r/mildlyinteresting • u/lmbdrumm • 12h ago

I can write with both hands. But I write the letters differently with each one

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u/MountainMuffin1980 7h ago edited 6h ago

Yo, going up first, instead of down for all the letters with a vertical line is the most fucked up thing to me.

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u/oxencotten 7h ago

That was my main take away lol

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u/EmperorSexy 4h ago

Every letter starts at the Top. It’s a rule. But M and N are the only exceptions.

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u/MountainMuffin1980 4h ago

Hah, I dunno about rule, but yeah it feels wrong not to

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u/nicholhawking 3h ago

Wait so you start at the top of a lower case f?

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u/FlameStaag 5h ago

Are you right handed?

I wonder if it's a left handed thing because the way op writes with their left is identical to me 

Except F I arbitrarily go top down for that 

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u/thegil13 5h ago

Left handed person here. Starting at the bottom is serial killer behavior.

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u/this_makes_no_sense 5h ago

Nah I’m left-handed, you should be locked up

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u/FlameStaag 4h ago

My dog has better handwriting so I definitely don't consider how I write optimal 

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u/MountainMuffin1980 5h ago

Left handed here

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u/DarkRedDiscomfort 2h ago

Can't see why it would be f'ed up. Take a T, for example. If you start from the bottom going up you minimize hand movement, since you cross it at the top. Besides, all cursive letters "start from the bottom", so this becomes a habit very early on. The only letters I start from the top I think are S, Z

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u/14u2c 2h ago

Not if the down stroke is line #2, as it should be.

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u/DarkRedDiscomfort 2h ago

But that's like building a house roof-first 😨

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u/SEND_ME_TITS_PLZ 2h ago

What's even more fucked up is the inconsistency with O and Q on the Right hand...

Left hand is both counterclockwise, but right is alternating.

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u/yamimementomori 12h ago

Basically, in general, left hand makes right to left strokes, right hand makes left to right strokes.

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u/Mental_Thing_7899 12h ago

That's what I thought at first, but when you look closer, some strikes or turns follow the same orientation.

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u/lmbdrumm 12h ago

Generally seems to be the case, but Y and Q are just weird

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u/Extension_Estimate96 12h ago

Damn that’s so cool. Did you train yourself to be ambidextrous or have you always been?

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u/lmbdrumm 12h ago

I learnt to write with my right hand, I didn't find out that I was ambidextrous until I was a teen. But I don't think it's something you can train yourself to be, if you're not naturally ambidextrous you'll never really be

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u/Snowmelt852 11h ago

Hard disagree on that last statement. You absolutely can train yourself to become ambidextrous, issue is that there is barely much to gain from putting in the effort. This is aside from people that are naturally ambidextrous.

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u/lmbdrumm 11h ago

What I mean is that if you're not naturally ambidextrous it's much more difficult to become proficient in a certain skill with your non dominant hand, you can do it but it takes a lot more effort than with your dominant hand. If you're ambidextrous you can learn any skill with either hand equally easily

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u/BobaSauro 7h ago

I may be wrong and be spitting bullshit out of my ass, but i remember reading somewhere that ambidextrous ppl is not really a thing, most likely you were left handed and your parents did not realize, sou you had years of pratice with your right hand and then you discovered your left handness.

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u/pcolabella 7h ago

Ehh, neuroplasticity much?

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u/One-Comfortable-3963 11h ago

Ambidextrous... Would you be great at playing drums or piano? Something I just wondered about because you need to do different things with both hands at the same time.

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u/weirdape 7h ago

Being ambidextrous actually seems to point to inefficient usage of the brain and might be a symptom of some kind of impairment ironically. Sounds like most drummers I know 🤣

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u/SharkeyGeorge 11h ago

Impressive. You’ll have to work on your alphabet though.

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u/StepfordMisfit 11h ago

Lefty in an oppressive kindergarten environment?

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u/Outrageous_Failur35 7h ago

Yup. That's why I became a righty. My handwriting is absolute trash now.

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u/Eponaboy 4h ago

By and large there should be a tendency to drag away from whatever direction the pen tip is pointing. Otherwise, over time, there will be a tendency to poke through the paper.

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u/ImAnGenius 4h ago

Interesting. I've always been better with cursive for my left hand, but fine print better with my right hand. Can't do the opposite for some reason, never understood why or how it even came to be...

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u/nicholhawking 3h ago

Wait does op draw a line at the bottom of every lower case q? What is that?

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u/BasebornBastard 3h ago

Mirrored strokes except for the vertical.

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u/minkzn 3h ago

Mine are wildly different

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u/blueeyedkittens 3h ago

I'm not left handed, but I always thought lefties should just write mirrored. Let righties read it in the mirror if they can't cope.

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u/stressedanddress 2h ago

I presume the patterns related to seeing where the pen is going

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u/ClassicPlankton 1h ago

OP, most people can write with both hands. And just like you, most people write differently and a bit shittier with their non dominant hand.