles, and as I start closing up the triangle, the intersecting area between the two gets smaller and smaller and inevitably I get to the point where I have to decide which triangle stays with the object and picking one over the other just seems arbitrary
My right eye has exotropia but the school evalation in January 2021 said it is my dominant eye . I thought - Left eye will be dominant eye because I have exotropia in my right eye. Tests (expect for magnify glasses) - I have got both eyes as dominant . Did I used any correctives ? Glasses - nearsightedness for both lenses and corrective lenses in my right eyes . Patching (2012- 2013 , 2020) Vision therapy (2012- 2013) I didn't have any problems for seeing things far until I was 11 years old . I know also had poor depth perception 6th : no depth perception 7th : 1 depth perception I do belief it is a higher depth perception because I am no longer scared of excualavators or stairs . I not perfect depth perception but better than what it is was in the past . I will not know until Sep 1st , 2023 about the changes of my prescription glasses .
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Thank you doc, great video!
I am left eye dominant and right handed as well, find a lot of difficulties when it comes to some activities as you said in the video.
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As a shooter , I’m right handed, left eye dominate. When I lineup the sights, everything is fine. But when I’m practicing maneuvering behind cover, and my pistol isn’t directly below my left eye (like normal) , I noticed I get double vision , and will see two of my sites, until I either close one or, or move my head and line up the sights under my dominate eye. It’s almost like each eye is sending different pictures to my brain, and my brain is trying to combine them, so I end up with two of everything because both eyes are trying to focus. If that makes semse
I have the same issue. It is more troublesome when shooting a shotgun, especially at targets moving from left to right, or right to left.
Is there a way to "train" or strengthen my less dominant eye??
Same Here Even Tho I Don't Shoot Guns I Am A Right Handed Left Eye Dominant
And I Sometimes See Double Images But It Clears Into One Image When I Focus Hard But The Image I See Gets Blurry If I Focus Hard
To Be More Exact I Used The Triangle Method To Find Out
Tho When I Used The Thumb Method Answer Was Same But When I Focused On The Distant Object To Position My Thumb I Saw 2 Fingers Instead of 1 And When I Focused On The Thumb I Saw 2 Objects I Was Trying To Focus On, And If I Focus Hard As Mentiond Above I See Only 1 Finger And 1 Object As I Should But It Gets Blurry
I'm left handed shooter right eye dominant. Just realizing after passing my armed security blue card shooting test
Left handed + Right eye dominant + Ak iron sight = you died
@@jbar85jb22 your not alone brother 😂
If I look far away and put my thumb in front of it my thumb automatically doubles. The same goes for the hand during the triangle.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one
Holy shit more people like me!!!!!!
Came here to ask this too. I got laughed at as a child when doing this test for asking "So which thumb do i cover the object with?"
Means you're retarded
I mean that in a joking way, no hard feelings
I was right-eye dominant before I had a detached retina a few years ago. Since my right eye never recovered fully, it would see objects about 20% farther away, giving me a horrible double vision. I've recently been trying to become left-ey dominant and have found that covering my damaged eye for a few hours per day with a patch, my left eye is becoming the dominant one and some of the double vision is slowly improving. I am right handed and have always been right-eye dominant. So far this training has been amazing and I hope it continues to improve. Hope this might be helpful to someone else suffering from the same problem.
Thank you so much for this. I target shoot as a secondary hobby, and have been plagued by terrible groupings. I’ve spent thousands on different pistols, ammunition, classes, you name it. For whatever reason my eyes just didn’t seem to play well with the target.
However, I just watched this video, and found out that I am left eye right hand dominant. Just got back from the range with my 18 year old Walther P99, and ended up tearing away the bullseye.
Did you decide to shoot lefty
I tried the triangle, if I focus it's either both are dominant or neither. *shrug*
The object moves left or right no matter which eye I close.
Same
The Game Knights might be centered?
Ended up i was just really tired lol
I dont have a eye dominance brou JAJAJAJAA
That was the one of the best explanations I've ever listened, and I liked it! Thank you Doc.
I am an NRA Instructor and eye dominance is critical to shooting well. Teaching it can be a challenge, especially with children. You presented several variations of the method we usually use. Thanks for the additional options!
For me, making the triangle and pulling it forward made the test more apparent. Playing pool I didn't pay attention to eye dominance. For years, I always looked down the barrel of the cue with my right eye. I recently found I was left eye dominate. Wow, what a difference. I wish Al Gore would have discovered the internet 20 years earlier.
Right eye. I just had my yearly examination. It was interesting to find out how my vision has changed/not changed over the year. One of my eyes is 20/15...probably the right. I’m enjoying this channel a lot! I’m a librarian and pretty much on the computer all the time and also switching back and forth between near and far reading for patrons that come in. Keep up the great work! 🙂
So screens can have something to dominate eyes? Also is it like misplaced and how can I fix it?
As a person who's left eye is dominant I will close my right eye if I have to look in a microscope.
Maybe this can help some of you figure it out.
I'm the same with binoculars
Don’t need to make a triangle I was one seeing out of my right eye dominant, all my life!
whenever i search for anything about eyes ..you are here with a great video with all the info i want &more in a very direct and simple way...you are amazing doc !
I don’t know if I’m not eye dominant but when ever I do this I can see perfectly no matter what method I use
Perhaps you just have monocular vision as well
I am left eye dominant, yet I am right handed. I didn't even know about that but still became a archery champion, a lot of thanks goes to my best friend for his assistance I learning, training and tips.
That's awesome!!!
I'm right-handed and my dominant eye seems to be the left one.
My right eye is much blurrier for distance but he seems to be a little better to near than the other eye.
This video answered a question or two about my Dominant Eye. I’ve really wonder about this and now I have the answer! Thanks Doctor!!!
Great!
@@DoctorEyeHealth If I use the triangle method then I see the object when my left eye is closed. But if I use the thumb method the object is covered when my right eye is closed. What's the explanation to this?
Im neither. I tried the thumb and the triangle. Both sides are off center xD
None of these work for me. I just see double my hand, or double my thumb or whatever, and can "choose" which one I'm using to use to centre or blot out. So I can "make" my left eye dominant, or my right eye dominant. But if I need to close one eye (like when it's very sunny), I always close my right and use my left because it feels more comfortable.
Same here 🤦🏼♂️
But what does it mean haha
Same for most part, although when I have to close my eye I close the eye closer to light source so I don't even have a preference there
I'm down this eye dominance rabbit hole now and have the exact same answer, to no avail. It's very frustrating. I don't get it. I don't understand how everyone else gets it and it's so simple to them.
If I focus on a distant object and hold up my thumb, my thumb appears twice in my vision and I can see through both thumbs. I can then "choose" which thumb to cover the object with. If I focus on my thumb, the object farther away now appears twice, and I "choose" which one to cover with my now opaque thumb. Same thing with the triangle hand hole. Either two objects if I'm focusing on my hands or two holes if I'm focusing on the object.
@@zacharybroussard3765 that does happen to me but in these comments I did found a way which includes checking which eye do you instinctively close when you suddenly go to bright place after coming out of dark room. My instinct closes my right eye, so ig I am left eye dominant (although it's dependent on instinct, because if you start thinking consciously you can close either one)
But apart from this thing I can always chose which eye to look from and have almost the same vision the both of them
I am right eye dominant and I remember that I did that with the triangle as I was a little child, now I an focus better and know on what eye I should rely more on, thank you very much! 💫
100% LEFT EYE DOMINANT. Love your channel! I’m an Optometric Technician and always get a neat tidbit of info from your videos I can take back to work with me. PS, I’m always down to collab!
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This has helped me with fps games like VALORANT, i focus better with my right eye so i have the weapons on the left on my screen so my crosshair is always aiming where im aiming it at. Thank you for showing this test!
Thank You For Sharing
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My Left Eye Is Not As Strong As My Right Eye.
I Love Ur Videos Thanks For Sharing.I Also Had An
Pressure Eye Test It Really Scared Me...
Glad you saw your doctor. What scared you about the pressure testing?
Doctor Eye Health The Doctor Had Put
Some Yellow Drops In My Eye To Numb
Them So That He Could Do The Pressure Test
After He Was Done My Eyes Started Twitching
My Eyes Were Very Dry After The Procedure...
Came here because my Right eye sees now better.
seems that eye dominance can switch after ICL surgery!
We did this test in the Police Academy to find our dominant eye.
Guys this is EXACTLY correct with what to do & you MUST do this with learning shooting.
I'm left eye dominant, and right handed
Ditto! Welcome to the club.
Same just tested
Same
i cant tell i cant close my left eye and they are both off centered
same
I’m left handed and left eye dominant! Thank you for this video
You're so welcome!
How rare is being left handed but right eye dominant?
I am too sadly
I'm confused, with the first triangle and closing eye method, i did it multiple times and both eyes ended up being the dominant one. When moving the triangle to my face, it went straight into the middle and on my nose. Finally, with the thumb method, when I put my thumb in front of the distant object, if i focussed on the object i'd see 2 of my thumb and the dominant eye depended on which version of my thumb i moved in front of the object. And when focussing on my thumb, the distant object became to blurry to make out where i should place my thumb. Equal eyes? No dominance? Idk
I was once right eye dominant (to the point I hardly saw anything with my left eye), because my left eye had hypermyopia. Since wearing glasses, I have now become left eye dominant!
I now know for sure I'm cross eyed dominant (right hand, left eye). I was getting tripped up trying to figure which handed bow to use.
Thank you so much for making this, very helpful. I’m a newer shooter and I thought that maybe I’ve been using the wrong eye. Afraid not, gotta keep practicing.
I’m also right handed and left eye dominant. I love archery and have never had a problem with sighting at all.
Awesome vid 👍
I'm right handed but do not have a dominate eye, dunno if its because I had LVC but, not having a dominate eye has caused me quite a bit of trouble as I do several types of competitive shooting. Since identifying the problem, I have to shoot with a piece of scotch tape on my safety glasses over my left eye to occlude it, but not alter the amount of light it receives because of sympathetic reflex.
Struggled for years until I had a friend whos an assistant at a local eye doctor, ask me some questions while we were shooting skeet, and he was able to identify that I was struggling to see one sight picture and subsequently didn't have a dominate eye. The scotch tape makes all the difference in the world, it greatly improved my game, and I'm super grateful for the knowledge eye doctors have and share.
That great to hear! DO you wear any special filters or tints for skeet shooting?
Yep vermilion during the day, but yellow for low light conditions.
Nice. We have Decot lenses here for the local trap shooting club. Ever try those?
Yes! I have their Revel clays set. They're great.
My left eye is farsighted and my right eye is nearsighted. Found out both eyes has astigmatism. Now I have to worry the floaters and flashes signs of retina detachment. Now both eyes has foaters. I have seen a retina specialist. My retina in both eyes look good no detachment. I'm right-handed and left eye dominate.
Tried all your methods and end up with mostly both (right eye tends to be slightly more dominant).
Right handed - left eye dominant.
No wonder I'm bad at everything. :(
Haha that is so not true
iSpark same
iSpark Same. I take ages to get the hang of things.
Both, but I can focus on one eye, stop focusing, and it will be as if that eye is dominant until I blink or focus with another eye
Left handed, right eye dominant.. think I’m going to use that for something useful
Hockey?
left eye dominance is rare even along lefties
Same
Is there any way to fix it?
@@maybe9357 no embrace it are you tirgt or left footed btw it's an advantage sometimes
@@krzysztofwitkowski4742 bro what do you mean by left footed or right footed? how it'll become an advantage? I'm an athlete btw and a left handed with a right dominant eye.
Thanks sir... Before this video I was wondering I have eyes problem... But after listening I got myself left eye dominant
Oh no! I'm cross eye dominant. 😭 right hand- left eye. Question: why do some people have bad peripheral vision? (I do)
Well some eye diseases can cause poor peripheral vision. But some of it could be mental processes. Have you seen your doctor about it?
Oh no me too....does that signify something ?
Same
i cross eye dominant to i lefthand right eye
So am i.
I just see two triangles at the same time...I can make either eye appear dominant?
Right Eye Dominant!!! This also clearly means that every left part of my body is weaker against my right
Avien Reyes same
I was left eye dominant until I lost that eye to cancer this year. Oooops! Takes a few months to get used to that change.
So sorry to hear your loss of the eye. That sucks. But also happy they found the cancer and are treating it...How is everything going?
@@DoctorEyeHealth It's going really good. The tumor from ocular melanoma was discovered on New Year's Eve and on February 22nd of this year I had my left eye removed. I kept all of my depth perception and I went right back to surfing and doing all the things I did in the past. There's only two bummer things. One is my tumor was a class 2, which means my chance of it metastasizing in my liver or lungs over the next 5 years is about 72%. That's what makes ocular melanoma so insidious. Losing the eye was not that big of a deal. Psychologically that's the easy part.
The other bummer is mt persistent Phantom Eye syndrome. I see a translucent kaleidescope pattern across my field of vision all the time. It's most noticeable when I'm tired or I'm relaxing my eyes. And it's less noticeable when I'm concentrating on something. Hopefully it will go away someday.
But overall life is good and I'm kicking ass with one eye!
I'm cross eye dominant too and tried archery for a month but aiming with my non dominant eye felt very uncomfortable, my nose was in the way 😄
Is that called big nose dominance? 😉ok bad joke sorry couldnt resist
I am left eye dominant for distance, and right eye dominant for close objects.
Hello I have what's called amblyopia aka lazy eye no my eyes don't look lazy but it technically means one of my eyes is very weak because from a young age my brain learned how to supress this eye so my whole life I could only see with one eye basically but a few months back I forced myself to wear my glasses with sunglasses over them and cover my good eye completely and a month later I took it off and now I have binocular vision and can see with both eyes now but as to this video I'm cross eyed dominate (left eye/right handed)
@Luffytard yes you can but you should probably consult your doctor first about it
How does eye dominance develop? Can it be changed?
The dominant eye has more neural connections in the brain. This could be due to many reasons. Lesser prescription in that eye, more use of that eye starting at a young age..perhaps better alignment of that eye during the first few months of life. There is also some evidense about the shape of blue-cone free zones within the retina... In theory, it would seem likely that you could change the dominance...but probably very difficult to do. Like training yourself to be left handed after 20 years of being right handed, and vise versa.
Right eye dominant! By a lot... should I be concerned about how big the gap is between the dominance of my right and left eye? when I did the test with the clock on the wall it seemed like my left eye was way off the mark
When I'm not wearing glasses, my left eye is dominant. I can function pretty well without glasses - I can drive without them, it's just more tiring, etc. My right eye is however definitely my worse eye - I have mild myopia in both eyes, but in my left eye I have barely-there astigmatism (pretty much the lowest measurable amount), but in my right eye I have astigmatism that's actually noticeable (still relatively mild though).
I find that when I'm wearing my glasses - meaning, my eyes have pretty much equal sight - I no longer have a consistently dominant eye; it's pretty random what results an eye dominance test will give me. Also, if I do the triangle test and it shows my right eye as dominant, I can unfocus and then refocus my eyes so that my left eye becomes the dominant one instead (and vice versa).
When I do the triangle test I have two triangles for each eye and sometimes it’s my left and sometimes my right eye weird.
I guess it just depends one if you move your hand left or right, doesn’t work really :/
You know...i know exactly what you mean. I have had that same thing too. Maybe you don't have a dominant eye? If you were going to aim at something...which eye would you close?
Mine naturally turn first to the left..but when I usually play fps games like counter strike....it felt too weird to play left handed and comfortably play as right handed.
Is this alright?!!
I do this exact thing too, depends which out of focus triangle you concentrate on. I play darts and I’m right hand but may be left eye dominant but when I do all the tests I can make an argument for both. Maybe being non dominant is more common than previously thought
It works perfectly. You are just not doing it right.
@@strangeboy904 when you do the thump method, do you only see 1 thumb?
Does seeing double of your hand/thumb when focusing on the distant object indicate no eye dominance? Have always been like this and don't know which of the 2 thumbs to cover the distant object with.
I'm left eye dominant, and right handed which is why I probably got whacked in the mouth trying to catch a softball one day long ago. I remember being so sure I was going to catch it, and so shocked when I didnt! (🤪) I just did the test and was surprised by this, but when I was in grade school I trained myself to write both right and left handed, AND I am pretty good at doing precision things that need eye hand coordination - which is now escaping me the more I develop presbyopia.
Thanks for the simple and fun guide
No problem! Thank you!
I am left eye dominant and right-handed. That maybe explains why I suck at video games
Your eyes are literally beautiful.
If i close the triangle, I'm right eye dominant. If I use my tumb, I'm left eye dominant. Great.
Bruh same wtf
WOW!! LEFT EYE DOMINANT.
My eye seems to switch dominance on how tired one of them is, although I can't find much on the internet, I've done the eye dominance test multiple times and got different outcomes.
When I go to position my thumb over a target I'm either seeing 2 of the target, or 2 of my thumb. Which one am I supposed to position over the object?
Thomas Skinner sameee
@@spacewanderer9 samehere lol
Same
I’m right handed ✍️ and left eye 👁 dominate
This doesn't make sense to me. When you focus on a distant object you get 2 blurry versions of your hands in front of you, allowing you to make either eye dominant. Take the thumb test. If you give a thumbs up in front of you, as soon as you focus on a distant object you will see 2 thumbs in front of you. If you align one of those "copies" with the distant object it can appear as if you're left eye dominant but if you align the other thumb "copy" with the object it will appear as if you're right eye dominant. Can you explain this inconsistency with the test? This also applies to the hand triangle test but it's harder to explain in a comment.
i found out i was cross eye dominant when i joined the Australian military, they handed me a rifle set up righthanded and i kept trying to sight the rifle with my left eye. shooting right side with both eyes open was almost impossible when i was learning... id never even heard of a dominant eye until my section commander called me "one of those freaks" ;)
What happens when both eyes are fighting for dominance?
For me it depends on what hand I use. I'm cross eyed dominate no matter what hand I point with.
Ofc he has amazing eyes
hey thanks!
I find it impossible to frame the object in the center without focusing on one eye. Does that mean I’m cross-eyed dominant?
Edit: I tried focusing on my hands rather than focusing on the object and it worked!
Same happened to me too!
Left handed and right eye dominant.
I learned this when I started archery...
I can hit a target at 60 yards but it’s tuff..
Good channel. Both my eyes are dominant but I probably use left a bit more, plus I'm also ambidextrous (born right handed but can write with left just as good), doing things better with both. I'm also ambipedal (both footed). Father is right hand and right footed and Mother is left handed and left footed. Crazy!! My Eye Doctor several years ago said I've got the best eyes he's ever seen in his 30 years of profession.
That’s all super cool!! I have no idea what my parents are but I suppose that would be something interesting to ask
@@DoctorEyeHealth Definitely find out. It also has a lot to do with what hemispehere of the brain you think from. Most likely growing up you thought more from the right hemisphere like a left hander, which deals more with creative and spacial elements than textbook and detail..even though you're right handed. Probably another reason why your dominant eye is your left. The aim really should be to train any less dominant eye, and hand with writing and throwing, and foot with kicking,
I am right handed and I am very left eye dominant. I have a astigmatism in my right eye which is probably why my brain prefers to utilize my left eye more. It definitely affects sports where you are sideways, such as tennis and baseball. I teach tennis and I am perplexed why some students just can not hit a one hand backhand well. So many good athletes can't that I suggest learning a two hand backhand instead since anyone can learn that, and you are less sideways. I can hit a solid one hand backhand with my non dominant arm but not my dominant. It is because of my eyes. Cross dominance.
When I do this test I see both circles created from the triangles when both eyes are open
You may need to just focus on the image that is your gut instinct to use.
Is it possible for my dominant eye to be more blurry than the other one?
thats what it's like for me. but i think thats because im near sighted in my right eye but my left eye has astigmatism so im right eye dominant but its blurry with that eye
Same here. I'm right eye dominant, but my right eye is more nearsighted, and it even has astigmatism.
Yep the dominance is a preferance (to see the locations) but not the degree of clearness
Yes. Both eyes rarely have the same quality vision.
Same here, i think I've used my dominance eye too much in watching tv and in using my phone, I think my dominance eye received all the radiation and become blurry.
This sounds kinda like bs. I can choose which eye my mind "sees" through, and even if you arent aware of it you can too.
Your mind does it automatically when you block vision in one eye, but you dont have to block your vision to do this.
You can choose to focus with either eye, or even with both at once. Hold your thumb out and look past them into the distance, you'll see two thumbs. The same is true for the triangle method as well, you'll see two wholes in your hand(s). This one tricks the brain a little though and melds the two perspectives of your hands into a single hand with extra parts.
Practice changing your minds focus on either thumb or both simultaneously, switching between the options.
By blocking an object with one of the apparent thumbs you change which eye will still be able to see when one is closed.
Cross Eye Dominate (RH & LE). Once I learned this, my Shooting scores went up. However, I have to use my left hand for most shooting.
Well I just found out I'm cross-eye dominant. Hopefully this will help with target shooting.
A very comprehensive and helpful video! Thank you!
Cool tests and this guys got a great attitude
Thank you Doctor. Just discovered I'm left eye dominant and shoot right handed. Have some work to do.
For some reason when I try to focus on something that’s far away I usually close my right eye so I can see better which is weird cause I’m right handed
Juan Morales Same
same
because youre right handed so your left eyes better vision
That's odd. The first test says I am right eye dominant. But the second test says I am left eye dominant.
This video was made a while ago, but I still want to comment this. When doing these dominant eye tests my right eye is dominant, but when aiming through a scope I use my left eye since I can see much better and its easier to keep my left eye open rather than my right eye, and this confuses me since your usually supposed to look though a scope with your dominant eye. (I'm right handed)
I don't understand how the triangle test proves anything... I can look at something and find one eye dominant but if I move my hand to the side then suddenly the other eye is "dominant"
Modofaka, you are right. I was surprised with the first test, I am right eyed
This was honestly hella cool and interesting to try
I loved the little games to see which eye is more dominant and i am left eye dominated. I am also right handed so that is cool.
Thanks I am right eye dominant now
I'm right eye dominant!
When i close my left eye its not only off center but its completely out of the triangle, such a huge difference. Does this mean anything else in particular ?
you can also tell eye dominance by the ear dominance never encountered a person with a different ear dominance to their eye also I noticed a pattern since I got interested in eye dominance most lefties are right eyed
Thank you. Really helped. Clear video.
You're welcome! Glad it helped, Craig!
Awesome! Great tests and they work!
Now that I know the trick, it doesn't work for me. Sometime it's right, sometime it's left.
Honestly, I can't figure out which eye is the dominant one. The triangle test seems to suggest the right eye, but the thumb test indicates left eye. I'm left handed on a number of things..writing, baseball (both hitting and throwing).... but then right-handed for guitar, golf, and hockey. Seems a bit strange to me.
When I attempt this I just see a double image of the hand triangle. I can't center the object in both triangles so I put the object in the intersecting area of the two triangles, and as I start closing up the triangle, the intersecting area between the two gets smaller and smaller and inevitably I get to the point where I have to decide which triangle stays with the object and picking one over the other just seems arbitrary
Lol same here
I didn't know if my left or right eye was dominate I'm left handed so I thought left but come to find out it's my right eye
dont understand; When im focusing on the object, the triange formed with my fingers is double, because im not focused on my hands
Yes! That is called physiological diplopia. You want to quickly move the hands and go with the one you prefer first.
Great Video!! Very simple and accurate results!! Thank You!! Right Handed / Right Eye Dominant long distance target shooter.
right handed and left eye dominant, hmmm, how strange
Me too!
Im left handed but right eye dominant
My right eye has exotropia but the school evalation in January 2021 said it is my dominant eye .
I thought - Left eye will be dominant eye because I have exotropia in my right eye.
Tests (expect for magnify glasses) - I have got both eyes as dominant .
Did I used any correctives ?
Glasses - nearsightedness for both lenses and corrective lenses in my right eyes .
Patching (2012- 2013 , 2020)
Vision therapy (2012- 2013)
I didn't have any problems for seeing things far until I was 11 years old . I know also had poor depth perception
6th : no depth perception
7th : 1 depth perception
I do belief it is a higher depth perception because I am no longer scared of excualavators or stairs . I not perfect depth perception but better than what it is was in the past . I will not know until Sep 1st , 2023 about the changes of my prescription glasses .
yoo that's actually incredible
Glad you think so!!