Your Handwriting With Your 'other Hand'

[Inga]

What does yours look like compared to the hand you usually write with?

Here's mine:

Wow I failed on my left hand....

[linearM]

It is rather fun trying to write with your non dominant hand. I sometimes draw with my left hand (I'm right handed) and find that sometimes I come up with very good drawings. It is almost as if your right hand has a memory and does things the same way all the time. I think it is a matter of forcing you to concentrate harder and results in a good drawing. It probably doesn't hurt to draw or write with the non dominant hand, we probably use parts of our brain we don't usually use.

 

Da Vinci was left handed and wrote backwards from right to left. Perhaps because he didn't drag his hand across wet ink. Some say it was to make it difficult to read his writing. I think it was the wet ink.

 

Here's my attempt, plus some backwards handwriting.

Edited October 12, 2014 by linearM

[inkstainedruth]

I've heard that some people who are ambidextrous do backward writing with their off hand (but if you're ambidextrous do you even HAVE a non-dominent hand?).

My husband was ambidextrous until he broke his left wrist in third grade (probably trying to do something sports-related). He said he drove teachers crazy because when he'd get tired with one hand he would just pick up the pencil with the other one and keep writing....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Inga]

Is it possible to sort of 'become' ambidextrous by practicing with your other hand enough or are people just born with the ability? It would be cool to be able to write well with my left hand...

[Zanshin]

He said he drove teachers crazy because when he'd get tired with one hand he would just pick up the pencil with the other one and keep writing...

 

 

I thought I was the only one to do that.

 

I'm right handed but for some reason always wrote and drew with my left hand. From about the age of 14 I taught myself to write with my right hand as well and I'd swap hands in class, using my left hand for the left page, right hand for the right.

 

My left hand always was messy and it's become even more so since I started to use my right, while my right has improved over the years. I still use my left for drawing though or if I have to write on a difficult surface, like a small notepad balanced in one hand. My left still has more fine control even though my left handwriting is atrocious.

[mirosc]

You know Chen Siyuan? Have fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1gpqr0kkA

[tinysnail]

I'll have to work on it...

 

http://38.media.tumblr.com/94b9a91ffb5dc0e341199329f818f217/tumblr_ndel0neqeg1qgziczo1_1280.jpg

[MusinkMan]

I will keep my efforts directed to my right hand until I get it like I want it. LOL!

[R F]

I am left-handed and after a little practice, in April, the difference is that you can see.

[Newjelan]

I'm largely left handed although i do many things right handed and play tennis with either hand. That is, I move the racket to the hand positioned for the best shot.

 

I write left-handed, although at school, I would unknowingly write right handed on the blackboard/whiteboard and if space was tight at my desk I would sometimes write right handed on the right-hand page of my nite book. However, I haven't written with my right hand for 40years and just gave it a try.

 

Writing at the same speed, the left handed writing is much better but I was pleasantly surprised with my right-handed writing. What fascinated me was the change in style - left handed is more upright and more broadly spaced, while the right handed sample has a noticeable forward slant and letters are more elongated, although not larger. I'd post pics. but I'm on the iPad and can never seem to work out how to get them to appear in my posts.