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You know this has always confused the fuck out of me. You are going around a circle, how is there left and right? There is up-and-left, down-and-left, either way is left. If I am starting on the right of the circle (assuming I'm looking at it) which way is right? Up or down?
Imagine it like a car steering wheel.
You'd say turning the wheel to the right turns the car right.
Think of it like this. Like your hand is holding on the top of the steering wheel.
ok but what is behind this picture? I see fur and old matted flesh? a paw with no nails or an old dogs snout?!?!
It's better to not ask questions sometimes.
backs away slowly
The starting point is on the top.
Clockwise = Righty
Or imagine a bottle cap instead of a screw... Muscle memory kicks in.
Thank you! Clockwise looking down at a bottlecap makes sense!
This has always annoyed me too. I know why it works, but it's clockwise and counter-(or anti-)clockwise. If you were turning from the bottom, left and right are mixed up. Maybe it's just too hard to come up with a phrase using those terms?
Clockwise=lockwise
I always think about the direction that the top of the circle turns to apply left or right rotation, though I usually use muscle memory.
If it was a wheel, which way would it roll if you turned it like that?
It's the top part. So if you imagine a little dot at the top (12h) position it would move to the right/clockwise or left/anti-clockwise
Yeah, but once you get one quarter of a rotation through your dot is now moving left.
But the top is still moving right
Use right hand thumb rule. There is no right, there is no left, there is no clockwise or anticlockwise. All of them depend on the way you looks. Rught hand thumb rule fixes it for humans