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[ZombiePlatypus]

Are there proven methods or exercises to do this? People seem to be able to type or play instruments with both hands. Can I hypothetically train myself to draw or sketch with both hands simultaneously?

 

[ComputerMKII]

Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ8ml7eENuI

(he's left-handed)

 

[umop_3pisdn]

You can gain equivalent degrees of dexterity with your non dominant hand but I don't think that you can 'become' ambidextrous. That might seem like a bit of a pedantic distinction though.

Taking up juggling would probably be good practice for that sort of thing, though.

 

[Dead Prince]

well i jerk off with either hands. does that make me ambidexterous?

 

[TOP SHOTTA]

AYE!!!! I have been wanting to do that forever. I try...

 

[Tan]

Yes, my mother was forced to. Weird, different times.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

yes. i primarily write with my left hand. i eat with both hands (spoon/fork with my right hand/chopsticks with my left). i throw with my right hand; i bat with my left.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Yes, my mother was forced to. Weird, different times.

My grandmother was forced to use her right hand.

I don't know if it's truly ambidextrous, but she's at like 95% there. Whatever she can do with one hand she can do with the other. Write, sew, you name it.

 

[Parch]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

yes. i primarily write with my left hand. i eat with both hands (spoon/fork with my right hand/chopsticks with my left). i throw with my right hand; i bat with my left.

I'm similar.

Write with left.
Drum right handed.
Swing bat, golf club, etc. right handed.
Wipe butt with right hand.
Eat with both hands.
I kick with and jump off my right foot.
When I used to skateboard, I used to push with my right foot but would ride with it in front as well. I think it's called "Mongo" (+ I ride goofy) and apparently it's rare/weird.

 

[Aeana]

My mother trained herself to use her right hand because she was shamed heavily for being left-handed by a lot of people while growing up, so I'd say yes.

 

[Dead Prince]

as far as writing goes. i'm right handed. sad thing is that it looks no different from left lol

 

[Fou-Lu]

I imagine so. I've always thought it to be really weird that I write with my right hand and do everything else lefty. (Except play guitar, I originally did that lefty but somehow when I picked up a guitar again it just felt wrong to do lefty)

 

[Rubbish King]

as far as writing goes. i'm right handed. sad thing is that it looks no different from left lol

Uhhhh


It kinda does

 

[Charles Alan Ratliff]

I masturbate with my left hand. One day, after using the wrong type of cleaner on a hardwood floor, I slipped while walking to the kitchen. I injured my left elbow, causing the area around it to swell up, and wasn't able to use that arm for a few weeks. One night, I tried masturbating with my right hand; it took a couple of hours or so, but I successfully finished. I trained myself and continuously got better with it.

I believe it is possible if you never give up.

 

[Regiruler]

Fully no, but you can learn it to the point that you have 90% effectiveness in your non-dominant hand.

 

[Norml]

This is one reason I'm glad to be a lefty.All the right handed things has made me semi ambidextrous I think drawing would be hard to pick up though.