alt Hacker NewsIn fencing at least left handed fighters tend to get a bit further because there are so few of them they are a lot harder to play against. On a training night a left handed fencer might match up with 10 right handers while a right handed might only see one left hander!
It’s similar in other sports. Around 30% of top cricketers are left handed. It’s 40% for some leading countries.
The “hypothesis presumes that athletes in interactive sports are much more likely to play and practice against right-handed opponents. As a result, these athletes develop both greater familiarity and highly specific skills to anticipate the action outcomes of their right-handed opponents via attunement to crucial perceptual information”
Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7424046/