How much can you do with your non dominant hand?

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I cant do a thing.

I cant brush my teeth, open jars, brush my hair. I cant even hold a pen properly 😭

Same, not much of any use. I'm very left handed.

I just tried to light a candle with the lighter in my left hand, couldnt do it!

Change gear when driving. That's about it.

Pretty much everything except writing although if I had a gun to my head, I could get by. Having shared a computer with my RH husband (I'm LH), I am truly ambidextrous on the computer mouse.

Ok can deffo do this one 🥹

I can do nearly everything except my signature. Being a pianist helped, along with having to when I broke three bones in my dominant hand two years ago. Necessity and all that jazz.

All sorts, when I iron I pass the iron between my two hands, I can make a sandwich one handed with my left hand 😂

Me and my son just tried to write with our other hands, i cant even do a lower case a 😂 its actually really frustrating when you try and just cant do it

I can use my left hand to wave, change gear, carry something, or hold my iPad while I use the useful hand to type this post. But that’s about it.

Loads.
I'm not ambidextrous because there are some tasks that I can only achieve with the one hand. But neither hand completely dominates.

For example I write with my left hand but use my right hand for many other actions.

Ds is a funny one. He has a preferred hand for everything but not the same hand. So he bats right handed but plays tennis left hand, bowls left armed, writes right handed, but if eating with just a fork would pick it up in his left hand, is very left footed in football. Don’t know what’s going on there tbh. DH and I are very right handed- my left hand might as well not be there. DD is v left handed to the same extent.

Well as a child I was made to sit on my left hand to "encourage" me to be right handed (70s) so I can use both for lots of things. I think maybe it is different for those of us who are left handed but are made to use things that are right handed. 10% of the population are left handed.

I write right handed but can do a fairly decent attempt with my left hand.

I wonder if all pianists are able? God forbid my right goes out of order, id be stuffed.

Growing up left handed in a right handed world, a fair bit, though much less than I used to, thanks to arthritis at the base of my thumb.

Everything except write legibly and brush my teeth comfortably

This is how I iron!

There is a great book called “left hand right hand” about left handedness and how left handed people were often perceived as clumsy because they have to live in a right handed world. They also know that 10% of cavemen were left handed ( from looking at spear heads) so it’s been consistent through time.

I am ambidextrous and could write with either hand as a child. But I just used the right mostly as in those days it was 'not quite right' to write with the left hand.

I just use either hand for most things, except when chopping or cutting something.

My DC is left handed so it's possible I am, I just write with the right as I had to. My handwriting is really terrible and I'm embarrassed about it.

Computer mouse is totally fine. I can write legibly but not nicely. Hair brushing etc is okay. Knives, I use for cutting at the table so it must be possible but because of the risk to my fingers I generally avoid so don't have much practice.

I'm a leftie, so I tend to think living in a right handed world tends to make you closer to ambidextrous.

My dominant hand is stronger, so opening bottles and jars is better with my right hand. I also crochet, use fabric shears and use a rotary cutter with my right hand, but I can iron and use snips or a seam ripper with either hand.

I can write reasonably well with my non-dominant hand but it's harder because I need to slant the page I'm writing on so that I can see what I'm doing, so it's legible but not particularly attractive and my left hand/wrist gets tired quickly. My signature looks much the same with either hand. When I was learning Arabic I found it difficult to write in Arabic with my right hand because it's the other direction so after a few months I gave it a go with my left hand and my writing instantly improved.

I wonder if arabic and hebrew speakers and writers were encouraged to be lefties like most were encouraged to be righties back in the day.

I think I'm ambidextrous. I didn't really notice until an exercise in a level English where to try and reproduce how a child feels learning to write, my teacher played a spoken piece about die fledermaus and asked us to transcribe it using our non dominant hand. It wasn't an issue for me at all, I was also studying German so the German phrases didn't throw my brain, and my teacher watching me, asked me to switch hands mid way as he thought I must be left handed and doing it wrong. My handwriting with my left is a little more rounded and child like. When I broke my arm I went into work and they said but how will you do xyz (I was teaching groups at the time) and I just said with my other hand, it was absolutely fine.
My dad is left handed but went to a strict Catholic school where they believed that was done kind of signal of the devil, so used to tie his left hand to his chair and make him write with his right (I know). He is now fully ambidextrous, will pick up a pen, tool, bowling ball, tennis racquet etc with either hand just depending which is more convenient.

@Sparehair ooh sounds interesting. My eldest son swaps hands lots, does lots of things left handed although writes right handed, he is 20. In fact I can scoot on a scooter left or right footed, but my sons do different legs. Apparently if you go to hop like on hop scotch that says a lot about your leg preference, mine is right foot but Dh is left, but he is only left footed, never for hands. So strange. And I am really clumsy

When I apply mascara I do the right eye right handed and the left eye left handed!

I can write with mine.

Not brilliantly but it’s readable.