Right handers who do things left handed and vice versa

[Pat "5mph"]

I'm ambidextrous.
Some stuff I can only do whit my right hand, some only with my left.
Have big problems with tin openers, get myself in a right pickle, so I only buy ring pull cans.

 

[T4tomo]

My Son is right handed for writing etc, left footed for football etc, used to bat left handed at cricket but then switched to right handed ( to be fair he wasnt much use either handed).

I'm right handed at virtually everything but dig peats with a left handed peat spade. ( it a fairly minority's actIvitey, Google it) probably because my dad hogged the right handed one

 

[Kestevan]

I'm pretty much ambidextrous. My writing is neater with the right hand, but that's about the only difference.

 

[mjr]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Seriously, I'm another childhood injury victim with resulting confused mix of left and right handed activities depending on when I learnt them.

 

[Keith Oates]

,My son is naturally left handed and so that is what he uses all the time. My daughter, who is younger than him, was naturally right handed when she was a baby but after a while she changed to left handed as she was copying her brother. At least that's what I think happened, but now at age 22 she still uses her left hand for almost everything.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[raleighnut]

I'm right handed but shovel left handed, useful when you work in a foundry that uses 'green' sand as you have to shift a couple of tons of it twice a day (per moulder) once in the morning to prepare it for use by shovelling it through the 'chucker' and then you gradually use it up into moulds throughout the day.
It means you can work on the other side of the pile where no-one else wants to be cos it is awkward for them.
this could have been filmed in most of the foundries I worked in as a 'freehand moulder' for 10yrs or so.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk1JOYzwRP4&feature=player_detailpage

I never had a labourer though

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I'm very left sided, left foot, hand and eye dominant.
My father switched between the two for many things. When he went to school (in the 1920`s) he was forced to change writing with his left hand to his right. Presumably this resulted in him being able to switch so many things.
He was also a great one for Spoonerisms and I often wonder if the two were linked.

 

[pplpilot]

I'm left handed but i always have one right handed so it feels like someone else is doing it...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Another left-hander and left-eyer who adapted to right-handed cutlery (left-hand carries food to the mouth, be it with fork or spoon, so I don't see the problem) and orchestral bass playing (to avoid catastrophic bow collisions). In the kitchen, the chef's knife goes in the left hand and the right hand guides or holds the food steady. If I need to use a fork to hold it steady, it's a complete reversal of my table manner of eating. Scissors moulded for right-handers are a pain, mind.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Being ambidextrous runs in the family. I eat left handed and can do most things with either hand.

 

[welsh dragon]

Left handed, but I use a knife and fork as a right hander. Use scissors in my right hand as we never had left handed scissors. Sew with my left hand which annoyed the sewing teacher as she thought I was sewing backwards, use a gun in my left hand although it is awkward re safety catch etc. Hold a cup in my left hand. It would feel horrible in my right hand used can opener in my left hand and it again was awkward. I used it anti clockwise. Cut meat left handed and Mr WD hates me using a carving knife. He thinks im going to cut my hand off.

but I would hold a tennis racket or bat in my right hand. And I throw right handed.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I am right handed but shoot left handed because I am left eye dominant.

+1 when I shot.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I remember when I used to play squash, there was a guy in the club leagues who could play with either hand, so there was xxx right handed in league 1, and xxx left handed in league 3. He was very fair and didn't swap if losing.

 

[arch684]

I write with my right hand but almost every other thing i use my left hand

 

[Saluki]

Being ambidextrous runs in the family. I eat left handed and can do most things with either hand.

Me too. I am told that ambidextrousness runs in the family, but I'm adopted so have no empirical proof of this.

I eat left handed, flip pancakes and stir left handed, turn screws, open doors, turn keys, feed the dogs, dig the garden, text and general phone use, open doors etc. I played rounders left handed but with tennis/badminton etc I used both hands, having no backhand to speak of, I changed hands and had 2 strong forehands. Polo, obviously I had to use my right hand as those are the rules.
I play guitar right handed (but my left hand is doing all the fretting so that makes perfect sense to me anyway). I write right handed nowadays, after a broken elbow left me a bit injured so I learned properly. Feels strange using my left hand to write as I have lost a bit of sensation there. Mind you, after breaking my right wrist hideously, I've lost sensation in the right hand too. I mouse with either hand.

In some things I am ambi-useless. I had a go at golf (was crap) and I couldn't hit the ball with the bat things with either hand. Pool is the same, bowling too. I have tried hard with all these things but to no avail. It doesn't matter which hand I use most, getting a duvet cover on is neigh on impossible.
Left footed and left eyed. Archery was right handed and left eyed but seemed to work for me. I wish they'd make a nice left handed camera so helpful.