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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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When our child started cutting, we bought her left handed scissors so that she had both at had and could try it out. Her left handed dad - who grew up in a country which had no left handed things - wasn't able to use the scissors. He can also not use a left handed guitar, he has played like a righty his whole life because a left handed guitar was unaffordable and "you need two hands to play the guitar anyway, duh".
Anyway, she's developing into a lefty, but no one is touching the scissors.
There's many old left handed guitar legends who play on a right handed guitar for that exact reason, jimi hendrix for example. Tho he flipped the guitar around and restrung it basically upside down.
I also never really understood why my picking hand is my right hand when I'm right handed, I feel like I'm way more dextrous with it which would help with fretting. But at this point it's what I'm used to I guess
Backward bycicle, SmarterEveryday.
I've done this with guitar on my early 20s. I'm righty and one day just decided to locked-in like Destin did to see what would happen. And like him it got to the point where something's flipped and I could strum open/barre chord comfortably but didn't get too far with melody though, picking hand is by miles much more awkward, orienting and holding the pick the right way is much more precise control than I thought. I could do decent enough legato to fool non-player.
Then I stopped for a week and it's just gone, I didn't become ambidextrous.