Hand Symmetric Cubing

[TheMachanga]

I'm left handed, and I'm right hand dominant cubing wise.

I still do some left handed f2l when needed, and used to do anti-sune with left hand before I learned that anti sune can be done with right hand by just doing sune backwards.

My left handed R perm doesn't use L's but r and r' 's

 

[Cool Frog]

2.02, 3.00, 2.96, 2.79, 2.63 = 2.79
Left

2.19, 2.58, 2.46, 1.96, 2.68=2.41
Right


I have trouble with D2 and D2'

 

[emolover]

I was doing some left and right sexies earlier and was averaging 1.2ish for right handed and 2.6ish for left handed... Got I suck at L.

 

[immortalchaos29]

I am really jealous of ambidextrous cubers.

Right sexy: 2.55
Left: 4.20

desperately need to get better at both though. ><

 

[tx789]

I'm left handed and use right handbut f2l has a lot of l turns. LL is right mostly

 

[Skullush]

Left: 2.44
Right: 2.44

O_O
I'm not even kidding.

 

[DaKrazedKyubizt]

2H: Right-hand dominant, but working on adding more ambidexterity. For F2L, I definitely use a good amount of left-hand during solves, but finger tricks aren't as smooth. They haven't been improving much recently, probably because I need to do more slow solves to solidify my left-handed finger tricks. For LL, I just recently began trying to relearn all my OLLs and PLLs in my left hand. I already have some of them down. I have two of the G-perms down left-handed (the ones that start with R2, or in this case, L2), which is actually proving VERY useful in some solves, even though I haven't perfected them. I haven't bothered with the other two since they wouldn't be quite as useful. I'm also learning to do F2LL left-handed... and right-handed for that matter. I don't know all the algorithms yet.

If anyone cares to know:

For OH, I use both hands, but my left-hand does a better job. I've always used my left hand, but I started using my right hand about half a year ago. It's improved a ton. I average 19-21 with left hand, and 25-30 with my right hand. (For right hand, I usually start around 25, then my hand gets tired, which results in 30-second solves...)

LH OH has actually helped my cubing overall in terms of equalizing hand strength. In terms of finger tricks, it's mainly helped with the right index finger push-back U' (finger moves from FRU to RUB), which I use for left-handed F-perms and a few other things.

What's really cool is when you find out how many little things you do unintentionally right-handed when learning to do LL algorithms left-handed. You don't even realize where your fingers are moving, which is why some algorithms fail the first several times left-handed, for example, [r U r'][R U R' U'][r U' r']. I was learning how to do this algorithms left-handed earlier today. I couldn't figure out what was going wrong until i compared it with my right-hand version. I kept trying to just tilt my fingertips back out of the way at first, but it turns out, I actually lift and move my fingers in the back completely out of the way of the middle layer in my right-handed version of the OLL, but I didn't even realize it at the time.... Idk, at least I thought it was pretty cool. Like, straight up, my left-hand is so ridiculously uncoordinated. It's so fascinating.

 

[Dacuba]

I'm surprised that there are people havng trouble with D2 and D2'. I do them both with a ring-middle finger double trigger, and they are as fast as my U2 and U2'

 

[SenileGenXer]

Cross and F2L all ambidextrous. Super ambidextrous. Whatever I need to do with whatever hand needs to do it. Feels very good and I'm awesome at f2l. It's a joy.

My OLL and PLL pretty traditional with some god moves. The traditional part is my problem. Right handed and finger tricking aren't working well for me. I'm too right dominant. It's fast and strong but if the right hand is the driver turning the right side it also wants to turn the up face - the back face -the front- face- the down primes. The left hand is mostly holding the cube and getting out of the way. If I try to get the left doing the up or back or front face while the right is the driver I end up not coordinating well.

One handed is right because it knows the moves. I can do OH left for the first two layers but I get to last layer the left hand doesn't know enough to complete.

I want to add more left handed stuff. Left handed algs and ambidextrous god moves feel very good. If my left hand is the driver the right can coordinate with it well and do the up, down, back, front, right. Some stuff I've taught myself to do with either hand. Back when I was 4-look last layer I got some speed by teaching my self to do either u-perm with either hand. Wherever hand the u-perm fell closest to that hand gets to do it in whatever direction it needs to be solved. I still have that. The right is just stronger and can do it with a middle flip involved. My A-perm b is a left handed mirror of a right handed A-perm a. It's great to put the headlights in back and move them to wherever side they need to go. It felt like I didn't have to learn a new alg. I'm looking for a similar system for G's and R-s. Put the headlights in back and do whatever you need to do with whatever hand. It would mean you would have one alg and it's mirror for the R's and two algs and their mirrors for G's.

Is there a good place to see a left handed cuber who is also a good teacher and his algs? Is there a left handed bad mephisto?

 

[Joël]

I am right handed. I do OHwith left hand.

For 2H, there are just some things the left hand is good at, and some things the right hand is good at. Finding good fingertricks is usually about finding a way to let the two hands cooperate, and let them do what they are good at. As a result, there are some algorithms I actually prefer to do with LU moves, like sunes (but this is mainly because it involves some moves with the right hand that the left hand can't do.. Like pushing U' with right index and U2). Also, my left R perm is faster then my right R perm. Some algs, I just don't like with left, like F' L' U' L U L' U' L U F. For those, I usually try to find a nice way to let the right hand do more work, in this case b' U'R'UR U'R'UR b.

Anyway, I am definately not ambidexterous, and my right hand is dominant.

 

[cubersmith]

My right is still dominant over my left, but I think I'm starting to use my left hand more.

 

[already1329]

I'm left handed, but I mostly use my right hand. I'm very slow with my left hand.

 

[MattMcConaha]

Right hand is dominant in a solve for me, but since I'm too lazy to learn algs there are a lot of mirrors where I end up using my left.
During F2L, anything goes. Neither is dominant. But during OLL and PLL I prefer when I get the right handers.

Also, I do OH left handed.

 

[Iggy]

It really depends. On 3x3, I use my right hand more but use my left for M2s and sometimes U2s. For 4x4 center-solving, I automatically use my left hand more for some reason. Most algs I use are right-handed though.

 

[ThtDarnNeighbor]

i use right hand for like r turns
but i use left for u2

 

[Bindedsa]

What is the best way to improve left handed turning. I've tried driliing algs, but I just end up doing wide r moves without thinking about it.

 

[TDM]

What is the best way to improve left handed turning. I've tried driliing algs, but I just end up doing wide r moves without thinking about it.

Have you tried 2-gen solving?

 

[Bindedsa]

Have you tried 2-gen solving?

I just tried it, my left turning is absolutely terrible, I'm going to need to fix this,

 

[DizzypheasantZZ]

Learn ZZ. If you are forced to use L turns, you will get better at it.

 

[xchippy]

I think using one hand over another is better because then you get more practice with it. And you don't need your left hand to be that great because you'll never use like left handed U perms or anything like that.