I started straight shaving after Christmas, and joined this forum shortly after. I read quite a bit to start off, I know a bunch of noobs asking the same questions day in and day out can get old. One thing I saw a lot was people seem to have more issues shaving with their off hand (which makes sense). I saw the suggestions of practicing with a butter knife come up time and again in order to get used to the motion, but so far I haven't needed this and I wondered why. In fact, my off hand is more steady with the razor than my dominant hand. I thought about it, and I think it comes down to dexterity in the hand.

Tying this back to the butter knife, I realized that since I learned how to handle my utensils properly with both hands at an early age between breaking limbs playing sports and parents that enforced etiquette (and wanting to shovel food into my mouth faster), I have a fair amount of dexterity in both hands. My thought for noobs like myself was that you could build dexterity and the small control and stabilizer muscles in your off hand by swapping your knife and your fork 3 times a day. That would give you more time practicing manipulating small instruments, and if you coupled that with the butter knife shaving practice, the slope of the learning curve could be increased.

Just a thought I had on a Saturday night, might be old news but I hadn't seen it mentioned.