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[Castlecliff]

Right. I was whacked with a twelve meter long wooden rule as a child when trying to print with my left hand.

[Hanslanda]

Right dominant but I can print legible writing with my left if necessary.

[scriver]

I'm right handed, but I need both hands to hold back my to make awful masturbation jokes.

[Frumple]

Right. I was whacked with a twelve meter long wooden rule as a child when trying to print with my left hand.

... a roughly thirty six foot long ruler? Were you writing outside or just in a really big room?

[methylatedspirit]

Now that I think of it, 12 meters? 1200 centimeters? A ruler the length of 125 80 15cm rulers put together? How'd that thing not snap in half under its own weight? Longest ruler I've seen is just 1 meter long.

[scriver]

Most rulers are at least 1.80m in my country

[methylatedspirit]

Hold on, 1.80m? What is the need for something that long? I'm shorter than your country's rulers, if that's the case.

[Hanslanda]

This is the best series of miscommunications and deadpan jokes I've seen in awhile.

[scriver]

We use rulers that long to rule whether or not our rulers are longer or shorter than the average length of rulers

[methylatedspirit]

That explains the strange number. You guys apparently take every damned ruler in the world, you measure them, then you plug them into this computer, I guess, then it spits out 1.8m as an answer. Every ruler, including the ones built for dick-measuring contests, else I don't know you got anything more than 1m as the average.

[Max™]

No yardsticks, no rulers, no measuring tapes.

Obligatory: my dick measuring ruler is so big it's behind you.

I am slightly baffled by comments about handwriting, I don't get the sense that I'm vastly younger than most of you folks so I am confused why any of you have any reason to actually write anything beyond fucking block print or occasionally legible chickenscratch in a pinch.

I juggle and drum and do a lot of freehand woodcarving, there are lots of things I can do well right or left handed. *suggestive eyebrow waggling intensifies until the missus hits me with a chair*

Writing is not something I could realistically pick out a superior limb to use, I could probably write as legibly with my toes at this point as I could with either hand, it is a skill I am never going to use again and those chunks of brain storage were replaced with shit that's actually useful like being able to freehand a circle, draw a straight line over a foot or more of rough material, or eyeball a 30, 45, or 90 degree angle.

[methylatedspirit]

In my case, I'm still in school, so I have no choice but to use my garbage handwriting.
Also, I've developed a liking for math, and I don't know of any note-taking apps that support mathematical notation. Plus, I scribble my ideas on paper to find some kind of exploitable pattern, a thing that I can work with to get one step closer to a solution. That, or it goes completely off the rails, and I end up somewhere unexpected. Same difference.
Simply put, I'm just more used to writing on paper. My "creative process", as it is, is at its best when scribbling on paper.

I can't draw to save my life, so I chose something else to screw around in.

[Frumple]

Depends on what you mean by mathematical notation, but most spreadsheet programs I'm aware of can manage one way or another. Personally have found it pretty helpful over the years, since setting up anything particularly complicated with functions and whatnot means you both have to be able to break your problem down to its component parts and you can subsequently trivially see what happens when you fiddle with the numbers. S'good stuff.

Pretty sure there's more specialized software out there, too. Field of mathematics is way too big and way too intertwined with software development for there not to be, really.

... still no answer for what hand of skill actually means, though. I'm not voting until I know what I'm voting on

[Max™]

Computers and shit like swype keyboards are really amazingly good at interpreting strokes, you can totally justify a mathermatical train of thought type of flow if you want without needing to be anywhere near a piece of paper these days.

[Magistrum]

Ironically, while I am right-handed normally I become left-handed when signing in LIBRAS (Brazilian sign language / LÍngua BRAsileira de Sinais). Or what little I know of the language anyway.

Apparently this is pretty common.

Hey, I'm learning LIBRAS right now too!

I still stand by my theory that people all learn trough the TvInês videos and get used to copy the signals inverted.