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He did average, you did single.
In general, who has the advantage: Right or left-handed OH cubers?
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He did average, you did single.
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hdskull
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Yea, average is what counts.
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I think that ambidextrous OH cubing is by far the coolest.
rubikmaster
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Left-handed OH solvers
7 year bump ftw. I thought of making a new thread for this but I guess I'll just post here. I'm sure this has been discussed countless times already, but I want to hear your opinions.
I think left-handed (and ambidextrous) people who use left for OH have an advantage over other cubers and here's why:
1. Most people's solves contain many R and U face turns which are usually easier to do with your left hand, that's why there's more people who use their left hand for OH.
2. Left handed people are naturally more skilled with using their left hand so I think they could improve faster than right handed people who use left for OH.
Then again, I've only just started getting into OH solving so I wouldn't consider myself well informed. Feel free to share your opinions and arguments on why you would agree/disagree with me.
7 year bump ftw. I thought of making a new thread for this but I guess I'll just post here. I'm sure this has been discussed countless times already, but I want to hear your opinions.
I think left-handed (and ambidextrous) people who use left for OH have an advantage over other cubers and here's why:
1. Most people's solves contain many R and U face turns which are usually easier to do with your left hand, that's why there's more people who use their left hand for OH.
2. Left handed people are naturally more skilled with using their left hand so I think they could improve faster than right handed people who use left for OH.
Then again, I've only just started getting into OH solving so I wouldn't consider myself well informed. Feel free to share your opinions and arguments on why you would agree/disagree with me.
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That bump tho. I would agree with you, but I'm not very sure. I've been OH solving for about a month or two, but I don't think that my opinion matters that much then.
Tim Major
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I've used right hand for 6 years and I have no problems doing RU moves. I'm permanently rotated the whole solve. So your point #2 should mean right handed people who use right hand also have an advantage
Isaac Lai
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I don't think it makes a difference which had you use. While most people use their left hand, a fair number of right-handers are also good at OH.
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Berd
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I'm left handed and use my left hand for OH, the master race!
rubikmaster
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Yeah, I guess I agree with that. But with argument #1 I was making the assumption that it's generally easier to solve with your left hand rather than your right. So if #1 is correct and applies to everyone, lefties who solve with their left hand would have a slight advantage over righties who solve with their right hand.
shadowslice e
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Well, there's also the thing about which eye is dominant. In left handers this tends to be their left and vice versa. This could give a small advantage to the right handed cubers which could balance out the slight advantage lefties would have (unless their both right handed and left eyed in which case you're basically screwed
)However after the first month of OH all of these differences would probably be fairly balanced and evened out.
In fact, I might even go the opposite way and say that righties may have the advantage because most cubers proably become somewhat ambidextrous when it comes to cubing (this has somewhat happened with my piano playing as well as my cubing) so using their left hand for OH would not make too much of a difference (I, although being mostly right-handed, instictively use my left hand for OH)
I mean, if it did surely there would be many more OHers using their right hands?
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what's the point of ambidextrous OH
"hand neutral" decide which hand to use during inspection
"hand neutral" decide which hand to use during inspection
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Haven't read the whole thread, but to me the first thing that comes to mind is the fact that most of the OH OLL/PLL development, as well as OH tutorials for various things are geared towards lefty OH cubers, which I think is a pretty clear advantage for them.
shadowslice e
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how are they geared towards lefty cubers?
theROUXbiksCube
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1. Only if you prefer RU moves
2.then rightys that use Righty for OH should have the same advantage?
theROUXbiksCube
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Because most people use lefty therefore the algs are better suited for lefty solvers, similar to how CROP has so much extensions to it and or subsets that can be added to it because it's the most popular method, and it's been developed more because of more people using it
TheSquareOne
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I'm caught between this. I've recently started OH practice and I was torn between which hand to use:
I know my right hand is more dexterous: despite literally being in the name, I've used my right for everything from writing to flipping pages to contact juggling to texting. OH cubing would simply be another thing my right hand could do well.
Most algorithms involve R and U turns. I realise they can all be translated, but most lists of algorithms have a selection bias for which ones are show; RUR'U' being the main feature.
Since the majority of algorithms I've learnt focused on these turns, and since these turns are easier to do with my left hand, left it was! (Did I mention I hate learning more algorithms unnecessarily?)
That was my thought process. I realise other people's priorities may have been different.
To answer your original question I'd reckon left handers have the (very slight) advantage, simply due to the availability of sinister-entric resources.
I know my right hand is more dexterous: despite literally being in the name, I've used my right for everything from writing to flipping pages to contact juggling to texting. OH cubing would simply be another thing my right hand could do well.
Most algorithms involve R and U turns. I realise they can all be translated, but most lists of algorithms have a selection bias for which ones are show; RUR'U' being the main feature.
Since the majority of algorithms I've learnt focused on these turns, and since these turns are easier to do with my left hand, left it was! (Did I mention I hate learning more algorithms unnecessarily?)
That was my thought process. I realise other people's priorities may have been different.
To answer your original question I'd reckon left handers have the (very slight) advantage, simply due to the availability of sinister-entric resources.
nah I don't do that any more
I used to be hand neutral and decide which hand I liked the cross better for. But that wasn't really worth it, so I just use left
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