Is it true that left-handed are cleverer ?

Answer 1

I'd like to think so--I do believe that our brain is "wired" differently than righties. Left-handed people are forced to be more ambidexterous than righties because we live in world designed for right-handed people. Everything from keys and door handles to simple everyday tools and gadgets are built to function for right-handed people, and we have to adapt to use them "backwards" or with our less dominant hand. This action creates different (and perhaps more) brain synapses between the two brain hemispheres. It's something about the left-brain functions vs right-brain functions and crossing the midline and all that--someone who has studied brain research may be able to explain the theory better. I can just tell you from my experience as a left-handed person in a right-handed world.

There are things that occur to me that others seem to find remarkable, while I am incredibly dense at other times about supposedly simple mechanics and technology and even common sense. I KNOW it has affected my eye-hand coordination, especially for sports that require timing and aim--it takes me a split second longer to react and decide which hand or foot to use (which is usually too late to be successful). But sports and activities that involve balance and the whole body or both hands I seem to have a natural ability for (snowskiing, rollerblading, piano, typing.) I think I have developed some brain "shortcuts" in memory and language skills. I pretty much learned to read on my own at a very young age just from being read to by my parents, and spelling and vocabulary have always come easy to me--it's lilke I can recall a mental picture of the word if I've seen it or heard it used before and remember what it looks like on paper or how it was used in a sentence. Others have told me that they don't experience this. I've also always had a vivid imagination and ability to think "outside the box". I think I have probably lost some of this as I've gotten older and gotten more adapted to/less challenged by functioning in a right-hand world.

I don't know if this makes me officially "cleverer", or if it's just that I (and other left-handers) approach problems differently, because our differently-wired brains force us to.

Answer 2

Could be. We are forced to deal with right handed stuff all the time and that forces you to think about little details and how to solve problems. And for all the stuff about there being no difference in groups/genders that's just not true. As an example most women do better than men in multitasking where men are much better focusing on single tasks.

Answer 3

Well, of course! We are smarter than the rest of the world for not using the same hand. ;) We use a different part of our brains, the more creative side, that it what would cause the "cleverness."

Answer 4

if that is the case then everybody will teach their child to be left handed. dont be a left handed cleverer..

Answer 5

Not true my older sister is left-handed and Im smarter than her It's a lie.Well I have to recognise she is very creative on the kitchen a plase that gives me night mares other than that Im way smarter.

Answer 6

I sure hope so, because my 5 yr old is left handed... Oh and she has been reading for the past 2 years.

Answer 7

hmm. most of the left-handed people i know are fast learners. im not sure about cleverer.. but i find them to be more logical and more of a fast learner.

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Answer 8

I hope it's true. I do notice that I have a very good memory and people tell me that I have a good memory, also. I don't know if that has anything to do with my left-handedness, though.

Answer 9

It would be logical since left-handedness shows a stronger right brain lobe, which is where creativity arises.

Answer 10

yup. we like to think outside the box and the typical makeup of non-conformist like myself are left handed...