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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.

Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 56 minutes ago

Either everyone knows how to compensate for a southpaw or everyone is a southpaw. Fencing is a lefty's game.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Only left-handed people are in their right mind

God this is so good

[–] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 38 minutes ago

Back when automated toll booths had baskets to throw coins in, I could easily pay tolls at around 45 mph.

EZ pass eventually became a thing, probably saved me from my own young stupidity.

[–] ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 11 points 1 hour ago

It can be beneficial for a lot of sports

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

We don't have to switch hands with our forks in order to pick up a knife.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

Why would you need to switch hands?

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

Forks are on the left for a reason.

[–] EmbarrassedDrum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Yes but good luck with scissors 😭😭😭 I fucking hate that thing

[–] waz@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

After 30+ years, I finally bought myself a nice pair of left handed scissors.

If I'm being honest, I'm so used to right handed ones, that the lefty ones feel wrong anyway.

[–] Sahi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Damm it now I realize why I feel too much uncomfortable with scizzor

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

From memory, we are statistically more likely to be geniuses. Unfortunately we are also equally as more likely to be clinically insane.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we're used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

When I play basketball, it gives a slight advantage in the beginning when opponents don’t know I’m a lefty because they automatically assume I shoot with my right.

Also, being able to naturally drive one handed in a left-hand drive car.

Training people in surgical techniques is way easier in lefties because most have been imitating right handed people so have some degree of ambidexterity. When you tell a right handed person to do precision movements with their left hand it fucks them up for a while.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Meanwhile those of us ambidextrous.............

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 53 minutes ago

We save money on potato peelers because the right handed people in the family use the other side of the blade and so it lasts twice as wrong.

Downside is right harders want to trade peelers with us not realizing that there are right handers in the family and so ours are dull on both sides.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

You get to call yourself widdershins.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Left handed people are superior beings

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

We are simply better than the rights

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

but it takes three lefties to get it right.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

See life from the side of not being the "norm".

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s a conversation starter when you see another leftie in the field.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago