Sunday, August 18, 2019

Good things about being right handed, but left eye dominant (or vise versa).

Only 10% (approx.) of people in the world are left handed, but about 1/3 of people in the world are left-eye dominant. This means plenty of people are right-handed and left-eye dominant, although some people are left-handed and right eye dominant. I fall into the former category, so I can only assume people who fall in either category experience what I do. This makes some sports and activities hard (for example, we had a unit on archery in PE and I tried a left-handed bow for my better eye, but my left arm was just too weak to pull back well enough. I switched to a right-hand bow and my glasses were able to help my eye enough to do the sport.) However, there are good things about being cross dominant.


  1. You are more flexible about which side of the road to drive on. I have noticed I tend to switch which eye I look out of when I look in the rear view mirror and I switch between using the interior and exterior mirror. If your home country drives on the right and you are right handed, while using your left hand will feel weird, you will have an advantage over others because you are on your dominant side either way. (For instance, in the US, I am on my dominant hand side, and in the UK, I would be on my dominant eye side.)
  2. You might become better with your non-dominant hand or used to using your non-dominant eye. My right eye has much weaker vision than my left eye (I wear eyeglasses), so as I said, I had to choose whether to use my better hand and worse eye or my worse hand and better eye to do archery (and I chose the former, as I usually do). However, you might decide to try using your non-dominant hand more often and you might become better at using that hand than you would be if you were not cross-dominant.

Sorry to be blunt but I will finish this later

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