You just sit and turn a little your body to the right, so your elbow is in the part where it's supposed to be your notebook and your notebook is a little leaned to the left. Idk, I've done it that way
I was born left handed but forced to be right handed. Recently, I've been recovering the sacred ability of writing with my left hand and this video really inspired me! I'm shocked you don't have more subscribers!
Same thing happened to me I am naturally left handed but as a child I was taught to write throw and kick with my right hand but I have been practicing all of those thing recently with my left hand how are you coming along since your comment was 10 months ago.
At last group of people with same history , i am from india ,,, being lefty is so different ,the best part is people looking at us and saying wow you write with left hand,,, but the only thing worth for all the struggle is taken away from us by forcing and training us to write with our right hand ,,, it is indeed a big struggle to achieve your nondominent hand for writing ,,, we ll be writing thrice copys than our fellows,,, but now i too feel , i should train my dominant hand for this
I’m like idk 55:45 righty so... I’m also confused by the idea that one hand just... is drunk. One hand is like “I’m epic” and the other is “ukbsluf” it just... is weird.
I had been right handed most of my life. I had to switch to left 17 years ago because of chronic pain in the right shoulder. Yes it takes time and lots of practice. It is true that a person will lose the skill in the other hand if not used.
When I was a little kid, I was ambidextrous, but my 1st grade teacher (I was 7) told me to pick a hand and stick with it because she hated that my writing always had a slight difference when I would hand in my work. I chose my right hand, unfortunately, I slowly lost the ability to write with my left hand. Years later, I am now learning how to write with my left hand again. It's pretty messy but its getting better. This video helped me learn some tactics to keep the improvement going, I'm glad I found this video, thank you!
I'm sure your 1st grade teacher had your best interest in mind, but at the same time-man... In hindsight; it's not really a teacher's place to be making those kinds of judgements to begin with (especially in dealing with impressionable youth). I believe that ambidexterity is something we're all capable of attaining (and should be encouraged to do so). I'm 25 as I write this comment, and I've been leaning in to my left-handedness the ENTIRE ¼ of my life. When I was really young-I even had a really bad habit of only using my left hand to type when using a keyboard. My excuse was, it was more 'comfortable'. When in the grander scheme of things; this kind of mentality is NOT good. I was also a very stubborn kid and neglected the wise advice I was once given by an adult to practice typing with both hands because it was the traditional/conventional way of typing. I just completed filling two seperate pages with one sentence today; one with my left hand and one with my right. I'm gonna do the same for the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase) and geometric shapes. It's only Day 1 and I'm feeling (and seeing) the visual difference, and it's very interesting! Truly like looking at a live journal of my writing as a present-day adult, back to when I was a kid barely knowing how to write/even hold a pen properly. Confidence is key. Perfection isn't just given out-but earned. Practice makes perfect! I will become ambidextrous.
I sufer tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand, I am learning to use my left hand in case I am unable to draw ever again, atm I am depressed due to this problem but if I am able to get ambidextrious in the future it would help me a lot to balance the load on my right hand. Guys who have never suffered from these pains, please be careful on how you use your thecnology and your health in general, is so frustrating when you feel useless, when you are not able even to do simple tasks. I will continue in this, I need it to recover part of my life.
My handwriting with my dominant hands is terrible. I prefer to type. I can type about as fast as normal speech (and I used to do that as a job, relaying phone calls for deaf and hard of hearing people) Handwriting can suck it IMHO I've heard being left handed can give you an edge in certain competitive athletic activities, if your opponent is not used to left handed opponents.
very late reply from me, but it's true! I kind of play volleyball and I know that lots of receivers have trouble receiving left handed spikes. It does give a little advantage.
I'm 2+ years in the same project(daily). I'm getting really close to a perfect point! I've truly done it all and mastered the most! I've even learned other abilities by doing it, like juggling 4 balls, boxing + weaker stance(southpaw), drawing, throwing and many more. It's amazing. I can't really describe the mental struggle I went through but it's an unforgettable experience & experiment for me! I even suffered from a tendon inflammation because some of my hand muscles were over loaded while the other muscles were "asleep" and an imbalance occured. - That's by the way exactly what you felt in your video, when you said that you feel like you put too much weight on your wrist and can't 'feel it' etc. It's because all your micro muscles that do all the fine motor movements are weak and uncoordinated. But it seems like with time and practice you suddenly learn to controll all of the necessary muscles! To a Comfortable point!! I'm great with both hands 🤗 My 2 cents.
Wow that is so amazing!! I have always had a fascination with left-handedness. No clue why, just completely fascinated. I am 25 and grew up playing piano from a very young age, so I have an advantage with use of my left hand and have never found left hand writing that DIFFICULT mentally, but just the stamina of my hand is poor with writing. How long have you been at this for? Do you feel completely comfortable writing with your left now? I’m fascinated
@@color2066 People like you definitely have some advantage :) Piano is a damn great thing. As mentioned above, around 2.5 years, every single day. Sometimes even more than 3 hours a day. At first I'd fill 2 A4 pages with just the letters: aaaaaaaaaaaa AAAAA And so on. Done it for about a month+ untill felt pretty comfortable, especially with all the round letters. After a while I made a daily habbit to fill an A4 page with thoughts and wishes and kept doing it for more than 2 years. I also practiced drawing steady lines, curves, forms and such (it's very close to writing) and other activities that contribute to my mission. The most important thing you should do is to pay attention! Try to feel anything uncomfortable and work on that. Don't worry about the "hand eye coordination" it'll get better and better as you go. Mimic your dominant hand as much as possible and believe that you'll get past the "It doesn't feel right/natural" :) Yeah, I can write very well now and comfy :) And I can play billiard with whatever hand I want.
Andre Katov WOW thanks for the thorough reply! That is just absolutely excellent! I think tomorrow morning when I wake up I will begin practicing again, thanks to your inspiration fueling motivation in me :) I agree with you, feeling out the weaknesses is very important so we can learn what to work on. This might sound odd but my handwriting with my left hand comes out so much better if I write quickly than if I try to slow down and make it perfect. I have a lot of style in the handwriting and so I think it covers up the weaknesses, like my letters O’s and M’s. Do you slow down when you practice your weaker spots? I also agree that drawing is amazing work. I paint a lot of landscapes and plan to try with my left hand. Drawing is harder though :) Congrats on your success!!
@@color2066 Yeah I slow down at first.. but eventually I'm speeding up. I always compare the one hand to the other to see if I'm proggressing as I should :)
I knew a guy called Daniel who was an artist. He lost his right arm after a motorbike accident, it was his dominant hand. He learnt to draw again with his left. I met him years afterwards. He did it and he was the best artist in our entire Graphic Design degree programme. He was an inspiration. Im learning to write with my non dominant hand this year.
Luke Brown Learns I’m naturally right handed but about 18 months ago I practiced doing 1 handed texting with my LEFT hand when I was sat on the sofa incase I dropped my phone & now I always use my left hand even when I’m walking around but still can handle it just as good with my right hand, I've also started picking up my cup of tea & drinks with my left hand, one weird thing is I've ALWAYS held my Knife & Fork the left handed way round & until my mid teens I wore my watch the left handed way round but I created a challenge for myself to see how long I could go wearing it the right handed way round but EVENTUALLY I got so used to it that I always wear it the right handed way round now but it doesn’t feel weird on the original arm I wore it on, actually I might try wearing it on the original arm I wore it on, I’ve even been practicing writing with my left hand, first I practiced the full alphabet in lower case & capitals & now I’ve began practicing writing sentences in joined up writing with my left hand & it’s getting neater & not taking as long as it did when I first started practicing writing with my left hand
9:30 “ The utility of writing with both hands is impractical.” I am a lefty. I had a serious bicycle accident two weeks ago, shattering my left wrist. It is “out of commission” for two months. Out of necessity, I am learning to write with my right hand. Oh, had I only learned to do this growing up, I wouldn’t be in the pickle I’m in now…File this suggestion in your “you never know“ file!
I've been learning to draw, write and generally use my right hand for a week or two now, it is kinda useful for when you wanna switch things up, and this is actually pretty inspiring. I've also noticed my right hand tends to write in a very simple and professional way, while my left hand tends to be more squashed and fast paced, being slightly leaning but not in a bad way. It was quite interesting to see
Leftie here. I am trying to learn the palmer method of business handwriting with my right hand. What makes it hard is that you don't move your fingers or wrist at all. All the motion is done with the bigger muscles in your arm. I usually get really into it for awhile then life takes over and i forget about it until some months later, but I have made alot of progress overall. I try and do as much with my right hand as possible. Phone goes in right pocket, I do my belt up the oposite way now ect.
Before 1970 the kids here in Austria who were left-handed, HAD to learn to write with their right hand. But most of the Adults (50 Years+) who were left-handed can write ambidextrous
I was left handed for the last 20 years. Using my right hand when writing with consistent practice over the years made it easier for me to write it just flows naturally. Of course I right hand was terrible at first. So I conclude it all boils down with practice.
I'm a lefty, but in the fourth grade I broke my left wrist. I got tired of having to dictate my answers to the teacher and decided I'd just try to write right-handed. She said it looked better than my left-handed writing (I had horrible handwriting for a long time). It's weird because it came really naturally to me at the time, but I've tried it again since and haven't been able to do it.
I write with a pen with my left hand. When I write on a chalkboard or whiteboard, I write with my right hand. This is because it was always hard to keep a straight line and also smearing. I am considering trying to write right-handed as I would like to get into fountain pens. I can right without too much smearing with my left with a fountain pen, but when I hold one in my right had it feels much more natural and the angle of the nip is in a better position. Plus, I've hear it is more arm movement and less finger and wrist movement with fountain pens. It's slow going, but I'm making progress.
It seems the last comments on this video were about 5 years ago but I wanted to answer your question about whether a truly ambidextrous person exists. And the answer is yes. When I was a little girl I had a babysitter and she could write with both hands in opposite directions and in the same direction at the same time it wasn't something she taught herself it was something she was born withit, she could also write upside down with both hands in either direction or opposite directions and both handwritings were beautiful. It was an amazing thing to see!! As a child my left hand was tied down and I was taught to write and eat with my right hand but they failed to control all the other things that I did with my left hand. Because of this my right hand became a bit more dominant by about age 2 1/2 and I was sitting on the floor writing in a little pad of paper and telling my left hand that it wasn't allowed to write until it could write as good as my right hand and I continued to write with my right hand from then on. Skip forward almost 60 years and I had practiced off and on trying to use my left hand again but it always felt uncomfortable except for the things that it could do very well with were most things. The things that weren't controlled. But I got a muscle disorder and ended up in a power wheelchair and when learning to drive it they set it for my right hand and I couldn't drive or control it at all. And then I realized I'm a left-handed driver so I told him to switch the controller to the left side and I was able to drive it easily and very well right away. So I resumed practicing writing with my left hand and became more serious about it and now I'm able to write very nicely with my left hand and it feels at home. It's still has a little bit of fine motor deficit but it's my go to and I feel restored. My wrting is more uniform than my right hand and my thoughts are more connected to my left so I don't make as many mistakes as I did with my right hand. I think I was naturally mixed use or what they call cross dominant but I know I definitely was left handed. From what you say you sound like you are cross dominant also and there are many advantages to that. If you feel inclined to write with your right hand, keep practicing and don't give up. As for those claiming to be truly ambidextrous... that is quite a rare thing and veryVERY few people truly are. Simply writing with both hands does not make someone ambidextrous. Ambidextrousness comes from birth and a person can write forwards backwards upside down in the same direction or opposite directions AT THE SAME TIME. They can do all things equally as well on both sides. I would have been a skeptic if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Learning to do this was easier after playing guitar for 5 years. You build finger strength in your hand. The writing part became more about precision and legibility vs grip strength and coordination.
Thank you for this. For the past few days I've been doing this myself. I'm getting into using a fountain pen, and writing right-handed seems to be far smoother, as the nib glides, rather than stutters, across the paper.
Hello! I am a left-handed artist with 4-5 years of experience, but I got my left hand permanently damaged. It was extremely frustrating at first, giving up all your perspectives.. But now I am excited to unlock my right-hand power :D Starting from today!
Hey bud sorry to hear that. I'm right handed but am starting to learn how to write with my left hand from today. How has your journey been since this comment? 😊
As a child I was ambidextrous I would constantly switch them! My Mom would get so stressed out encouraging me only to use one. Eventually my left hand became my dominant hand. However I never stopped or lost the ability to write with my right hand. I can switch back-and-forth from either hand and my handwriting looks the exact same. I’m trying to learn cursive with my right hand but this has been for challenging for some reason! This video was cool!!! Thank for sharing.
I've been practicing lefty writing for a few weeks now by copying "The Are Of War" and timing how long it takes each hand. So far I've noticed that left takes 4 times longer than right. I've only done block letters, as I cant remember script for the life of me.
i m ambidextrous...Write with Right hand Bowling with Right hand then switch to left hand for all other daily routine tasks...by the way i used to write with both hands till i was 12 then my teacher ask me to select one hand for good hand writing so as the class room chair designed for righties i opted right hand...
I'm trying to learn how to write with my left hand to help with finger dexterity for the piano and so that when I am writing lots (essays, personal, etc.), if my right hand gets tired, I can just go to the left.
My left eye is dominant. I ride a scooter and skateboard goofy (right foot in front, kick with left foot) but kick balls with my right. My right hand is dominant for most things though. So I'm trying to do different things with the left hand. Put toothpaste on a toothbrush and brush with the left. Pick things up and set them down with the left. And yes, write with the left. I'd also like to learn how to play a left-handed guitar, because the ring finger of my left hand doesn't fold (it was cut when I was little) and I can't play some chords with the left hand since the finger covers lower strings. That would be the ultimate challenge
I know someone who is truly ambidextrous she found out because of an assignment in a class that we had to write every day with the opposite hand and she was told to redo it because it was too good. I am ambidextrous with almost everything except writing and painting on paper I paint with both hands, on objects and I can play most sports with both hands too so I say I'm ambidextrous except with writing
The thing is, even if you’re naturally ambidextrous a lot of people don’t know because they were forced to choose a hand when learning to write, and the other hand never learnt, or lost the skill a little. Being naturally ambidextrous is starting every NEW sport or activity with no preference, and feeling just as comfortable with each side. (Also from what I’ve seen if they decide to re-learn the other side, it often comes quicker/easier because they’re obviously more inclined to be able to do it)
My left hand writing and right hand writing are totally different. I don't like crossing midline so I do stuff on my left with my left hand and stuff on my rightwith my right hand. When I was t teacher I'd start on theleft, write to midline, the switch to my right. My students would always freak out!
I'm right-handed. I write cursive with my right hand. When using my left hand My cursive seems to be all backwards so I have to use print with my left. So no matter what I can always tell my right hand from my left hand cause of the different handwriting it's so weird. My dad is both left-handed and right-handed but he is more dominant using his left hand but because he has to have surgery on his left he has to use his right which isn't as good as his left hand. I'm a high school student so practising righting with both my hands shouldn't be difficult. I write using my right when doing stuff in my book and when I have free time in class or at home ill write with my left hand.
This is the same with skateboarding, we have a dominate foot placing on the board (Goofy/Regular). Learning to do/ride in switch is almost riding backwards its really hard to explain but its the same feeling as writing with your less-dominant hand.
If ur using ur non dominant hand for writing, it's a good idea to start small like writing numbers and letters of the alphabet it worked for me I'm getting there
i feel Ambidexterity is very similar to perfect pitch its something you must learn from a very young age but, something very similar can be learned when you are older
i am ambidextrous because i broke my dominant hand and had to learn how to write with my not so dominant hand and i got pretty fluent in both. i don't really practice a lot so i am not used to my left hand more than my right. i basically switched hands over time.
i use my right hand to do most things but some of my most important functions i use my left hand for. i actually cut myself pretty bad today and needed stitches so i need to try to adapt to relying on my right hand for everything
I thought i was left handed my whole but then i found out that i may be mixed handed. Broke my left hand 2 days ago so trying to use my right hand to study. It feels very annoying but i realised that i am actually better at getting used to my non dominant hand than other people. It is probably because i use my right hand for other tasks as much as my left hand. I hope i can learn to write smoothly with my right.
to learn left hand or learn both is to live it, do it what ever your doing even playing guitar, I would enjoy to learn the left hand, wondering where can I find one.
I am a righty. I am training to write with my left hand just so that I can write with both my hands. Also I am sitting at home all day, it wouldn't hurt to write a page or two with my left hand.
Did writing righty ever feel easier from left to right? Surely writing right to left is easier as a righty in the same way as it should be easier to write Arabic (right to left) as a lefty.
So I bat right handed naturally. Last year I tried to bat left handed as well as right handed. I found I was able to make contact but could not get a line drive for my life or go the other way. It felt like there was more I could do with my right side than my left side. I throw right handed but have sometimes tried to throw left handed and have just found it impossible. My arm just doesn't know what to do or where to go and my lower body doesn't know what it is doing either. I think that maybe if I kept up the switch hitting, i.e hitting with both sides, I probably could have become as good if not better on my left side but with throwing that shit is just impossible. I mean there was a guy who could throw with both hands in the majors for awhile but he sucked and was out of pro ball in like a year.
i also learned myself how to write with my right hand but it is not at all similar to my normal lefthanded writing, the position of how i hold my pen and paper is first of all different and i could also call it almost a different fond or style
I started out left handed (“sinister!”) and was forced to become right handed, but ever since even I can’t read my own writing… so I’m thinking about this experiment.
I’m right handed in writing however my hands are equally weak according to my doctor. My left hand is better at everything else but writing then my right. When writing with my left it looks similar but my hand starts hurting and my thumb trembles.
I tried writing cursive with my left hand and I could not believe how easy it was. I even tried using my mouse in my left hand and it did not make a difference. I guess I am not right handed. I thought I was right handed. I am going to do more writing with my left hand. Oh and by the way no one forced me to write with my right hand. So I think ambidexterity is a thing and it occurs naturally.
I throw righty I play baseball and we don't have any lefty throwers on the team and our coach wants a lefty pitcher before season starts so I throw the best lefty on the team so coach wants me to get good at throwing lefty and I'm all in on it so I'm gonna be working on throwing lefty from now until march when season starts with me good luck.
I know why I don't write with my right hand cause my right hands blocks space on the paper while while my left hand is on the opposite side of the direction to which nI writing hence making it much comfortable Awesome I found out why I write with my left hand. Lefties hail.....!
I feel so bad taking my ability to draw well for granted with my left hand cos today I've started trying to write with my right and I'm struggling to make an 'A' and now I understand even if I intend to control my hand one way it won't do it.
I'm left-handed. I'm leaning to write with my right hand, and it seems a lot easier to write with if I only use whole arm movements. My left handed finger writing looks great, but whenever I'm not in my exact writing position it looks god awful. So I'm learning with my right hand, and hoping that I can be proficient with it so I can enjoy writing more. Also, interestingly when I practice with my right hand, I'll start using my phone right handed (scrolling, typing, etc) I've played video games on a controller my whole life, and used a right handed mouse, so I've definitely had some passive practice. Another thing I'd like to mention is there have been times when my mind was focused on something different entirely, and I'll pick up a pen in my right hand and write with it perfectly. Cool video!
i switched mouse hand in 2004 then started writing with it a few years later, and its still impossible to know who wrote my notes unless i sign them. but there is no trick to learning it, you just have to practice practice practice practice
I was born left handed and the reason I can write with my right is cause of football. I wanted to become like Messi who used his right foot a bit although he is left footed. So I somehow gained the ambidextrous skill in my hand also and it was really good.
Hi! Im ambidextrous 43yo woman, mother of 5, surgeon....my operation nurses are always frustrated how to set an operation table and where to set a nurse table when operating with me
Do you really only have ONE handwriting? I discovered that I have TWO...depending on if I'm "over writing" or "under writing". If you're interested, here is where I found this... ua-cam.com/video/-G8EPWVjCL0/v-deo.html I always just thought I was inconsistent in handwriting...turns out I've been "consistently inconsistent"! Ha!
Do you think about how you hold and work the pen with the hand you normally write with and reverse it in your mind it will make it a lot easier I trained myself to write left-handed and I'm a natural right hander when I was in high school and I can write almost more readability with my left hand then I came right but my right hand can write just a little faster.
Im here because im a left-handed and when i write to whiteboard my hand erases it if i put my hand on the whiteboard. But if i dont put it i write really ugly.
Actually my mom did it for me 😐😅 When i was start school i wrote with my left hand but my mom didnt let me do that ans said i must write with my right hand , well now im 17 years old and i do my works with two hands
I write and throw with my right hand but i bat in soft ball or eat or play field hockey with my left. Sometimes i wonder if i was meant to be left handed😂
Being left handed my handwriting had been horrible in my younger years but now when I write with my write it looks the same as my old sloppy 7th grade writing
hey man this video did really encourage me to practice my left hand, I just started a while ago and I noticed that my handwriting in english alphabet is so bad compare to the korean alphabet lmao i hope you'll get more subscribers 🙌
So when I was a kid I wrote with my right hand cause that's what they taught us in school. However, I didn't want to be like all the other kids and ended up practising with my left hand. I now write with my left but do everything else with my right :')
Why? Being left-handed sucks when it comes to writing. We constantly get smudge marks all over our paper from having to gloss over the text and then getting it on our hands.
The real test is, can you write legibly at usual speed, and is it comfortable when you do so? Because if it's still uncomfortable and feeling unnatural, I wouldn't call it ambidexterity.
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And they are not able to left😆😆
nobodycares I am left-handed
I am right handed
FlaminFighter ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
I’m left handed
Should've thought about that during my collage days, finding a left-handed chair is like finding a shiny pokemon
You mean college
I've learned to say fuck it and just sit in a right handed desk. I learn to adapt
Love the comparison.
You just sit and turn a little your body to the right, so your elbow is in the part where it's supposed to be your notebook and your notebook is a little leaned to the left. Idk, I've done it that way
Is this an American joke I'm too European to understand?
I was born left handed but forced to be right handed. Recently, I've been recovering the sacred ability of writing with my left hand and this video really inspired me! I'm shocked you don't have more subscribers!
Same thing happened to me I am naturally left handed but as a child I was taught to write throw and kick with my right hand but I have been practicing all of those thing recently with my left hand how are you coming along since your comment was 10 months ago.
same bro
At last group of people with same history , i am from india ,,, being lefty is so different ,the best part is people looking at us and saying wow you write with left hand,,, but the only thing worth for all the struggle is taken away from us by forcing and training us to write with our right hand ,,, it is indeed a big struggle to achieve your nondominent hand for writing ,,, we ll be writing thrice copys than our fellows,,, but now i too feel , i should train my dominant hand for this
same(I think? I'm not 100 percent sure)
Same here i was also left handed later on i was forced to become right handed
I've been ambidextrous my whole life and I'm so confused by the idea that one hand ... just doesn't
Just a side note I was encouraged to use both hands as a child for everything so that's why
Aurum Gold I wish my parents did that to me ;-;
I’m like idk 55:45 righty so... I’m also confused by the idea that one hand just... is drunk. One hand is like “I’m epic” and the other is “ukbsluf” it just... is weird.
Well good on you
Well my left hand can only write yet my right can only do everything else like : cook, use a mouse, throw punch yet I just don’t write as well
I had been right handed most of my life. I had to switch to left 17 years ago because of chronic pain in the right shoulder. Yes it takes time and lots of practice. It is true that a person will lose the skill in the other hand if not used.
It took a couple years of solid work and practice.
I doubt you’ll lose the skill fast probably over years and years of ignoring your dominant hand
Rip right hand
Charles wiens I am trying to become better with my left hand at 10 so if anything happens I can be all right.
Et- Shvxd YT same with me I’m also 10 I broke my left hand a few days ago now I’m struggling with my right hand how do you peoples write like this☹️
When I was a little kid, I was ambidextrous, but my 1st grade teacher (I was 7) told me to pick a hand and stick with it because she hated that my writing always had a slight difference when I would hand in my work. I chose my right hand, unfortunately, I slowly lost the ability to write with my left hand. Years later, I am now learning how to write with my left hand again. It's pretty messy but its getting better. This video helped me learn some tactics to keep the improvement going, I'm glad I found this video, thank you!
do you still use your left hand now? and if yes, how is it going?
I'm sure your 1st grade teacher had your best interest in mind, but at the same time-man... In hindsight; it's not really a teacher's place to be making those kinds of judgements to begin with (especially in dealing with impressionable youth).
I believe that ambidexterity is something we're all capable of attaining (and should be encouraged to do so). I'm 25 as I write this comment, and I've been leaning in to my left-handedness the ENTIRE ¼ of my life.
When I was really young-I even had a really bad habit of only using my left hand to type when using a keyboard. My excuse was, it was more 'comfortable'. When in the grander scheme of things; this kind of mentality is NOT good.
I was also a very stubborn kid and neglected the wise advice I was once given by an adult to practice typing with both hands because it was the traditional/conventional way of typing.
I just completed filling two seperate pages with one sentence today; one with my left hand and one with my right.
I'm gonna do the same for the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase) and geometric shapes.
It's only Day 1 and I'm feeling (and seeing) the visual difference, and it's very interesting! Truly like looking at a live journal of my writing as a present-day adult, back to when I was a kid barely knowing how to write/even hold a pen properly.
Confidence is key. Perfection isn't just given out-but earned.
Practice makes perfect! I will become ambidextrous.
"If you can read that, follow the instructions" - Oh I could not stop laughing at this
Randall Smith that was the point when I threw my phone and started laughing on the floor 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😭ikr
Where my leftiess😂💯??
Here I am!!!
Not here but soon enough I'll be here (^_^👍)
@@angelstarfire well it is hard and a lot of struggles so think smart❤
Sadly me ... I would ten times prefer to be a righty
HERE I AM !!!!
I sufer tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand, I am learning to use my left hand in case I am unable to draw ever again, atm I am depressed due to this problem but if I am able to get ambidextrious in the future it would help me a lot to balance the load on my right hand.
Guys who have never suffered from these pains, please be careful on how you use your thecnology and your health in general, is so frustrating when you feel useless, when you are not able even to do simple tasks.
I will continue in this, I need it to recover part of my life.
My handwriting with my dominant hands is terrible. I prefer to type. I can type about as fast as normal speech (and I used to do that as a job, relaying phone calls for deaf and hard of hearing people)
Handwriting can suck it IMHO
I've heard being left handed can give you an edge in certain competitive athletic activities, if your opponent is not used to left handed opponents.
Oh you mentioned the sports thing anyway lol
Welp, some people out there are jealous, according to a 2-year investigation.
very late reply from me, but it's true! I kind of play volleyball and I know that lots of receivers have trouble receiving left handed spikes. It does give a little advantage.
I'm 2+ years in the same project(daily).
I'm getting really close to a perfect point! I've truly done it all and mastered the most! I've even learned other abilities by doing it, like juggling 4 balls, boxing + weaker stance(southpaw), drawing, throwing and many more.
It's amazing.
I can't really describe the mental struggle I went through but it's an unforgettable experience & experiment for me!
I even suffered from a tendon inflammation because some of my hand muscles were over loaded while the other muscles were "asleep" and an imbalance occured. - That's by the way exactly what you felt in your video, when you said that you feel like you put too much weight on your wrist and can't 'feel it' etc.
It's because all your micro muscles that do all the fine motor movements are weak and uncoordinated.
But it seems like with time and practice you suddenly learn to controll all of the necessary muscles! To a Comfortable point!!
I'm great with both hands 🤗
My 2 cents.
Wow that is so amazing!! I have always had a fascination with left-handedness. No clue why, just completely fascinated. I am 25 and grew up playing piano from a very young age, so I have an advantage with use of my left hand and have never found left hand writing that DIFFICULT mentally, but just the stamina of my hand is poor with writing. How long have you been at this for? Do you feel completely comfortable writing with your left now? I’m fascinated
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People like you definitely have some advantage :) Piano is a damn great thing.
As mentioned above, around 2.5 years, every single day. Sometimes even more than 3 hours a day.
At first I'd fill 2 A4 pages with just the letters:
aaaaaaaaaaaa
AAAAA
And so on.
Done it for about a month+ untill felt pretty comfortable, especially with all the round letters.
After a while I made a daily habbit to fill an A4 page with thoughts and wishes and kept doing it for more than 2 years.
I also practiced drawing steady lines, curves, forms and such (it's very close to writing) and other activities that contribute to my mission.
The most important thing you should do is to pay attention! Try to feel anything uncomfortable and work on that.
Don't worry about the "hand eye coordination" it'll get better and better as you go.
Mimic your dominant hand as much as possible and believe that you'll get past the "It doesn't feel right/natural"
:)
Yeah, I can write very well now and comfy :)
And I can play billiard with whatever hand I want.
Andre Katov WOW thanks for the thorough reply! That is just absolutely excellent! I think tomorrow morning when I wake up I will begin practicing again, thanks to your inspiration fueling motivation in me :) I agree with you, feeling out the weaknesses is very important so we can learn what to work on. This might sound odd but my handwriting with my left hand comes out so much better if I write quickly than if I try to slow down and make it perfect. I have a lot of style in the handwriting and so I think it covers up the weaknesses, like my letters O’s and M’s. Do you slow down when you practice your weaker spots? I also agree that drawing is amazing work. I paint a lot of landscapes and plan to try with my left hand. Drawing is harder though :) Congrats on your success!!
@@color2066 Yeah I slow down at first.. but eventually I'm speeding up. I always compare the one hand to the other to see if I'm proggressing as I should :)
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I knew a guy called Daniel who was an artist. He lost his right arm after a motorbike accident, it was his dominant hand. He learnt to draw again with his left. I met him years afterwards. He did it and he was the best artist in our entire Graphic Design degree programme. He was an inspiration. Im learning to write with my non dominant hand this year.
Luke Brown Learns I’m naturally right handed but about 18 months ago I practiced doing 1 handed texting with my LEFT hand when I was sat on the sofa incase I dropped my phone & now I always use my left hand even when I’m walking around but still can handle it just as good with my right hand, I've also started picking up my cup of tea & drinks with my left hand, one weird thing is I've ALWAYS held my Knife & Fork the left handed way round & until my mid teens I wore my watch the left handed way round but I created a challenge for myself to see how long I could go wearing it the right handed way round but EVENTUALLY I got so used to it that I always wear it the right handed way round now but it doesn’t feel weird on the original arm I wore it on, actually I might try wearing it on the original arm I wore it on, I’ve even been practicing writing with my left hand, first I practiced the full alphabet in lower case & capitals & now I’ve began practicing writing sentences in joined up writing with my left hand & it’s getting neater & not taking as long as it did when I first started practicing writing with my left hand
9:30 “ The utility of writing with both hands is impractical.” I am a lefty. I had a serious bicycle accident two weeks ago, shattering my left wrist. It is “out of commission” for two months. Out of necessity, I am learning to write with my right hand. Oh, had I only learned to do this growing up, I wouldn’t be in the pickle I’m in now…File this suggestion in your “you never know“ file!
I've been learning to draw, write and generally use my right hand for a week or two now, it is kinda useful for when you wanna switch things up, and this is actually pretty inspiring.
I've also noticed my right hand tends to write in a very simple and professional way, while my left hand tends to be more squashed and fast paced, being slightly leaning but not in a bad way. It was quite interesting to see
Leftie here. I am trying to learn the palmer method of business handwriting with my right hand. What makes it hard is that you don't move your fingers or wrist at all. All the motion is done with the bigger muscles in your arm. I usually get really into it for awhile then life takes over and i forget about it until some months later, but I have made alot of progress overall. I try and do as much with my right hand as possible. Phone goes in right pocket, I do my belt up the oposite way now ect.
Before 1970 the kids here in Austria who were left-handed, HAD to learn to write with their right hand. But most of the Adults (50 Years+) who were left-handed can write ambidextrous
I still can’t grasp my head around at your amount of subscribers
you’re doing something amazing
learning
I immidietly subscribed, I loved this video!
Left-handed doctor writing with his RIGHT HAND
lol
I was left handed for the last 20 years. Using my right hand when writing with consistent practice over the years made it easier for me to write it just flows naturally. Of course I right hand was terrible at first.
So I conclude it all boils down with practice.
I'm a lefty, but in the fourth grade I broke my left wrist. I got tired of having to dictate my answers to the teacher and decided I'd just try to write right-handed. She said it looked better than my left-handed writing (I had horrible handwriting for a long time). It's weird because it came really naturally to me at the time, but I've tried it again since and haven't been able to do it.
I write with a pen with my left hand. When I write on a chalkboard or whiteboard, I write with my right hand. This is because it was always hard to keep a straight line and also smearing. I am considering trying to write right-handed as I would like to get into fountain pens. I can right without too much smearing with my left with a fountain pen, but when I hold one in my right had it feels much more natural and the angle of the nip is in a better position. Plus, I've hear it is more arm movement and less finger and wrist movement with fountain pens. It's slow going, but I'm making progress.
It seems the last comments on this video were about 5 years ago but I wanted to answer your question about whether a truly ambidextrous person exists. And the answer is yes. When I was a little girl I had a babysitter and she could write with both hands in opposite directions and in the same direction at the same time it wasn't something she taught herself it was something she was born withit, she could also write upside down with both hands in either direction or opposite directions and both handwritings were beautiful. It was an amazing thing to see!!
As a child my left hand was tied down and I was taught to write and eat with my right hand but they failed to control all the other things that I did with my left hand. Because of this my right hand became a bit more dominant by about age 2 1/2 and I was sitting on the floor writing in a little pad of paper and telling my left hand that it wasn't allowed to write until it could write as good as my right hand and I continued to write with my right hand from then on. Skip forward almost 60 years and I had practiced off and on trying to use my left hand again but it always felt uncomfortable except for the things that it could do very well with were most things. The things that weren't controlled. But I got a muscle disorder and ended up in a power wheelchair and when learning to drive it they set it for my right hand and I couldn't drive or control it at all. And then I realized I'm a left-handed driver so I told him to switch the controller to the left side and I was able to drive it easily and very well right away. So I resumed practicing writing with my left hand and became more serious about it and now I'm able to write very nicely with my left hand and it feels at home. It's still has a little bit of fine motor deficit but it's my go to and I feel restored. My wrting is more uniform than my right hand and my thoughts are more connected to my left so I don't make as many mistakes as I did with my right hand. I think I was naturally mixed use or what they call cross dominant but I know I definitely was left handed. From what you say you sound like you are cross dominant also and there are many advantages to that. If you feel inclined to write with your right hand, keep practicing and don't give up. As for those claiming to be truly ambidextrous... that is quite a rare thing and veryVERY few people truly are. Simply writing with both hands does not make someone ambidextrous. Ambidextrousness comes from birth and a person can write forwards backwards upside down in the same direction or opposite directions AT THE SAME TIME. They can do all things equally as well on both sides. I would have been a skeptic if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Learning to do this was easier after playing guitar for 5 years. You build finger strength in your hand. The writing part became more about precision and legibility vs grip strength and coordination.
Thank you for this. For the past few days I've been doing this myself. I'm getting into using a fountain pen, and writing right-handed seems to be far smoother, as the nib glides, rather than stutters, across the paper.
Thanks for this vid.
I've been trying to learn writing with my other hand.
Hello! I am a left-handed artist with 4-5 years of experience, but I got my left hand permanently damaged. It was extremely frustrating at first, giving up all your perspectives..
But now I am excited to unlock my right-hand power :D Starting from today!
Hey bud sorry to hear that. I'm right handed but am starting to learn how to write with my left hand from today.
How has your journey been since this comment? 😊
As a child I was ambidextrous I would constantly switch them! My Mom would get so stressed out encouraging me only to use one. Eventually my left hand became my dominant hand. However I never stopped or lost the ability to write with my right hand. I can switch back-and-forth from either hand and my handwriting looks the exact same. I’m trying to learn cursive with my right hand but this has been for challenging for some reason! This video was cool!!! Thank for sharing.
I've been practicing lefty writing for a few weeks now by copying "The Are Of War" and timing how long it takes each hand. So far I've noticed that left takes 4 times longer than right. I've only done block letters, as I cant remember script for the life of me.
Your left handed writing is FIRE!!!
i m ambidextrous...Write with Right hand Bowling with Right hand then switch to left hand for all other daily routine tasks...by the way i used to write with both hands till i was 12 then my teacher ask me to select one hand for good hand writing so as the class room chair designed for righties i opted right hand...
I'm trying to learn how to write with my left hand to help with finger dexterity for the piano and so that when I am writing lots (essays, personal, etc.), if my right hand gets tired, I can just go to the left.
My left eye is dominant. I ride a scooter and skateboard goofy (right foot in front, kick with left foot) but kick balls with my right.
My right hand is dominant for most things though. So I'm trying to do different things with the left hand. Put toothpaste on a toothbrush and brush with the left. Pick things up and set them down with the left. And yes, write with the left.
I'd also like to learn how to play a left-handed guitar, because the ring finger of my left hand doesn't fold (it was cut when I was little) and I can't play some chords with the left hand since the finger covers lower strings. That would be the ultimate challenge
I'm here bc of quarantine, I have nothing better to do xD So I'm going to learn to write with my non dominant hand
I know someone who is truly ambidextrous she found out because of an assignment in a class that we had to write every day with the opposite hand and she was told to redo it because it was too good.
I am ambidextrous with almost everything except writing and painting on paper I paint with both hands, on objects and I can play most sports with both hands too so I say I'm ambidextrous except with writing
The thing is, even if you’re naturally ambidextrous a lot of people don’t know because they were forced to choose a hand when learning to write, and the other hand never learnt, or lost the skill a little. Being naturally ambidextrous is starting every NEW sport or activity with no preference, and feeling just as comfortable with each side. (Also from what I’ve seen if they decide to re-learn the other side, it often comes quicker/easier because they’re obviously more inclined to be able to do it)
My left hand writing and right hand writing are totally different. I don't like crossing midline so I do stuff on my left with my left hand and stuff on my rightwith my right hand. When I was t teacher I'd start on theleft, write to midline, the switch to my right. My students would always freak out!
I just subscribed, I hope you're still active! Definitely looking forward to see more from you 😊
I'm right-handed. I write cursive with my right hand. When using my left hand My cursive seems to be all backwards so I have to use print with my left. So no matter what I can always tell my right hand from my left hand cause of the different handwriting it's so weird. My dad is both left-handed and right-handed but he is more dominant using his left hand but because he has to have surgery on his left he has to use his right which isn't as good as his left hand. I'm a high school student so practising righting with both my hands shouldn't be difficult. I write using my right when doing stuff in my book and when I have free time in class or at home ill write with my left hand.
This is the same with skateboarding, we have a dominate foot placing on the board (Goofy/Regular). Learning to do/ride in switch is almost riding backwards its really hard to explain but its the same feeling as writing with your less-dominant hand.
If ur using ur non dominant hand for writing, it's a good idea to start small like writing numbers and letters of the alphabet it worked for me I'm getting there
i feel Ambidexterity is very similar to perfect pitch its something you must learn from a very young age but, something very similar can be learned when you are older
i am ambidextrous because i broke my dominant hand and had to learn how to write with my not so dominant hand and i got pretty fluent in both. i don't really practice a lot so i am not used to my left hand more than my right. i basically switched hands over time.
You have a left handed subscriber now...
0:11 ITS DEFINITELY ME OMG i've wanted to be able to write with my left hand for months and I just cant get the right way to make it
Plus the angling has to be almost opposite so it's not just using a different hand, it also is learning different posture plus many more other things.
I am learning to write with my left hand since a while.... and I can feel very much the change in my brain. Feels weird
Me too
How has it been going?
me as a leftie here because my smudging is so bad that it ruins my projects
i use my right hand to do most things but some of my most important functions i use my left hand for. i actually cut myself pretty bad today and needed stitches so i need to try to adapt to relying on my right hand for everything
i also work as a cook and need to figure out how i'm going to cut food and do dishes with one hand
ps learning to dribbling in basketball with the left hand was hard but it was alot easier than trying to write with my left hand
Thank you, looks like a fun challenge.
New subscriber, looking forward to seeing more videos.
I thought i was left handed my whole but then i found out that i may be mixed handed. Broke my left hand 2 days ago so trying to use my right hand to study. It feels very annoying but i realised that i am actually better at getting used to my non dominant hand than other people. It is probably because i use my right hand for other tasks as much as my left hand. I hope i can learn to write smoothly with my right.
to learn left hand or learn both is to live it, do it what ever your doing even playing guitar, I would enjoy to learn the left hand, wondering where can I find one.
I am a righty. I am training to write with my left hand just so that I can write with both my hands. Also I am sitting at home all day, it wouldn't hurt to write a page or two with my left hand.
i am having a disorder called writer's cramp so, i stared out to write with my non dominant hand i see there is an improvement for it
Did writing righty ever feel easier from left to right?
Surely writing right to left is easier as a righty in the same way as it should be easier to write Arabic (right to left) as a lefty.
So I bat right handed naturally. Last year I tried to bat left handed as well as right handed. I found I was able to make contact but could not get a line drive for my life or go the other way. It felt like there was more I could do with my right side than my left side. I throw right handed but have sometimes tried to throw left handed and have just found it impossible. My arm just doesn't know what to do or where to go and my lower body doesn't know what it is doing either. I think that maybe if I kept up the switch hitting, i.e hitting with both sides, I probably could have become as good if not better on my left side but with throwing that shit is just impossible. I mean there was a guy who could throw with both hands in the majors for awhile but he sucked and was out of pro ball in like a year.
1:54 😂😂😭 I'm done
Most underrated UA-camr.
i also learned myself how to write with my right hand but it is not at all similar to my normal lefthanded writing, the position of how i hold my pen and paper is first of all different and i could also call it almost a different fond or style
I started out left handed (“sinister!”) and was forced to become right handed, but ever since even I can’t read my own writing… so I’m thinking about this experiment.
I’m right handed in writing however my hands are equally weak according to my doctor. My left hand is better at everything else but writing then my right. When writing with my left it looks similar but my hand starts hurting and my thumb trembles.
I'm right handed and i face same when I write with left
Thanks
Now I feel like fit in here.
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I tried writing cursive with my left hand and I could not believe how easy it was. I even tried using my mouse in my left hand and it did not make a difference. I guess I am not right handed. I thought I was right handed. I am going to do more writing with my left hand. Oh and by the way no one forced me to write with my right hand. So I think ambidexterity is a thing and it occurs naturally.
I throw righty I play baseball and we don't have any lefty throwers on the team and our coach wants a lefty pitcher before season starts so I throw the best lefty on the team so coach wants me to get good at throwing lefty and I'm all in on it so I'm gonna be working on throwing lefty from now until march when season starts with me good luck.
I know why I don't write with my right hand cause my right hands blocks space on the paper while while my left hand is on the opposite side of the direction to which nI writing hence making it much comfortable
Awesome I found out why I write with my left hand.
Lefties hail.....!
i am contented to my left handed writing
I feel so bad taking my ability to draw well for granted with my left hand cos today I've started trying to write with my right and I'm struggling to make an 'A' and now I understand even if I intend to control my hand one way it won't do it.
I'm left-handed. I'm leaning to write with my right hand, and it seems a lot easier to write with if I only use whole arm movements.
My left handed finger writing looks great, but whenever I'm not in my exact writing position it looks god awful.
So I'm learning with my right hand, and hoping that I can be proficient with it so I can enjoy writing more.
Also, interestingly when I practice with my right hand, I'll start using my phone right handed (scrolling, typing, etc) I've played video games on a controller my whole life, and used a right handed mouse, so I've definitely had some passive practice.
Another thing I'd like to mention is there have been times when my mind was focused on something different entirely, and I'll pick up a pen in my right hand and write with it perfectly.
Cool video!
My Friends: *Right Hand Left Hand*
Me: *Ambidextrous*
i switched mouse hand in 2004 then started writing with it a few years later, and its still impossible to know who wrote my notes unless i sign them. but there is no trick to learning it, you just have to practice practice practice practice
I was born left handed and the reason I can write with my right is cause of football. I wanted to become like Messi who used his right foot a bit although he is left footed. So I somehow gained the ambidextrous skill in my hand also and it was really good.
I'm trying this challenge and I'm also left handed and it's hard to find videos of learning to write with your right hand
Leftie and broke my pinky...
Now it's time to start my ambidextrous journey
As a lefty, how do right handed people see when writing? I don't understand. My thumb is getting in the way.
Hi! Im ambidextrous 43yo woman, mother of 5, surgeon....my operation nurses are always frustrated how to set an operation table and where to set a nurse table when operating with me
Do you really only have ONE handwriting? I discovered that I have TWO...depending on if I'm "over writing" or "under writing". If you're interested, here is where I found this... ua-cam.com/video/-G8EPWVjCL0/v-deo.html
I always just thought I was inconsistent in handwriting...turns out I've been "consistently inconsistent"! Ha!
Do you think about how you hold and work the pen with the hand you normally write with and reverse it in your mind it will make it a lot easier I trained myself to write left-handed and I'm a natural right hander when I was in high school and I can write almost more readability with my left hand then I came right but my right hand can write just a little faster.
Im here because im a left-handed and when i write to whiteboard my hand erases it if i put my hand on the whiteboard. But if i dont put it i write really ugly.
Lol I'm exactly the same. I write with my left hand, but I do a lot of things with my right hand and also a lot of things with my left hand.
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Actually my mom did it for me 😐😅
When i was start school i wrote with my left hand but my mom didnt let me do that ans said i must write with my right hand , well now im 17 years old and i do my works with two hands
Love the two Native cedar flutes behind him. 🧐🧐🧐
My name Dinah I'm in J.H B LENASIA Im using both of my hands.I used to think my left is stronger but I realize that it is stronger only in writing
Nice video - thanks!
I write and throw with my right hand but i bat in soft ball or eat or play field hockey with my left. Sometimes i wonder if i was meant to be left handed😂
I’m starting to do this because I’m soon going to college and I also get bullied a lot so let’s see how it goes
This is more than a project. Isn't it like learning a new language?
Learning a language is waaaay easier
Being left handed my handwriting had been horrible in my younger years but now when I write with my write it looks the same as my old sloppy 7th grade writing
Wig Snatched “write with my write”
I can drawing, writing, and do much activities with my both hand very well
I can typing both with hands very well
your ambidextrous
hey man this video did really encourage me to practice my left hand, I just started a while ago and I noticed that my handwriting in english alphabet is so bad compare to the korean alphabet lmao i hope you'll get more subscribers 🙌
So when I was a kid I wrote with my right hand cause that's what they taught us in school. However, I didn't want to be like all the other kids and ended up practising with my left hand. I now write with my left but do everything else with my right :')
Why? Being left-handed sucks when it comes to writing. We constantly get smudge marks all over our paper from having to gloss over the text and then getting it on our hands.
it's too late to go back now
I found out not to long ago that I can use chopsticks and use both hands also.
YOU SHOULD HAVE 1M subs
I didn't realise you were such a small youtuber. I expected you to have around 45K at this point.
The real test is, can you write legibly at usual speed, and is it comfortable when you do so? Because if it's still uncomfortable and feeling unnatural, I wouldn't call it ambidexterity.
I feel like trying to write with you left hand is hard ass hell since it is blocking what you are writing
What an amazing vid!