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I have a theory...and as with most theories, if I can get enough people to agree with me then it must be the truth.:)
I often read how newbies to SR shaving find the switching of the razor from right to left hand is more difficult. I am left handed...so living in a right handed world we lefties tend to be more ambidextrous than your average Joe. I find switching my SR from left to right to be very easy for me. I wonder if other lefties have noticed this?
I can't speak for righties but I became comfortable in a few shaves and after a month or so it was completely natural. I don't think the world being predominantly right handed has much to do with it. Shaving is a fine motor skill. I wouldn't want someone to see how poorly I write with my opposite hand.
Lefty here as well. Didn't take too long to train the right side. A couple of shaves. Much easier than all the contortions and gyrations of trying to use my left only.
I originally learned to play golf right-handed because we couldn't afford another set of clubs, much less the rare (back then) lefty clubs. Got a set of lefty clubs my freshman year of college and changed over quickly. Freaks people out when they see both types of clubs in my bag.
Just to blow your theory up and support it at the same time. People are varying degrees of handedness. Some people are extreme dominant on one side or the other, the are by far a minority. Most people have some level of dexterity with both hands, some more than others, but do have a dominant hand. True ambidextrous people are very rare at the other far end of the scale. So the majority of people will be able to switch back and forth with a short learning curve. I am a lefty and switched hands on my first shave and my right learned at the same time as my left. I too can do many things with both hands and some things I can only do right handed. My mother on the other hand is so left handed that she has a hard time vacuuming with her right hand. I used to say the definition of confusion was easily demonstrated by giving a right handed person a left handed pair of scissors.
I'm left-handed and shaved with both hands the first shave with a straight. The learning curve was very short.
Being left-handed, I am going to somewhat disagree with ResDog (sorry). Left-handed people are often required to use their right hands for many tasks therefore, they develop all possible dexterity in their right hands. Right-handed people born with the same propensity for dexterity in their left hands rarely develop it due to lack of use.
Left-handed people tend to be more ambidextrous due to their forced use of their right hand
I hope this makes sense.
i am a lefty, and rarely use my right, it is getting a bit easier but i am still clumsy with itQuote:
Originally Posted by Whizbang
I am a lefty as well and have been shaving with my right hand from day 1. Surprisingly I have only cut myself with my left hand. I feel I concentrate more with my right.
I also agree that lefties are more ambidextrous then righties because we are forced to do thing with our right hands more.
Lefty here, and yeah I started with both hands. Glad I did. Being a builder some tools are designed for right hand only so you have to use them like that. I think that helped. Still looking for a good left hand hammer...
I write left-handed, eat right-handed, rifle left, handgun right, and on and on it goes. Shaving with both hands from day one. I like your theory.
It's really not a theory it's the truth and well known. Of course some lefties are better with their right than others but if you go out on the street and pick 10 righties and ten lefties at random and make them use their off hand to do a variety of tasks the lefties will do far better than the righties.
Back in the old days and in many cultures to this day lefthanded people are seen as evil or bad and these folks in school are forced to use their right hands for everything.