Write With Your Other Hand...

[GClef]

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[torstar]

As a lefty I was happy to find that I can write script and numbers with my right hand, but only on chalk/white boards. Attempts to move this to the small motor skills for pen and paper have not been encouraging for the 5 hours total in 4 decades.

 

Why are you trying to learn this? Are you writing under or over the ink?

[GClef]

As a lefty I was happy to find that I can write script and numbers with my right hand, but only on chalk/white boards. Attempts to move this to the small motor skills for pen and paper have not been encouraging for the 5 hours total in 4 decades.

 

Why are you trying to learn this? Are you writing under or over the ink?

 

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/photobucket-14562-1336404718273.jpg

[torstar]

Looks great!!!

 

Under is best.

 

I'll save my other 356 questions and pdf them to you...

[jbb]

I practice writing with my left hand too. Even after a few years it's still quite a challenge.... I have to think very, very hard when I'm doing it. I figure it's helping the other side of my brain somehow.

Edited May 7, 2012 by jbb

[alexander_k]

This is something I've tried many times in my life and not without persevering. Unfortunately, it never progressed far enough to become really usable. So, I came to the conclusion that it was too hard either for me personally or for the whole species. Thankfully, there are other things I managed to learn to do with my left hand, e.g. using the computer mouse. I hope things go better with you.

[torstar]

are you wannabee lefties able to write on chalk/white boards with the sinister hand?

[Zanshin]

As a lefty I was happy to find that I can write script and numbers with my right hand, but only on chalk/white boards.

 

That's interesting. I'm right handed but always wrote with my left. I discovered at school that I could quite easily write on a blackboard with my right hand so decided to teach myself to write with my right on paper as well. From about the age of 14 I alternated hands, using whichever hand happened to pick up the pen, or swapping hands to use my left for a left side page of my work book and right for the right hand page.

 

Now, my right hand is far better than my left, although I still have better precise control with my left, so for drawing or writing on difficult surfaces, eg a small notepad balanced on my hand or knee, my left is still better.

 

I always wrote under with my left hand as well. I could never understand the need to curl your hand over the top as you wrote.

[Tiffanyhenschel]

When I was in college, I had a class that was so boring I took notes with my left hand instead of my right. The extra attention required helped me stay awake. I actually got pretty good by the end of the semester.

 

GClef, let's see some flex with that left hand!

[torstar]

As a lefty I was happy to find that I can write script and numbers with my right hand, but only on chalk/white boards.

 

That's interesting. I'm right handed but always wrote with my left. I discovered at school that I could quite easily write on a blackboard with my right hand so decided to teach myself to write with my right on paper as well. From about the age of 14 I alternated hands, using whichever hand happened to pick up the pen, or swapping hands to use my left for a left side page of my work book and right for the right hand page.

 

Now, my right hand is far better than my left, although I still have better precise control with my left, so for drawing or writing on difficult surfaces, eg a small notepad balanced on my hand or knee, my left is still better.

 

I always wrote under with my left hand as well. I could never understand the need to curl your hand over the top as you wrote.

 

 

 

At one point i was tutoring in high school writing a separate math equation on the board with each hand

 

and mirror image script starting at one point and moving the hands further apart, the left in reverse

 

would probably cause me a brain seizure if i tried either again at my advanced age

[GClef]

When I was in college, I had a class that was so boring I took notes with my left hand instead of my right. The extra attention required helped me stay awake. I actually got pretty good by the end of the semester.

 

GClef, let's see some flex with that left hand!

 

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/photobucket-37864-1336417108882.jpg

[torstar]

Can GClef write musical notation with the left hand?

[smk]

This is really cool.

 

I did a few practice sheets practicing Palmer style script with my left hand. It came out better than I expected in the beginning but progress was not as rapid as I would've liked. I got bored with it after a month of somewhat irregular practice.

 

Your thread makes me want to give it another go :-)

 

Salman

[GClef]

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[andybiotic]

[GClef]

 

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[andybiotic]

 

:roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho:

[caliken]

I know that I'm out of line here...but why would you want to do that?

 

I'm genuinely baffled by this. Surely, it's hard enough making improvements to your best handwriting, without increasing the difficulty....what's the point?

 

The samples on this thread, look as though they were written by anthropoid primates wearing blindfolds!!

 

Ken

Edited May 8, 2012 by caliken

[andybiotic]

 

The samples on this thread, look as though they were written by anthropoid primates wearing blindfolds!!

 

Ken

 

 

and they are! :roflmho:

 

Its fun re-learning how to write again!

 

There are many things in life that are quite pointless, but we do it anyway! There is no use for calligraphy in many of our regular lives (not including you of course, Ken!) but we learn it anyway because it is fun and we enjoy it!

Edited May 8, 2012 by andybiotic

[GClef]

 

The samples on this thread, look as though they were written by anthropoid primates wearing blindfolds!!

 

Ken

 

 

and they are! :roflmho:

 

Its fun re-learning how to write again!

 

There are many things in life that are quite pointless, but we do it anyway! There is no use for calligraphy in many of our regular lives (not including you of course, Ken!) but we learn it anyway because it is fun and we enjoy it!

 

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/photobucket-31627-1336486060353.jpg