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  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    28 minutes ago

    When fencing, left-handed people have the significant advantage of being able to dramatically switch their rapier from their right hand to their left hand, mid-combat, and announce that they are not really right-handed.

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      2 hours ago

      It’s true of all combat sports, and, to some degree, any other sport in which you go face to face with your opponent.

      And although it might be true that at the very very top levels people both learn to be more ambidextrous (so that there’s less of a mismatch between sides whether right or left handed) and are more experienced/skilled at dealing with left handed opponents, the early years of learning the sport will weed out fewer left handed people so that the top levels have more left handed people.

  • webpack@ani.social
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    in fencing left handed people have a slight advantage, since left handed people are used to fighting right handed people but righties aren’t used to fencing lefties. other than that it’s probably worse since it looks like writing left handed is more annoying

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.

    Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.

  • Jimmybander@champserver.net
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    5 hours ago

    You are born an outsider. This allows you to understand the world more clearly at a younger age. Not sure what advantages this may give but it’s reality.

  • k_rol@lemmy.ca
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    My gf thinks lefties are hot. I don’t understand but I got an advantage there 🤷‍♂️

  • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world
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    In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it’s a plus.

    After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they’re part of a class doing pencil and paper time.

  • waz@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Back when automated toll booths had baskets to throw coins in, I could easily pay tolls at around 45 mph.

    EZ pass eventually became a thing, probably saved me from my own young stupidity.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we’re used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.