When fencing, left-handed people have the significant advantage of being able to dramatically switch their rapier from their right hand to their left hand, mid-combat, and announce that they are not really right-handed.
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No-one hates fencing a lefty quite like another lefty.
Realistically, I found left handed opponents to be more difficult to compete against.
It took me longer to learn their body movements that would indicate a strike, and where they are aiming. It wast just less intuitive.
Also, fencing a little person was a somewhat unique experience. Totally threw me off my game.
I did that in badminton. I'm the beginning I swapped hands when they weren't looking. Once they caught on, of randomly swap whenever.
Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.
Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.
Either everyone knows how to compensate for a southpaw or everyone is a southpaw. Fencing is a lefty's game.
I'm told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.
May also have been a subtle way to help protect in case the castle was stormed. I've certainly heard of castles where the steps were sometimes irregular heights - those who lived there would be used to it, but invaders would not and would find it harder to move effectively. A differently spiralling stair might have the same effect.
Seems that doesn't work quite as well in tennis, where pretty much all the time 15 to 25% of the top 100 ranked players are left handed.
Only left-handed people are in their right mind
God this is so good
Yes but good luck with scissors 😭😭😭 I fucking hate that thing
After 30+ years, I finally bought myself a nice pair of left handed scissors.
If I'm being honest, I'm so used to right handed ones, that the lefty ones feel wrong anyway.
Fortunately, me and a pal were the reason our kindergarden bought some lefty scissors.
it's actually a good idea. I once saw a store with many "for left handed" products. But most of them aren't really necessary because you just get used to the regular ones.
A boxing coach once told me it's harder to fight lefties because they go against what you've trained for.
It's true of all combat sports, and, to some degree, any other sport in which you go face to face with your opponent.
And although it might be true that at the very very top levels people both learn to be more ambidextrous (so that there's less of a mismatch between sides whether right or left handed) and are more experienced/skilled at dealing with left handed opponents, the early years of learning the sport will weed out fewer left handed people so that the top levels have more left handed people.
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It can be beneficial for a lot of sports
You are born an outsider. This allows you to understand the world more clearly at a younger age. Not sure what advantages this may give but it's reality.
Due to it being a right handed world, most lefties are much better at using their non dominant hand for things. I can operate power tools, golf putt, easily drive a stick shift in any country, and do all sorts of things with my dominant or non dominant hand. Sometimes if I'm doing something that's making my hand or arm tired, I'll just do it with the other. Sure, it's not as good as using my left hand, but it still gets the job done.
Bonus points when playing pickleball or table tennis or tennis or whatever and I switch hands to reach and hit an otherwise out of reach ball in just the nick of time.
Training people in surgical techniques is way easier in lefties because most have been imitating right handed people so have some degree of ambidexterity. When you tell a right handed person to do precision movements with their left hand it fucks them up for a while.
I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we're used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.
We don't have to switch hands with our forks in order to pick up a knife.
Forks are on the left for a reason.
When I play basketball, it gives a slight advantage in the beginning when opponents don’t know I’m a lefty because they automatically assume I shoot with my right.
Also, being able to naturally drive one handed in a left-hand drive car.
Left handed people are superior beings
We are simply better than the rights
but it takes three lefties to get it right.
You get to call yourself widdershins.
Back when automated toll booths had baskets to throw coins in, I could easily pay tolls at around 45 mph.
EZ pass eventually became a thing, probably saved me from my own young stupidity.
in fencing left handed people have a slight advantage, since left handed people are used to fighting right handed people but righties aren't used to fencing lefties. other than that it's probably worse since it looks like writing left handed is more annoying
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See life from the side of not being the "norm".
My gf thinks lefties are hot. I don't understand but I got an advantage there 🤷♂️
Good thing you're lefthanded!
I don't know, but I assume it comes with some benefits. If not, why make the pact with the devil in the first place?
Meanwhile those of us ambidextrous.............
We save money on potato peelers because the right handed people in the family use the other side of the blade and so it lasts twice as wrong.
Downside is right harders want to trade peelers with us not realizing that there are right handers in the family and so ours are dull on both sides.
I can't think of any time I've felt lile being left-handed is an advantage.
From memory, we are statistically more likely to be geniuses. Unfortunately we are also equally as more likely to be clinically insane.
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Lefthandedness increases your probability of becoming a U.S. president
You're never right 🤷
In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it's a plus.
After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they're part of a class doing pencil and paper time.
It’s a conversation starter when you see another leftie in the field.
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