Is there a word for what i am?

Question

i know ambidextrous people can use both there hands equally but i cant. i can use both my hand for different things

some things i can do:

baseball: i can bat with both hands

hockey: left

golf: left

writing:mostly right but i can also do it with my left

brushing my teeth:both hands but i tend to do it with my right more

soccer:i can kick more accurately with my right but just as hard with my left

Guitar: left handed

skateborading:goofy

basically i dont do everything with either my right or left hand only but i also cant do everything with both my hands

so am i right handed, left handed, ambidextrous, or semi-ambidextrous?

Answer 1

My dad was like that.  He wrote with a pen with his left hand, but when he wrote on a chalkboard he used his right hand.  He had no trouble with right-handed tools like scissors and things.  

I was showing signs of left-handedness when I was just learning to write and my 1st grade teacher made me learn with my right hand.  She was probably the last generation of people who thought left-handedness was 'evil'.  (You know the word 'sinister' means 'left-handed'!)

I have just spent about 10 minutes searching the net for terms for different-handedness, but I found nothing.  Left to my own devices, I think I might call you 'differently abled' but that term means something else these days.  8^)

Answer 2

Actually, yes, I'm the same way, and I wondered that myself for a while. I write with my right, do swordplay with either, bat and pitch left-handed, etc. It's called being equipoised, which means 'lacking lateral dominance' or 'being neither left nor right-handed.' Which way you do things mostly just depends on which way you learn them- though once your motor skills develop, you'll naturally take to one way or the other based on what muscles the activity uses.

Semiambidextrous means you can do some things with either hand, and some with one hand in particular. You may actually qualify as semiambidextrous too, since you can write with both naturally- that's one thing I can't do. Ambidextrous means you can do everything with either hand, even if you first learn it with just one- I.E. If you learn to play guitar left-handed and you can pick up a right-handed guitar and play it just as well. That's one common misconception: Ambidextrous people usually *prefer* one hand even if they can do the same thing with the other.

Though in the end, it's just another example of a gray area with little definition.

Answer 3

I would consider you as ambidextrous!

Answer 4

well which ever is your writing hand is what you would be considered probably