does being left handed change anything,

if your left handed change anything while cubing,

  • yes (and optionally why)

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • no (and optionally why)

    Votes: 11 50.0%
  • yes and it helps (and optionally why)

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • a mix of yes/no (and optionally why)

    Votes: 7 31.8%

  • Total voters
    22

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i recently thought about how i say a somewhat old video by jperm about pll algs, and i saw they we're all lefty algs, so i thought, does it change anything? im personally left handed and find righty algs easier then lefty, but maybe its harder for right handed people? so i made this thread, if you have any reasoning post down below,
 
Left Handed myself.
Humans are weird in general. I personally am right eye dominant, so intuitively I try to look at everything mostly with my right eye. That makes solving dominantly with my left hand difficult, despite the gain in dexterety, but makes Sq1 algorithms way less of a hassle.

In principle, due to most WCA puzzles being symmetrical in nature, there is no objective gain to be found. Which means all differences will come from the subjective human side.
For example, many(maybe even most) full ZBLL users actually mirror their algs, making the total algorithm count go down by 40(?) Percent. That is subjectively better for ZBLL and subjectively worse for PLL

There are Algorithm Mirroring tools but they are a hassle if you have to use them for every algorithm.
 
i recently thought about how i say a somewhat old video by jperm about pll algs, and i saw they we're all lefty algs, so i thought, does it change anything? im personally left handed and find righty algs easier then lefty, but maybe its harder for right handed people? so i made this thread, if you have any reasoning post down below,
The only thing that might change is that you might be better with left hand dominant algs.
 
I'm right handed but I assume left handed solvers just get really good at mirroring algs. A similar analogy is that by doing fmc, I've gotten really good at inverting algs
 
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