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I just realized that at all my jobs, all Software Architects(3)with which I have worked were left-handed. Do left handers visualize software design and abstraction more easily than us right handers?
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It is an intersting fact that left hander's use their right brain more readily than do right handers. This means that they are intuitively more likely to develop skills in areas such as 3-D visualisation, piloting (as in airplanes), and empathetic areas such as psychology, counselling, etc. So it's not surprising that you've seen Software Architects who are left handed, since it involves more right brain skills than just straight coding. I'm willing to bet they had an easier time learning Object Oriented Design than I did.
Douglas Jensen
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Funny thing is I'm right handed all the way, except when it comes to my southpaw stance boxing or goofy foot stance riding a snowboard or skateboard. Maybe I really want to be a lefty on the inside 
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Same as me: right handed but left footed.
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Doesn't count. Different part of the brain.
Douglas Jensen
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This poll could give double the data by reflecting how many men versus how many women participate. I read somewhere a few years ago (and it's maybe just an old theory that's been disproved already) that left-handed/right-handed may be somewhat influenced by a person's biological sex. It would be interesting to see the results of a 6-question poll of left-handed male, left-handed female, right-handed male, right-handed female, ambidextrous male, ambidextrous female.
--Taf
P.E.B.C.A.K.
(Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
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I'd be interested to see the results of such a poll. I don't believe that gender will influence the outcome much at all. As a palm reader I regularly saw left handers of both gender and to my cursory observation it appeared "even handed", so to speak, as in roughly equal on either side of the divide.
Douglas Jensen
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I take it to mean that us lefty's are more drawn to code 
I spose all the bugs in my code could be caused by, as my wife puts it, my "left handed thinking"...  . Hmm, how many lefty's in Microsoft  
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Where does the figure of 10% come from? Is that a bona fide statistic? My experience would push the number higher up to almost 25% (though I never actually documented the incidents - I just noticed what I saw when reading palms).
Douglas Jensen
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Hockey, that is.
Cheers,
Drew.
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I am right-handed, but play football (soccer) left-footed...
My grandad (paternal) could write two different sentences with both hands simultaneously. It was kinda creepy to watch....
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1. left side of keyboard, ro right?
2. mouse buttons switched?
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hi Peter
I never do this. But if I have a mouse whose left button is not working then I swap the buttons :p
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When I have used the mouse left handed I never switched the buttons.
John
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I'm left-handed, almost ambi, and I put the mouse on the left or right interchangeably, but more often on the left, and use it with the hand on whichever side it's on. I never switch buttons on the mouse - it isn't worth the hassle of using one button order on my own computer and a different one when I use other people's, or switching others' mouse button orders when using their computers.
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As most of people, right hand
This doesnt have to do with intelligence,e ven why I've heard stories about big people in history that were left handed
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hi
ostrovia wrote: I've heard stories about big people in history that were left handed
hmmmm interesting point :P
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I'm logged in, but cannot see how to participate in the survey. There used to be a link 'unanswered surveys' but that has vanished.......
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I'm hideously right handed.
I started juggling about 10 years ago which has started to improve the situation but i still can't do certain climbing moves with 1 hand leading or use a mouse left handed.
I've tried to train myself to use the left hand more but it's really totally lacking in dexterity (or should that be sinisterity?)
Russell
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It's actually not surprising the the left hand lacks the fine motor skills of the right hand. I'm the same. But you'll probably also notice the your left hand is much more useful for gross motor skills than your right hand. Like if you're climbing stairs, I'd be willing to bet that you use your left hand to steady yourself. Just doesn't feel as safe with the right hand, does it?
Doesn't really help the programmers, but then we've gone beyond coding in this discussion. 
Douglas Jensen
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sometimes it happens that I use the left hand (when reading articles, taking notes or when I m  beside computer  ... ).
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arms in a tragic accident. You'd be amazed at what you can use your feet for.
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I write left-handed but throw right handed, although with little practice I can switch for just about anything. So I put ambidextrous. Although, I like the idea of using the mouse left-handed and the keypad with the right. Too, bad my logitech trackball (which i love) is right handed.
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As a palm reader (in a previous life) I noticed that about 1 in 4 people were left handed. As for ambidextrous, I suspect that a number of people are describing themselves as ambidextrous when perhaps they are just multiskilled. It's unusual to be as capable as Mark (above). I would be interested to know, though, Mark, can you write as well right handed as you do left handed? Can you readily swap your knife and fork over when eating? And what about drawing and other fine motor skills? Truly ambidextrous people can readily swap left for right with little or no difference in skill level. The rest of us have left handed and right handed skills. I am a right hander when it comes to fine motor skills and a left hander when it comes to gross motor skills.
How would you rate yourself with this way of looking at it, Mark?
Douglas Jensen
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Honestly I do have my preferences depending on the task. But I've found that it isn't too difficult to switch. I usually eat left-handed, but when I have my one-year-old in my lap in my left arm I don't really have a problem using my right hand to eat. But I am more comfortable with my left. When I play basketball I shoot right handed, but when a defender comes up to block me (I'm not very tall, so this happens often) I switch over to my left hand mid-shot. In jr. high softball I would sometimes switch hit. But most of the time I bat right. When I write, I'm normally left-handed. But my right hand is almost as sloppy as my left .
As you put it, most of my gross motor skills (athletics), are right-handed and fine motor skills (writing, eating) are left-handed. Some things are because that's just the way I've always done it (writing, throwing), others are because I've had to adapt. (Scissors, mouse - both right).
With just about everything I am much more comfortable with my dominent side, and using the other hand feels awkward. But I've learned with very little practice I can become almost as proficient as the dominant hand. So I'd say it usually comes down to practice.
So am I officially ambidextrous? I don't know for a fact, but I hope that answers the question for you.
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