Left-handedness is the preference for the left hand over the right for everyday activities such as writing.

Hi all, I was just wondering which of us are left handed.

How does it affect your life, where (almost) everything is made for right handers? And in LFS and racing in general. Can it be a handicap?

(And BTW, if you didn't notice yet, left hander here )

I am right handed but left footed...

Pretty useless contribution to this thread I know, sorry.

Quote from Gills4life :

I am right handed but left footed...

Pretty useless contribution to this thread I know, sorry.

What? Every comment is useful.

The more the merrier

im a cackhander i mean left hander

Quote from jwardy :

im a cackhander i mean left hander

Lefty here too! And it's not cackhanded it's hand discrimination!

pc mice for right handed people..... limited choice of joysticks and scissors.


Left being left handed and right legged is great for motorbiking! Smooth clutch control and a good kick for the kick start!

I've never quite got this thing I've noticed some people have in the US of saying that left-handed people can't use manual gearbox cars as it means shifting with the 'wrong' hand (remember in The Simpsons, Flanders' Leftorium selling the car with the shifter on the left). Half the world drive like that every day..

I didn't realise you were one of the Devil's Children, Brad.

I mean, I know you joined dbp, but left handed aswell?

Right handed

Right handed, not ambidextrous.

I drove the V8 Supercars in rF and even switched my shifter to the left side to see if I could drive as close to the real thing as possible, but could not get the timing down for gear changes.

I know it's not impossible for right handed people to drive a right hand drive car, but I imagine it would be a hell of a learning experience if you've learned to drive a left hand drive car. I suddenly find myself wanting to give it a try in an actual car...

I drove a RHD car once. it was all bad. it would have ended in disaster if it were a manual.

Can we have a pole for left handed gingers please , its about time we rounded up these abominations


Note the smiley face means its a joke.....

Ambidextrous
I write with my left hand but do everything else right handed but i can use both fairly easily.

Another corrie-fisted yin here. I was told the Italian for left-handed is derived from the word "sinister". Does anyone know if that's true?

Lefty here. Never really been a disadvantage in any way.

The only time i really consciously had to think about my left handedness was travelling in India. I hold my cigarettes in my left hand and usually pass objects with it as well. It was hard to change the habits of a lifetime and use the right hand instead.
Also when i was eating with my hands (all the time basically) i had to sit on my left hand in the beginning to stop me using it.

Obviously its a big cultural faux par to use your left hand for anything over there.

I'm a right hander, but when I put a piece of steel rod through my right hand a couple years back, I had to do everything left handed. When you've been writing almost exclusively with one hand for 30 years, using the other to write is DAMN hard!

Incidentally, one of the first things I thought of after injuring my hand was that I wasn't going to be able to drive in LFS for a while. Does that mean I need to get out more?

Quote from flymike91 :

I drove a RHD car once. it was all bad. it would have ended in disaster if it were a manual.

I think it has nothing to do with being right handed or left handed, just being used to the position in the car.

I tried a RHD import old supra on a track in France some monthes ago, and I have to say that actually I liked it very much, since I'm right hander, and my right hand is more precise than my left, and I could tackle the line with more precision while letting my left hand to shift (which is not hard to do since you know where are the gears...).

IRL I had a problems with some left hander corners when you have to usually have to use your right hand to shift but in which it is too busy to downshift... It resulted in an awkward cornering trying to slide... the same corners, but right handers, on a RHD wouldn't be a problem for right handers since this arm is overally easier to control...

Damn the thread title is misleading, I thought we were discussing left handers... you know, the ones that turn left

Lefty here as well, but many things are designed for right handed people so some tasks must be done with my right hand (scissors, mouse, **** can opener...).

Quote from banshee56 :

Incidentally, one of the first things I thought of after injuring my hand was that I wasn't going to be able to drive in LFS for a while. Does that mean I need to get out more?

if the second thing you thought of was " how am i going to watch porn"... yes

I am left handed, never affected me in anything.

left handed, left footed, left it under the sink. i hear they (we) can't snap our fingers and that we multiply if you splash water on us.

Quote from amp88 :

Another corrie-fisted yin here. I was told the Italian for left-handed is derived from the word "sinister". Does anyone know if that's true?

Nope, "sinistra" generally means "left" in italian. So no specific lefty discrimination here.

In latin sinister means left and unlucky or wrong (or something in that direction)
and dexter means right and lucky or good.

I am left in writing though, I'm left-forkish too, dunno if there are some people around who eat with a fork in their right hand? (Does seam a bit wrong though)
For the rest I'm right, if I'm right.

There's lots of words in english that were used to describe left-handed people. 'Sinister' is one of them, but also 'Wacky' (which now means 'crazy') and 'cack-handed' (meaning 'clumsy'). Conversely, there's lots of words with their origins describing right-handedness, such as 'dextrous' which now means 'skillful', and indeed, the word 'right' to mean 'correct'.

Quote from banshee56 :

I'm a right hander, but when I put a piece of steel rod through my right hand a couple years back, I had to do everything left handed. When you've been writing almost exclusively with one hand for 30 years, using the other to write is DAMN hard!

My biology teacher at school had his right hand completely severed in a motorbike accident and although it was reattached, he had to learn to write with his left.

Im a lefty too. No real disadvantages as far as i can remember.

Edit: Exept for writing with a fountain pen. Always had ink on my hand after writing big pages. I also do remember that the P8 has got its safety lever on the left side making it a bit harder to reach.

I'm also lefty, and always happy with it
One bad thing is that I write like doctors, sometimes I can't read myself.