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didibusyesterday at 10:53 PM1 replyview on HN

> why handed vs ambidextrous

Did it even explain that? I'm ambidextrous, I have no handedness bias, so whichever I pick up to first learn something is the hand I use. So I'm a mix of left-handed and right-handed depending on the task. And yet I didn't really understand why that's odd because of my bipedalism?


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p00dlestoday at 12:20 AM

There is also a category of people who are “mixed-handed”, who have a strong handedness preference for a given task, but which hand one prefers varies based on the task. I didn’t know about this category until recently, but it describes my personal experience.

Mildly informative Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance

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