Hi everyone

I decided to put myself a little challenge. Through the years, I developped my left handedness wether it is with writing, shooting or mechanical tools. I even started and learned to draw with the left hand. Here is the result of something I did in 25 minutes. I wrote and did all the drawings with left hand. The pen I used is a 1927 Duofold Senior Lapis Lazuli flat top.



Any comments are welcome.

have a great week end.

regards

georges

Better than some I have seen who are natural lefties.

I'm impressed. I can't form even one recognisable letter with my left hand. It's absolutely useless for writing. However, I can use both hands when playing the piano, quite easily......how odd is that?

Best wishes with your left hand endeavours.

caliken

Developing hand-writing for your non-natural handwriting hand is very difficult. I'd say this is really good. I've tried to write left-handed, and though I've improved since I've started practising, I still need a lot more work I'd have to say.

Wow...excellent! I'm still using that gargantuan lined paper we used back in elementary schools for my left-hand penmanship practice sessions. Mine is not nearly as legible as yours, and I never thought to attempt to draw with my left-hand. I took an art course where we were not to look down on what we were drawing -- instead keeping our eyes forward on the object we were drawing or visualizing. I've found that this also works with my left-handed writing. I write passages from favorite poems or books, looking at the text that I'm copying instead of my hand moving across the paper, and my left-handed penmanship is always neater when I do this... Thanks for sharing.

C'est super Georges. I am left handed teaching myself how to write with my right hand and my right handed writing looks like it was done by someone in primary school.

Very nice Georges.

Having been forced (by an accident) to change, mid-life, from right handedness to left handedness, I am curious. What aspect of writing left handed did you find the most challenging?

I'll keep my opinion quite for now - I would like to see what you say.

Regards

Last May I started training my left hand to write due to arthritis in my right thumb joint. It was a struggle at first. I don't think I would have continued if writing with my right hand wasn't so painful. Anyway, I persisted - practicing for an hour or so every evening while watching TV.

This is going to be hard to explain, but for a long time it seemed like everything I wrote with my left hand had to be "translated." I was continually thinking about how I formed letters with my right hand and then "translating" this to my left hand. After several months, I had what I guess could be called a breakthrough. It happened quite suddenly. All of a sudden I was just writing with my left hand without having to think about how I would have done it with my right hand.

I know next to nothing about how the brain works, but I wonder if I didn't finally create some new pathways in my brain. I really enjoy writing with my left hand now. Although I've increased my left hand speed quite a bit, it's still slower than my right hand was. And, I don't know, maybe it will never develop the speed of my right hand. But it's certainly a pleasure to write without pain - and without having to "translate."

One of these days I'll get around to posting some writing samples showing my left-hand progress from last May until now.

Judybug

Better than I can do with my right. I am a very "dominant" lefty...

Hard getting the flex to perform in some of my nibs (as I'm an overwriter), but when attempting to write with my right hand, it's slow, painful, and illegible.

Perhaps writing very fast which took me time because you have to learn to make all letters legible.I learned to be left handed because I had an injury with my right elbow when I was young and so I decided to develop my left handedness. Aside that I try to exercise my left hand the most as possible with everything I can.