How much can you do with your non dominant hand?

[pinkglass9]

I cant do a thing.

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

I slammed my thumb in a car door when I was a kid and couldn't use my right (dominant) hand for a long time so I learned to do everything left handed. I still do the crossword and Soduku left handed so I don't lose that ability, been doing that for 50 years or so- in fact, my number work is tidier left handed than right!
I had an operation on my left hand a few years ago and was in plaster for 3 months. Then I realised how much I actually use my left hand, more than I thought.

I can’t even turn the key in my door to get in with my left hand 😳

I can touch type (hours of repetitive keying to get muscle memory) and I can hold my vape in either hand, but other than that, I can’t do much with my left.

Strangely (maybe?), when I played football, I was ok with either foot, but better with my left. I played in a proper team for 12 years, always as left back or left wing. It’s more common for footballers to be right foot dominant, so don’t know what was going on with me 🤔

I'm ambidextrous. I use my right hand for writing and playing tennis normally, but dm always reckoned I'd have been left-handed in a left-handed world.

I can write, slower but legibly with my left hand. If it's easier doing it left-handed I'll swap sides.
I can play a reasonable level of tennis left-handed, except serving which I've never tried. I swap the mouse over between left and right depending on what else I'm wanting to do. I open things left-handed.
I can't work out which hand is better to peel potatoes with though. Both feel wrong, and scissors right-handed is mildly better, but both feel awkward.

Most things. I can also write with both hands and thry look identical.

I can do most things with my non dominant hand except accurately hit a ball or write.

My daughter is very like this - left handed for writing but everything else swaps between hands .
Interestingly she didn't crawl but shuffled and scooted on her bottom - I read somewhere that crawling establishes hand dominance - hence why she does really have it .

Doesn't have hand dominance that should say !

I'm left handed. Not much I can't do with my right.

I write left handed but if I play tennis/Nintendo wii/10 pin bowling etc I use my right hand. Hold my fork in left hand always, carry a bag on right shoulder

Well, I can do some things, but I can’t do THAT… 😉

Have you noticed the ones who can do a lot with their other hand are left handed?

Try unlocking door ?

Somehow even that is hard ! Yet such a simple thing to do 😀

Breaking my right elbow and having my right arm in a sling has made a huge improvement on what I can do with my left hand.

Also apply mascara left handed, use a computer mouse right handed. As said previously hold fork in left hand, knife in right, but if making a sandwich I will hold knife in left, I can't butter things well with right hand

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.

Both of my boys are exactly like this.

DS1 bats at cricket with his left hand, but bowls with his right. Eats left handed but writes with his right, plays golf left handed too.

DS2 bats left hand, bowls right hand, eats with right, writes with both, plays golf with right but football with left foot.

I was made to write with my right hand but I can write with my left (less neatly). A lot of other things I do with my left eg open a jar. There are thins that I've always done with my right eg operate a computer mouse that I could probably do with my left but not very well. I think its quite tough being a leftie who was forced to be a rightie

Interesting- my son was also a committed bum shuffler- had to be hauled to his feet by the physio at 12 months and walked from there. Never crawled.

I can do most things, including writing legibly but slowly.
My brother is right handed but eats with his knife in his left hand.

My right hand is more dominant but only just.
I can write forwards and backwards with my left hand but use my right day to day. I iron and sew with my left. I used to be able to play badminton and table tennis with my left. I use a mouse with my left hand.

That's interesting about crawling and handedness. I never crawled, according to my Mum I just sat and then walked. I do think of myself as right handed though, even though I can also write with my left hand. However I'm not as strongly handed as some people, so I will use my left if it's more convenient. I remember being surprised when I was out with my Mum and she was putting her card PIN into a thingy at the checkout. It was set up to suit right handed people (that seems to have changed now and they are all symmetrical) and she complained a bit and used her left hand awkwardly. In that situation I would definitely have used the more convenient hand because it's just using a finger to tap four digits, but she didn't/couldn't.

my nieces just bottom shuffled and one is left hand
my dd crawled and is left handed.

I bum crawled - right handed.

Quite a bit, but if I try to write I can only do it back to front.

I was ambidextrous until I broke my left wrist. Now I'm primarily right handed, though I still do more with my left than some people. We did grip tests at the gym recently, and I was exactly the same on both sides, which apparently is unusual.
Dh writes with his left, but does lots with his right, including most sports.
Our four children are all strongly right handed

I'm a left handed and grew up in a right handed household. I use a knife and fork right handed but a spoon left handed and pick a kettle up using my right hand. I use a mouse right handed (as a pp said, very useful for making notes while using a computer) but can use it left handed when standing next to someone helping them on a computer. I can write with my right hand but it is a lot slower and a lot messier! Left handers definitely have to be more ambidextrous.